Encore Personnel buys Response Recruitment Solutions

Specialist blue-collar worker supplier Encore Personnel has bought food and horticulture specialist Response Recruitment Solutions for an undisclosed sum.
Mon, 12 Jan 2015Specialist blue-collar worker supplier Encore Personnel has bought food and horticulture specialist Response Recruitment Solutions for an undisclosed sum.

Leicester-based Encore announced in a statement this morning [12 January] it had acquired “the whole of the goodwill and business” of Spalding, Lincolnshire-based Response Recruitment Solutions.

An Encore spokeswoman told Recruiter the Response Recruitment business would, over the next three months, rebrand as Encore as part of the integration.

Encore’s statement said the acquisition would increase its “share of the temporary recruitment marketplace”.

In the same statement, Encore managing director Greg Latham said organic growth was the “primary driver” of the company’s strategy.

He went on to say the business would “continue to acquire targeted, strategic and ‘fill-in’ businesses to add to our blue-collar specialist offerings to best support our customers’ needs”.

According to the statement, Encore places more than 3,500 temporary workers a week from its network of 21 divisions throughout the UK.

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