The acquisition will significantly expand the Sanderson Solutions group portfolio that already supports recruitment, MSP and RPO services in a number of sectors including insurance, banking and retail.

Outsource is a specialist in delivering technology and engineering recruitment for the UK defence industry, and supply chain and logistics among others.

The deal will mean that the combined group will have close to 4,000 workers under management across the UK, as well as over 500 colleagues around the world, and will ensure that all clients within the group will have the opportunity to benefit from a comprehensive suite of services to meet all of their talent acquisition needs.

Sanderson already operates across Europe, Asia and the US, and Outsource are positioned well to use this geographical reach to further develop opportunities with current clients and take existing UK MSP arrangements into Europe and the US.

This acquisition will continue the Sanderson strategy to look for opportunities in new sectors and geographies and follows the successful acquisitions of iKas International, Sopra Steria Recruitment and Highams in the last five years.

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