Top food and drink firms for graduates

It is fourth in total on The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers​ list, behind PwC, educational charity Teach First and Deloitte.

The annual directory features Britain’s best-known and most successful graduate employers.

Produced for the first time in 1999, it is has become a widely-read graduate career directory at the UK’s leading universities.

The new 2014-2015 edition has been compiled from the results of face-to-face interviews conducted by High Fliers Research with 18,336 final-year students who graduated in the summer of 2014.

There were also places on the list for all the major UK retailers, as well as food manufacturers Mars and Unilever.

Alluring ​

But where did they place on the list and what do they offer graduates that is so alluring?

Click through our gallery to find out.

Meanwhile, later this month the Food Manufacture Group will award the Food Manufacturing Excellence Award for the Young Talent of the Year.

The new award celebrates achievement and potential of new industry entries at apprentice, technician and graduate level.