Companies - STAR Management Week 2023

ACT Commodities

ACT is the leading global provider of market-based sustainability solutions.

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.

Akzo Nobel – ICE

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

Allianz Consulting – ICE

Allianz Consulting is the internal consulting division of the Allianz Group. Based in Munich, Paris, Milan, Trivandrum, Pune, Singapore, and New York, our dedicated global teams of over 500 consultants share a joint vision: to be the consulting partner of choice for Allianz Group core segments, transforming the future of Allianz from within. We bring deep industrial and functional expertise to fulfill our clients' needs, ranging from strategy, market management, sales and distribution, IT, organization, claims and operations to central functions and Agile methodologies.

AlphaSights – ICE

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.

Amazon

About us: How often can you say that your work truly changes the world? You’ll say it often with Amazon. We strive to hire curious and talented minds from universities all around the globe. We have technical and non-technical career opportunities throughout Amazon for students from all backgrounds. We’re a global company comprising of unique…

BearingPoint – ICE

BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy with European roots and global reach. We offer consulting that combines strategy with technology, and combine entrepreneurship with a spirit of innovation.

Berenschot Group B.V.

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

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.

B&S

About us B&S exists to make premium consumer goods available to everyone, anywhere. By partnering up with the world’s premium consumer brands in beauty, liquors, personal care, food, health and consumer electronics we can serve millions of consumers daily – either directly or through our wholesaler and reseller partners. These activities are enabled and driven…

Calco Group B.V.

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.

Coolblue

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

Cost Engineering – ICE

At Cost Engineering, our purpose is to empower organizations to improve their project performance. Today’s complex projects require an integrated approach, and the total project management approach we are applying across our software and engineering consultancy solutions help people and organizations complete their projects on time and within budget, maximize capital investments and stay ahead of the competition.

Count & Cooper

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…

E.ON – ICE

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.

Eastman Chemical

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 – ICE

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.

Forward·Inc – ICE

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.

Gartner – ICE

Gartner is a provider of research and consulting services for businesses in the IT sector, working with organizations to develop technology strategies, plans and budgets, as well as select the right technologies for their operations.

Hilti

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

Hilti – ICE

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.

Hoogwegt

Hi! We’re Hoogwegt. We’re the world’s largest privately owned dairy ingredient provider. Founded in the Netherlands in 1965, we are an independent supplier of dairy products and ingredients, active in over 130 countries.

Huawei Technologies

Building a digital, intelligent world that really takes people further.

INNOPAY

We are consultants specialised in digital transactions. We help businesses and public institutions to create value in an era in which every digital interaction with, within and between organisations is becoming a trusted transaction.

Interfood Group

The Interfood Group is a privately-owned company and a leading global dairy supplier, facilitating the distribution of over 1.000.000 MT of dairy products per annum.

INVERTO – ICE

We are one of the most successful consultancies for procurement and supply chain management, a part of the Boston Consulting Group, and have worldwide operations employing over 400 people.

Jacobs Douwe Egberts

For more than 265 years, JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS is inspired by its belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea.

KPN

We build on trust, show guts and go for growth

Kraft Heinz

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.

L’Oreal

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.)

LucaNet – ICE

LucaNet is a global software provider for financial consolidation, planning, and reporting. We are dedicated to offering a reliable product, driven by a unique team of individuals with a deep understanding of the needs of finance professionals worldwide.

Ministerie van Financiën

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

Philips – ICE

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.

Prysmian Group – ICE

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.

PwC

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.

Rabo Investments

Rabo Investments is the equity investment arm of Rabobank, with c. EUR 2bn of assets under management. We invest in innovative growth companies and funds around the world, that are active in Food & Agri, Energy Transition, Healthcare, and Fintech.

Rituals – ICE

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.

Shell

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

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

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 – ICE

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.

TOPdesk

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 – ICE

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 – ICE

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.

Valcon

Valcon is a full-service provider that works at the intersection between consultancy, technology, data, advanced analytics and strategy.

WBCSD – ICE

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.