AGR Blue Ribbon goes to Accenture
Tuesday, 6 July 2010Accenture came away with the top prize at the 2010 AGR Awards, held at Newport's Celtic Manor resort on the evening of Monday 5th July. This year's awards were presented by ("Fabio Capello's son") Dominic Holland, who also managed to achieve the rare feat of being very funny in a recruitment context.
The night's first two awards began by recognising winners in the sub-100 and 100+ graduate sectors. (These were, respectively, Lovells (/in-house) and PricewaterhouseCoopers/ThirtyThree in the literature category, and Reckitt Benckiser/Euro RSCG Riley and Jaguar Land Rover/TMP in the graduate recruitment website category.) But the overall prizes went to Slaughter & May/SAS Design for literature and TeachFirst/Euro RSCG Riley + City & Law for best website.
Barclays Capital/Stafford Long were rewarded with a brace of awards, in the graduate recruitment & assessment and employer brand categories, while Accenture/Work Communications took the award for best integrated marketing campaign en route to the night's top prize. The final category award, for graduate development, went to Costain, who had already picked up two preliminary awards in the same field for graduate induction and strategic alignment.
Following the presentations and the awards dinner, the evening's entertainment continued with a ‘suspiciously Elvis' set and then the return - "by popular demand" - of the White Keys.
