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When there’s no place like home – and it may need improving

Amid a gloom-and-doom cascade of unemployment figures and numbers of furloughed workers, small shoots of economic activity are popping up, notably in the home improvement and delivery sectors.

Retail, Sales 18 June 2020

FINANCIALS: Hays benefits from strong performance in US and China

A strong performance in the US and China, backed by solid growth in other markets in Asia and the Americas, bolstered global recruiter Hays’ results, according to a trading update for the three months ending 30 September 2019.

15 October 2019

Recruitment M&A activity in the UK returns to pre-recession levels

Mergers and acquisitions involving UK recruiters have returned to pre-recession levels, with a 167% increase in deals over the past two years on the same period a decade ago.

22 August 2019

Sellick Partnership eyes European opportunities with sale to Samsic

Sellick Partnership’s sale of a majority stake in the business to soft service provider Samsic will open up opportunities for the professional services staffing specialist right across Europe.

Construction & property, Legal 10 April 2019

FINANCIALS: Americas business leads gross profit growth at PageGroup

Global recruiter PageGroup has seen group gross profit increase 11.7% year-on-year, according to a trading update for the first quarter of 2019.

10 April 2019

FINANCIALS: ClearStar sees profit rise

US background check technology and service provider ClearStar has seen year-on-year profit climb 11%, according to a trading update for the quarter to 31 March 2019.

10 April 2019

FINANCIALS: Heidrick & Struggles sees revenue rise by more than 15%

Global executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles has seen net revenue climb 15.2% year-on-year, according to full-year 2018 results.

Executive search 26 February 2019

FINANCIALS: ManpowerGroup sees slight drop in revenue

ManpowerGroup has reported a slight drop in year-on-year revenue for the third quarter.

22 October 2018

FINANCIALS: Staffline grows in 2012, ‘difficult’ year at Hudson

UK recruitment and outsourcing firm Staffline delivered substantial growth in 2012, promising more to come in 2013, while global recruitment group Hudson was in the red, with its chief executive officer calling 2012 “difficult to navigate by any measure”.

IT/Telecoms, Legal 25 February 2013

Spanish recruitment bodies unite with Manpower

This month sees the launch of Asempleo, a new trade body for the recruitment and staffing industries in Spain, including Manpower – the first time the staffing group has been part of such an organisation in that territory, according to the new body.

25 February 2013

Roc Search gets Moore for training

IT and engineering recruitment agency Roc Search has appointed Lucy Moore as its internal training manager.

Engineering, IT/Telecoms 22 February 2013

FiveTen gets ex-Page director as MD for Brazil

Recruitment group FiveTen has appointed Augusto Puliti as managing director of its Brazilian business.

Executive search 22 February 2013

Recruiters catch fair wind as stock market powers on

In my column last month, I speculated whether 2000 years of New Year’s resolutions explain why we seem to be hardwired to enter the new year with a greater sense of optimism.

21 February 2013

Eurostaff Tech opens Berlin office

Eurostaff Technology, the IT staffing brand of recruitment group Staffgroup, has opened a new office in Berlin.

Creative/Digital/Media, IT/Telecoms 18 February 2013

Transline appoints executive pair in Canada

Specialist recruiter Transline Resource Group has appointed Karin French to the role of vice president for North American operations and Maryanne Goodwin to the post of national sales manager in its recently opened Canadian office.

Commercial & office support, Construction & property 15 February 2013

Brewer Morris hires Hoyle

Global tax and treasury recruiter Brewer Morris has brought in Russell Hoyle as an associate director leading its international markets tax practice.

Executive search 15 February 2013

FINANCIALS: UK ‘strengthens’ but declines at Randstad

International staffing group Randstad says that “revenue trends in the UK strengthened”, with education and finance sectors particularly good performers, although total revenues for the UK fell in both Q4 2012 and the year as a whole.

Education 14 February 2013

HCL shareholder undecided on selling his stake

A shareholder of healthcare recruiter Healthcare Locums (HCL), who it was believed had decided not sell his shareholding to the company’s two largest shareholders, has since told Recruiter that he has yet to make up his mind.

Life sciences 14 February 2013

Recruitment pioneer Marks passes away

Recruitment industry veteran Bernard Marks died last week in Sydney at the age of 89.

11 February 2013

Major staffing company stocks immune to New Year investment euphoria – City Comment

The first month of the new year was dominated by trading updates and results from three of the big four large cap UK recruiters.

7 February 2013

Cook leaves Hays for ‘exciting opportunities’

Tim Cook, global head of digital and business innovation at Hays, is leaving the specialist recruitment firm after 26 years with the company to join private equity business Hamilton Bradshaw.

Construction & property, Executive search 7 February 2013

PageGroup gets £50m HSBC invoice facility

Recruitment group PageGroup has secured a £50m invoicing facility with HSBC Invoice Finance to support their growth plans.

Commercial & office support 6 February 2013

Be famous for something, urges Clements

Owners of ‘me too’ companies can forget their dream of making a successful exit from their staffing business, says Russell Clements, chairman of visual analytics company cube19 and recently-departed chief executive officer of recruiter SThree.

31 January 2013

Cable direct: why no women execs?

Business secretary Vince Cable has written to seven leading UK companies with all-male boards in a direct plea for them to take action to get women into their boardrooms.

Engineering 30 January 2013