FINANCIALS: Impellam revenues decrease 0.4% for 2013

Impellam, the outsourcing and staffing specialist company, saw global revenues fall by 0.4% to £1.206bn for the year-end 27 December 2013, compared with £1.211bn in 2012.
Thu, 27 Feb 2014Impellam, the outsourcing and staffing specialist company, saw global revenues fall by 0.4% to £1.206bn for the year-end 27 December 2013, compared with £1.211bn in 2012.

Group operating profit before non-recurring items was £28.6m, representing a £5m reduction on the previous year (2012: £33.6m).

UK revenues increased 1.4% to £772.5m compared with last year’s figure of £762.2m. Gross profit for the UK increased 1.8% from £102.6m last year, to £104.4m for 2013.

Julia Robertson, chief executive office, said: “I am pleased to report that our staffing businesses in the UK and North America have made consistent quarter-on-quarter progress in gradually improving markets.”

As Recruiter reported last week, Impellam expects to make a loss of £22.8m from two long-term contacts entered into by its managed service provider business Carlisle Support Services.

“These two contracts have had a serious impact on our overall financial performance in 2013 and a provision of £23m has been taken as an exceptional item,” confirmed Robertson.

Boorman: Facebook passwords at interview fears a ‘storm in a teacup’

In the wake of concerns about employers asking job applicants for Facebook passwords at interview, social media guru and founder of #Tru events, Bill Boorman, tells Recruiter that such cases are still rare.

27 March 2012

headline 1

In March last year a major extension of the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) code of conduct came into force.

27 March 2012

Finnish cloud firm Hammerkit opens office and creates jobs in Liverpool_2

Finnish cloud firm Hammerkit opens office and creates jobs in Liverpool
20 January 2012

Independent help with bright ideas_2

With expansion a top priority, e2v needed to standardise its recruitment processes and turned to RPO experts Independent

25 January 2012
Top