Our A Level and GCSE Business Studies students have been given an incredible opportunity to learn about financial trading on a global scale.

A dozen students have been invited to take part in a question and answer session with members of Associated British Foods plc (ABF) Utilities Steering Group.

ABF is an international food, ingredients and retail group that has sales of £12.8bn, 124,000 employees and operations in 48 countries across Europe, southern Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia and its Utilities Steering Group manages the strategy by which ABF energy contracts are traded.

Its Chief Executive is George Weston who is chairman of the Brooke Weston Trust to which our school belongs.

CBA Director of Business Alex Allan said: “We are delighted to take up this incredible opportunity. It is so rare for students to have the chance to meet with such important business people.

“It will be fantastic for our students who are seeking a more in depth knowledge of the world of work and economics.”

Year 13 Business Studies student Thomas Ewers said: “It will be a great opportunity for us to get an insight into what ABF does and to find out more about its links with our school.

“I’m particularly keen to learn about the methods and techniques it uses to predict the needs of the market.

“I’m really looking forward to the meeting.”

Fellow Year 13 student Steven Moore, who hopes to study economics at university, added: “It should be a great experience for us.  It will be very interesting to speak to such important business leaders. 

“I’m interested to find out about their influence on geo-political issues and I’m sure the event will enhance my understanding of Business Studies.”

ABF’s best known names include Silver Spoon, Jordans and Dorset cereals, Ryvita, Kingsmill, Patak’s, Twinings, Ovaltine and Primark.

The question and answer session will take place at CBA tomorrow.

(Our students are pictured above listening to a briefing about the meeting)