Participating companies

The adidas brand has a long history and deep-rooted connection with sport. Our purpose, ‘through sport, we have the power to change lives’, guides the way we run our company, how we work with our partners, how we create our products, and how we engage with our consumers. We will always strive to expand the limits of human possibilities, to include and unite people in sport, and to create a more sustainable world.

We make and sell Paint and are experts in making coatings. This is for the consumer and industrial markets.

AlphaSights is the global leader in knowledge on-demand. We connect investors and business leaders with the knowledge they need to succeed. Working from nine cities globally, our 1500+ colleagues provide round-the-clock coverage to the world’s top investment funds, consultancies, and Fortune 500s. Founded in 2008, AlphaSights is a fast-growing, founder-led company.

Regardless of industry, size or geography, we deliver solutions to help clients stay better informed, better advised and able to make better decisions.

Beiersdorf: the no. 1 skin care company, winning in the market together via CARE, SIMPLICITY, COURAGE and TRUST.

Berenschot is an independent consulting firm with more than 400 employees. With well-founded advice and smart solutions, we contribute to a progressive society. We have been doing this for more than eighty years. Everything we do is researched, substantiated and viewed from multiple perspectives.

Bisnez’ consultants and project managers support clients implementing change processes with advice, project and program management. What makes us unique is our close relationship as a team.

Brenntag is the world leader in the distribution of chemicals and ingredients. We play a central role in connecting customers and suppliers of the chemical industry. Our two global divisions, Brenntag Essentials and Brenntag Specialties, offer a full portfolio of industrial and specialty chemicals and ingredients.

We offer IT and Finance traineeships for young professionals who want to switch to another field. We train you, make a good match between you and one of our clients, and assist you with your first steps in IT or Finance.

Cargill, we are committed to helping the world thrive. From small family farms to global shipping lanes, Cargill works every day to implement new sustainable practices to reduce our impact on the planet and protect people.

Coolblue. The largest and most customer-friendly online retailer in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

Who are we? Change & innovation in the construction world are essential; there are increasing demands in terms of price, quality and costs. Those who want to develop must dare to change. Together with our partners, Count & Cooper takes its responsibility: we create new opportunities and make developments possible. We drive change; change that…

The E.ON Group is one of Europe's largest operators of energy networks and energy infrastructure and a provider of innovative customer solutions for approx. 48 million customers. Thus, we are decisively driving forward the energy transition in Europe and are committed to sustainability, climate protection, and the future of our planet.

Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day.

EF Education First is a global education company focusing on language, academic, cultural exchange, and educational travel programs. With a mission to open the world through education, EF was founded in 1965. In the following section, you will find descriptions of EF’s different businesses.

As Exact offers so many different products, we are organised into various teams, in which our employees work with a great deal of drive and satisfaction. To name a few, Sales is where those with commercial talents work their magic, Marketing is home to our marketing and communication gurus and Finance ensures that all the numbers add up. Our Technology team spends its days working on new and existing products and Customer Success ensures our customers get the right solutions. And as we continue to grow, we're always in need of new colleagues! Will you be the next to join us?

Forward·Inc (est. 2017) is an internationally operating non-profit organisation devoted to helping more than 100 million refugees worldwide pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. We do this by empowering them to launch, grow, fund, and sustain their own businesses. We offer free entrepreneurship education to more than 4,000 aspiring entrepreneurs on a yearly basis.

G-Star RAW (commonly called G-Star) is a Dutch designer clothing company, founded by Jos van Tilburg in Amsterdam in 1989. The brand specializes in making raw denim—an unwashed, untreated denim. G-Star is influenced by military clothing.

Hilti is a supplier of high end power tools, software solutions and engineering in the construction industry.

Hilti Corporation (Hilti Aktiengesellschaft or Hilti AG, also known as Hilti Group) is a Liechtensteiner multinational company that develops, manufactures, and markets products for the construction, building maintenance, energy and manufacturing industries, mainly to the professional end-user.

The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the world's largest food and beverage companies. We manufacture and market food and beverage products across the globe, including condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, and other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 iconic brands.

