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

JCB promises new staff in Staffs on back of £150m investment

Industrial machinery manufacturer JCB is to create an additional 2,500 jobs by 2018 in a £150m investment which it says could add a further 7,500 jobs in the UK supply chain.
Your recruitment business 9 December 2013

Check firms supplying Romanian and Bulgarian staff, urges GLA

As Bulgarian and Romanian workers get full rights to work in the UK in January, the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has warned firms in regulated industries to check that labour suppliers hold the legally-required licence.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 4 December 2013

Staffline acquires Leicestershire agency Magna Recruitment

Listed recruitment and outsourcing firm Staffline Group has acquired Magna Recruitment, a single-branch agency in Lutterworth, Leicestershire.
Your recruitment business 3 December 2013

Advanced Resource Managers restructures into niche recruitment divisions

Technical recruiter Advanced Resource Managers (ARM) has restructured, creating five niche recruitment divisions.
Your recruitment business 2 December 2013

Quantum fills senior roles at Hitachi Rail Europe

Executive recruiter Quantum has filled seven senior roles at a new Hitachi Rail project in the North-East, who will themselves in time hire 730 staff.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 28 November 2013

Edinburgh Woollen Mill to spin out 1,145 jobs and expand overseas

Clothing retailer Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group says it intends to open a further 100 stores and create 1,145 new jobs over the next 18 months.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 27 November 2013

ITV nabs McNab from PepsiCo as recruitment head

Katie McNab is to join broadcaster ITV as head of recruitment and talent at the start of December.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 22 November 2013

GLA strips recruitment agency of licence over Punjabs’ forged passports

The Gangmasters Licensing Authority is to revoke the licence of a Derby labour agency over several failings, including the use of forged passports enabling illegal immigrants to work.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 19 November 2013

UK agency work means forced labour threat, says Queen’s Belfast law school

A new report suggests that the UK is especially susceptible to forced labour because agency work is twice as prevalent as in any other EU country.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 18 November 2013

Oakleaf Partnership recruits Snowdon on commerce team

Luke Snowdon has joined HR recruiter Oakleaf Partnership as a senior consultant within the commerce team, focusing on clients across engineering, manufacturing, property and construction.
Your recruitment business 15 November 2013

Danbro gets Jonathan Lee Recruitment veteran Boothe for business development

Contractor accountancy and payroll firm Danbro has taken on experienced recruitment professional Chester Boothe as its new head of business development.
Your recruitment business 15 November 2013

Nestlé creates jobs and paid work experience in UK and Ireland

FMCG brand Nestlé UK and Ireland is creating 1,600 jobs and 300 paid work experience placements over the next three years, as part of a Europe-wide initiative.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 15 November 2013

Labour procurer de Poel goes Dutch with office in Sittard

Temporary agency labour procurer de Poel has opened a new office in the Netherlands in Sittard, in the Southern region of Limburg.
Your recruitment business 15 November 2013

West Midlands gangmaster loses licence over Working Time Regulations

A labour provider in the Black Country has been stripped of its Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) licence after the organisation found its licensee “incompetent” and discovering it was flouting Working Time Regulations
Legislation/Regulation 15 November 2013

You can’t prosecute away labour exploitation, says GLA boss

The chief executive officer of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) told the organisation’s seminar yesterday (12 November) that bringing more prosecutions was not the answer to exploitation of vulnerable workers in the UK.
Legislation/Regulation 13 November 2013

Drug maker AstraZeneca makes £120m investment in factory and jobs

Pharma giant AstraZeneca is to invest £120m in a new facility at its global manufacturing site in Macclesfield, securing and creating jobs.
Your recruitment business 12 November 2013
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