Website: www.asda.co.uk
Telephone No: 023 9284 1800

What does the company do?

Asda has 259 stores and 19 depots across the UK, employing approximately 150,000 employees. For the fifth successive year, Asda has been voted ‘Britain’s best value supermarket’ by a leading trade magazine. Its Portsmouth store can be found at The Bridge Shopping Centre, Somers Road North, Portsmouth.

What sort of jobs do they offer?

Job areas include: Sales Floor and Special Services, Backroom Area, Loss Prevention, Front End Area, Maintenance, Management, Office Associates

What career opportunities / training opportunities do they offer?

The Asda Academy promotes the development of 'traditional' skills, such as butchery, bakery and greengrocery. The excellence of this programme has been recognised with a National Training Award. All successful students receive a free diner and earn scrolls, special name badges and most importantly elite craftsman status.

Asda have invested £5million in 2003 into training and development.
This has included the opening of fifteen more ‘Stores of Learning’ whose primary aim is to provide colleagues with all of the technical/cultural knowledge necessary to deliver a good job. Management training opportunities are also available at these stores.

Why you want to work for this company?

In 2002 the Sunday Times named Asda as “Britain’s best company to work for”. In 2003, for the third year running, Asda was voted a top 10 UK Employer by the Sunday Times Employers Survey and scooped the prize for being the UK’s most flexible employer. Further benefits include the largest Colleague Share Ownership plan (CSOP) of its kind in Britain.