Royal Mail is a letters and packages business, covering the whole of the UK for our one-price-goes-anywhere universal service. Each working day we collect items directly from our 115,000 post boxes and around 12,000 Post Office® branches. These items pass through our network of more than 60 mail centres, 8 regional distribution centres and around 1,400 delivery offices. Then our fleet of around 30,000 red vehicles help us to deliver them to th ...

Back in the early 80s Richard Branson was probably best known for Virgin Records - the legendary record label that signed major names like the Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson and The Human League. In 1984, much to the horror of his directors, Richard announced to the world that a high quality, value for money airline would begin operating within three months. Three months, some licences, staff and an aircraft packed with celebrities later, Virgin A ...

Did you know we’ve been making delicious chocolates for almost a hundred years? In fact, our very first shop was opened in Sheffield by Joseph William Thornton, who handed the keys to his teenage sons Norman and Stanley and said: “Make this the best sweet shop in town!” Over the next few years, as Thorntons got a name for itself, we created a uniquely rich and chewy ‘special’ toffee, that became so popular it became the fuel of the city’s s ...

Whitbread PLC is the UK's largest hotel and restaurant company operating market-leading businesses in the budget hotels and restaurant sectors. Its brands include Premier Inn, Beefeater, Table Table, Brewers Fayre, Taybarns and Costa Coffee. Whitbread PLC employs over 33,000 people and serves 9 million customers every month in its 1,800 outlets across the UK.

Connecting the UK to the world and the world to the UK, the British Council is the UK's international cultural relations body. In an inter-dependent, turbulent world we believe that creating opportunities for people to understand each other better, work together more and learn from one another is crucial to building secure, more prosperous and sustainable futures for us all.

Metro is a publishing phenomenon. The paper was launched in March 1999 as a free, colour newspaper for morning commuters. At first it was only available in London, but now commuters in 16 of Britain's major cities can pick up a free copy of Metro as they travel to work in the morning. Every weekday morning some 1.3 million copies are distributed across the UK making Metro the world's largest free newspaper and the fourth biggest newspaper in the ...

ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK, broadcasting the most talked about television and making a major contribution to the UK’s culture, economy and communities. The ITV Network is made up of 15 regional licences, providing television to viewers across the UK. 11 of the licences in England and Wales are owned by ITV Plc, formed in 2004 following the merger of Carlton and Granada. SMG owns the two Scottish licences, Scot ...

CIPS exists to promote and develop high standards of professional skill, ability and integrity among all those engaged in purchasing and supply chain management. CIPS assists individuals, organisations and the profession as a whole. We are the leading body representing the field of purchasing and supply chain management. Established in 1932, we have grown to become the central reference for industry best practice and our code of conduct is the ...

Tigerspike is a personal media company with a specialism in mobile.With offices in Sydney, London and New York our global experience, combined with research and development from our innovation lab ensures Tikerspike solutions are creative and cutting edge.

Metropolitan Housing Partnership is a unique network of locally focused member organisations working together to provide housing, regeneration, community, care and support services.