Kraft Heinz is a global food company with a delicious heritage. With iconic and emerging food and beverage brands around the world, we deliver the best taste, fun and quality to every meal table we touch. We’re on a mission to disrupt not only our own business, but the global food industry. A consumer obsession and unexpected partnerships fuel our progress as we drive innovation across every part of our company.

Triple A award is sustainability 7 years in a row, if you are daring, strategic and motivated join us at the number 1 beauty company worldwide (Ralph Lauren, Armani, Garnier, CeraVe, etc.)

The world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today

Contributing socially to various financial issues; that's what you do at the Ministry of Finance.

As a technology company, we – and our brand licensees – innovate for people with one consistent belief: there’s always a way to make life better.

We provide our customers with superior cable solutions based on state-of-the-art technology and consistent excellence in execution, ultimately delivering sustainable growth and profit. A strong reputation for performance and innovation helps us deliver sustainable growth and profit.

PUMA Benelux B.V., Sport has the power to transform and empower us. As one of the world’s leading sports brands, it’s only natural that we want to stand on the same playing field as the fastest athletes on the planet. To achieve that, the PUMA brand is based on the very values that make an excellent athlete.

At PwC, we want to contribute to trust in society and solving significant issues. We are a network of firms in 150+ countries with 300,000+ people. Our mission is to deliver quality in assurance, tax, and advisory services. In the Netherlands, more than 5,500 people work together at PwC.

At Rijk Zwaan, we develop vegetable varieties and sell the seeds produced from them globally. That puts us right at the start of the food chain, and means that we contribute to the health and well-being of people all over the world.

We are a global brand that was established in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2000. Today, Rituals operates in more than 1000 stores, 2700 shop-in-shops across 33 countries throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, as well as North and South America. Rituals is an omnichannel brand that operates within Retail, Wholesale, E-com and Travel Retail.

SeederDeBoer is a an organizational consultancy, located next to Amsterdam's central station. We guide our clients through complex changes in the healthcare, public and financial sector. We do not work with standard models, but we work with customization in which the customer's reality is key.

Shell is an international energy company with expertise in the exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of chemicals.

Sia Partners is a next generation management consulting firm and pioneer of Consulting 4.0, offering a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver exceptional value.

Tata Steel is without doubt one of the most challenging industrial employers in the Netherlands. Together with 10,000 colleagues, we work continuously on improvement. Every year, we invest hundreds of millions of euros in innovation of processes and products with high added value. In doing so, we improve our efficiency and reduce our costs. We want to make responsible steel, which is only possible with a healthy balance between the interests of people, the environment, the surroundings and the company.

The Social Hub (TSH) formerly known as The Student Hotel is a hybrid hospitality brand, offering spaces that combine student accommodation, hotel, extended stay rooms, co-working facilities, meeting and event spaces, restaurant, bars and gyms, all under one community and one roof.

Hi, we are TOPdesk, an international software and consultancy company! Moreover, we are one of the best employers in the Netherlands! Join the running lunch and get to know us.

Unilever Plc (Unilever) is a manufacturer and supplier of fast-moving consumer goods. The company's product portfolio comprises food products, beauty, and personal care products, beverages, home care products, vitamins, minerals, and supplements.

Uniqlo is a modern Japanese company that inspires the world to dress casually. Uniqlo has enjoyed strong growth by offering high-quality casual wear at reasonable prices based on its SPA (Specialty Store Retailer of Private Label Apparel) business model, which spans product design, manufacture, distribution and retail.

Van Oord is a global player in the field of Offshore Energie and Dredging & Dutch Infrastructure. We These 2 segments form our Business Units. Our mission "Create a better world for future generations, by marine ingenuity" makes us actively committed to sustainability and the energy transition.  We are an innovative partner for our clients and have been contributing to the infrastructure of tomorrow's world for over a hundred years.

VodafoneZiggo makes valuable connections, between people and for people. We are the driving force of the Dutch digitization, but also the builder of the network of the future. We use the power of technology to make society stronger.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is the premier global, CEO-led community of over 200 of the world’s leading sustainable businesses working collectively to accelerate the system transformations needed for a net zero, nature-positive, and more equitable future.