One of the UK’s market leaders in addressing unemployment and social exclusion has joined forces with Australia’s largest private sector provider of government funded employment services.

The purchase of Birmingham-based Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) by Employment Services Holdings will create an organisation with a combined workforce of over 1,400 staff operating from 138 sites across the UK and Australia.

This is a key step in a strategy which will see the group become a leading global employment services and training provider.

PPDG chief executive Colin Birchall described the move as a significant turning point in the growth of the company.
PPDG was established in 1998 by Pertemps chairman Tim Watts and Colin Birchall with a vision to regenerate local communities through employment.

Prins Ralston, managing director of ESH, said: “Our partnership with PPDG opens up significant growth opportunities for us as a group and is a key step in our journey to become a global employment services and training company.”