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Empresaria buys Headway stake_2
Empresaria is to acquire 60% of Headway, a German recruitment company which supplies temporary staff in the personnel, logistics, engineering and industrial sectors.

Headway operates through 47 offices in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. The deal will cost Empresaria about £9.9m. It will raise £12m of cash by selling new shares.
STR move to new Portsmouth HQ _2

STR has moved to a new headquarters in Portsmouth in the Northarbour Industrial Estate. The office brings its 50 plus staff under one roof for the first time.



Manpower Professional Finance..._2

Manpower Professional Finance has appointed Emily Santos to its media and advertising division. She is responsible for part-qualified and qualified accountancy recruitment.

Greythorn plans global growth_2
Greythorn is hoping to have offices in locations as diverse as Boston, São Paulo and Dubai by the end of 2009, it was revealed last week.

Newly-promoted global HR director Anna Gibbons outlined the company's vision for the future at a meeting at its London headquarters on 4 June.

Gibbons told
Be strong from the inside out_2
More client companies are realising that to promote a healthy external image, they need to be strong internally.

That's the view of Ros Kindersley, managing director of marketing and communications recruiter JFL Search and Selection.

Kindersley contends that companies are becoming more aware of their self-image, particularly in sectors such as retail banking, which traditionally has
Tributes for 'gentleman' Hill_2
Services were held last week for Stephen Hill, founder and executive chairman of Hill McGlynn & Associates, who died on 12 June of a heart attack.
Need to innovate, not imitate_2
Milton Keynes-based Active Resourcing has introduced a lifetime guarantee for all permanent placements made at its standard fee.

After the initial rebate period, the client will get a lifetime guarantee of a 15% reduction of the cost of replacing that individual, however long they remain in the job.

Managing director Paul Preston told Recruiter: "By offering a lifetime guara
Primary schools 'prefer women'_2
Education recruiters' experiences in placing teachers support the findings of a report by the Training and Development Agency, which revealed last week that men made up only 16% of primary school teachers.

Darryl Mydat, managing director at The London Teaching Pool, told Recruiter that though around
Temp? No, a flexible employee_2
Right4staff has changed the status of its temps, making them flexible employees, following the footsteps of other large agencies.

The change means they are guaranteed certain standards of employment such as a disciplinary procedure and notice periods.

Right4staff has also launched its first dedicated hospitality desk at its branch in Alfreton, Derbyshire.
Huxley talks up HR importance_2
HR is a significantly more skilled career than it was five years ago as a result of a more litigious society, according to Andy Simpson, who is heading up Huxley Associates' newly-launched HR division from the company's London office.

Simpson told Recruiter: "Over the past five years human r
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