Industrial/Manufacturing

APPOINTMENTS: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Eames Consulting, Faststream Recruitment Group, Gi Group, Heidrick & Struggles, Oyster, Starfish Search, Sellick Partnership

Supplier, Your business 28 April 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Jobmatch Sweden, Matchtech, Meet Life Sciences, Right Management, Synergy

Your business, Your recruitment business 28 April 2025

Cobalt Recruitment appoints new UK managing director

Cobalt Recruitment has announced the appointment of Maria Sinclair as the new managing director of its UK operations.

Your recruitment business 25 April 2025

NEW TO THE MARKET: 14-18 APRIL 2025

This week’s new launches include: Busy Bee Recruitment, Deel

Supplier, Your business 14 April 2025

FINANCIALS: Staffline results exceed market expectations

Recruitment group Staffline has announced a strong performance for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Financials, Your recruitment business 8 April 2025

FINANCIALS: Gattaca bucks trend in first half of 2025

Engineering and infrastructure recruiter Gattaca has reported a “robust” financial performance for the first half of 2025.

Financials, Your recruitment business 7 April 2025

Associated British Ports names Parr new group HRD

Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s largest port operator, has appointed Rachael Parr (pictured) as its new group HR director.

Your recruitment business 3 April 2025

Pertemps makes a splash recruiting for Northumbrian Water

UK-wide recruitment agency Pertemps has been awarded the managed service contract for Northumbrian Water.

Your business, Your recruitment business 28 March 2025

APPOINTMENTS: 10-14 MARCH 2025

This week’s appointments include: Acorn by Synergie, Benenden Health, Clarkson Owens, Compass Group UK & Ireland, Finity, Mitie

DEI, Supplier 14 March 2025

FAST 50 2014: top performing industrial, logistics and construction recruiters revealed

Recruiters in the industrial, logistics and construction sectors are strongly represented in this year’s FAST 50, the 50 fastest-growing private recruitment companies, prepared by Boxington Corporate Finance and sponsored by ICS, making up 14% of the FAST 50 2014 list
Your recruitment business, FAST50 10 January 2014

Recruitment agencies lose GLA licence after migrant worker exploitation probe

The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has revoked the licences of agricultural recruiters Slender Contracting and MAS Recruitment after an investigation into the exploitation of migrant workers in Cambridgeshire.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 9 January 2014

More details revealed on RS Components global outsourcing deal with AMS

The former head of global resourcing at RS Components explains to Recruiter the thinking behind a global outsourcing deal between Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) and his former employer RS Components, which left his role redundant.
In-house recruitment 8 January 2014

Car manufacturers deliver on job creation promises

Job creation announcements don’t always pan out as planned, but as car sales in the UK hit their highest level since the heady days of 2007, recruitment plans announced last year by two of the UK’s motor manufacturers are already coming to fruition.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 7 January 2014

Recruitment bodies hit back at Miliband’s comments on the Swedish Derogation

Bodies representing the recruitment industry have defended the use of the Swedish Derogation model after Labour leader Ed Miliband said he would abolish the ‘loophole’ should Labour be elected at the 2015 General Election.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 6 January 2014

UK’s manufacturing sector set to achieve fastest growth in Europe

The UK’s manufacturing sector is set to grow by 2.7% in 2014, outperforming its European counterparts, according to manufacturing trade body EEF and think-tank Oxford Economics.
Your recruitment business 6 January 2014

Staffline earnings in line with expectations

Recruitment and outsourcing organisation Staffline has given a trading update for its financial year ended 31 December 2013 ahead of its preliminary results, which are expected on Wednesday, 29 January.
Your recruitment business 6 January 2014

Futurestep looks to China with NZ dairy Fonterra

Recruitment solutions firm Futurestep, part of Korn/Ferry, has been appointed to “drive ambitious business growth in Greater China” for exporter and milk processor Fonterra, New Zealand’s largest employer.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 3 January 2014

Sainsbury’s and Staffline encourage new crop of farmers with apprenticeship

A new generation of farmers is to be reared by Sainsbury’s, as the supermarket chain links up with Staffline to create a bespoke apprenticeship programme for the industry.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 2 January 2014

Ford to hire 11,000 across US and Asia in 2014

Global motor company Ford is to create 11,000 new jobs across the US and Asia in 2014.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 16 December 2013

BMW put agency temps first in push for 1,000 new hires

Car maker BMW is to create 1,000 new permanent jobs across its four UK manufacturing plants, saying current agency staff will be given first priority in recruitment.
In-house recruitment 13 December 2013

Randstad CFO takes on non-exec role and government consulting position

Robert Jan van de Kraats, the chief finance officer and vice-chair of global recruiter Randstad, has taken on an industrial non-executive position and joined a new Dutch governmental commission.
Your recruitment business 12 December 2013

Nuclear ambitions for CERN recruitment

Recruitment targets at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, are set in proportion to its 23-member countries’ financial contributions.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 11 December 2013

Sector Analysis Construction

Both retention and succession planning are key in the sector, with geography certainly playing a role
Analysis, In-house recruitment 11 December 2013

Seven-year sentence for unlicensed Norwich gangmaster

A Lithuanian national resident in Norfolk has become the first person ever to be sent to prison for an offence under the Gangmasters Licensing Act.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 10 December 2013

Recruiters bounce back in Fast Track league of growth companies

An expanded cohort of 17 companies represents the recruitment industry on this year’s The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 list of fast-growing private firms.
Your recruitment business, FAST50 9 December 2013
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