Airswift grows its global mobility
19 July 2016
Global mobility will be “the biggest growth area” for Airswift, the company recently formed by the merger of Air Energi and Swift Technical Resources, as it expands its core services, chief executive Peter Searle has told Recruiter.
Fri, 22 July 2016 | By DeeDee Doke
“We have the same engineers – we’re putting them into new industries with new clients,” Searle said. In the last three months, 27% of Airswift’s business has come from new target sectors, he pointed out.
With three corporate offices in Houston, Manchester and Singapore, and over 50 regional offices around the world, Airswift is well positioned to take on the global mobility market by eliminating at least one layer of relocation administration, Searle said.
Leading relocation companies typically work with locally based partners in the geographies they serve to arrange the further subcontracting of various services. Since Airswift already operates on the ground in so many global locations, the company can arrange for necessary local relocation services itself without a middleman, he explained.
Operating a global mobility business will help Airswift build “a far more robust business” overall, Searle said. And expansion into new sector markets will support the company’s old markets by keeping its contractors in work and on the books, he said.
FROM AUGUST'S RECRUITER MAGAZINE
Global mobility will be “the biggest growth area” for Airswift, the company recently formed by the merger of Air Energi and Swift Technical Resources, as it expands its core services, chief executive Peter Searle (right) has told Recruiter.
At the same time, as its previous mainstay sector upstream oil & gas struggles in the world economy, Airswift is also concentrating on putting the transferrable engineering skills of its over 6,000 contractors to work in other sectors, Searle said. Sectors such as process (including chemicals, pharmaceuticals), energy (midstream, downstream, nuclear, solar and wind) and infrastructure mark recent expansions for the Airswift portfolio, and are benefiting from injections of engineering talent that lacked work in upstream oil & gas because of the sector slowdown.“We have the same engineers – we’re putting them into new industries with new clients,” Searle said. In the last three months, 27% of Airswift’s business has come from new target sectors, he pointed out.
With three corporate offices in Houston, Manchester and Singapore, and over 50 regional offices around the world, Airswift is well positioned to take on the global mobility market by eliminating at least one layer of relocation administration, Searle said.
Leading relocation companies typically work with locally based partners in the geographies they serve to arrange the further subcontracting of various services. Since Airswift already operates on the ground in so many global locations, the company can arrange for necessary local relocation services itself without a middleman, he explained.
Operating a global mobility business will help Airswift build “a far more robust business” overall, Searle said. And expansion into new sector markets will support the company’s old markets by keeping its contractors in work and on the books, he said.
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