Matalan: ‘Apprenticeships help us build future specialists and leaders’
Digital Edition: Matalan: ‘Apprenticeships help us build future specialists and leaders’
By Aly Fadil
9 February 2026
In National Apprenticeship Week, Drapers hears from Aly Fadil, chief people officer at Matalan – which offers programmes ranging from buying and merchandising to customer service – about how the retailer leverages the opportunity of apprenticeships, as well as tackling the challenges involved.
No online subscription: This article requires a paid-for subscription to read it in full.
If you already have a subscription, please click here to sign in, or see below for how to set up your subscription today
Access to this article is for subscribers only
Exclusive subscription benefits
- Unlimited use of drapersonline.com
- Premium monthly magazine
- Early access to interactive digital edition
- Exclusive discounts to Drapers conferences
- Industry-leading reports
- Drapers’ market-leading buying guides
- Full access to the Drapers digital archive
- Exclusive subscriber-only content
Subscribe today
Here’s a full list of our subscriber benefits:
- Unlimited online content: exclusive news, interviews, expert comments and reports
- Full access to all Drapers Sustainable Fashion Week 2023 content
- Early access to our new interactive digital issues
- More than 57,000 articles in our online archive
- Breaking news alerts: be the first to read the news as it happens
- Get Drapers straight in your inbox with our curated newsletters
Register for guest access
- Registered users can read up to two articles a month, including the latest breaking news, via the Drapers website and newsletters
- This does not include access to subscriber-only content
Already have an account,
click here to sign in