UK: EG Group aims to create 32,000 jobs globally over five years

The Group has committed to increase average hourly pay and roll out proprietary brands and partner ones across its network, NTI sites and EG food service concessions at Asda locations.

EG Group has announced its plans to create more than 32,000 jobs globally over a five-year period. In the UK, the Group will deliver many of these jobs from rolling out its proprietary brands ‒ Cooplands and LEON ‒ across its forecourt network, new-to-industry (NTI) sites, and EG food service concessions at Asda locations.

To supplement this growth strategy, the company continues to enhance the pay and benefits colleagues receive and this month increased the average hourly pay to £10.05 for UK colleagues, including those at LEON, aged 18 and above. This follows two previous pay rises to over 10,000 UK colleagues in 2021, in recognition of the cost-of-living pressures they currently face.

“As EG continues to go from strength to strength, we will be creating a large number of new jobs over the coming years, particularly in our successful foodservice business ‒ which remains a significant growth opportunity globally. We are proud to be a business founded in Britain that invests in job creation worldwide, while focusing heavily on the training and development of colleagues,” said Mohsin Issa CBE and Zuber Issa CBE, co-founders and co-CEOs of EG Group.

It will also create a number of new jobs by accelerating openings for its existing third-party brand partners, notably Starbucks and KFC, including drive-thrus on the Group’s UK forecourts and on Asda carparks ‒ with these foodservice outlets operated by EG and its colleagues. The Group plans to add about 22,700 UK jobs between January 2022 and December 2026, including new roles, both highly skilled and entry level, at its head office in Blackburn, where it currently employs about 900.

Approximately 9,700 new jobs will also come from organic growth in EG’s nine additional markets: Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Australia and the United States of America over the same five-year period.