Financials

FINANCIALS: Staffline results exceed market expectations

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

Retail, Public sector 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.

Oil & gas/Energy, Engineering 7 April 2025

FINANCIALS: Hays posts mixed six-month results

Hays group net fees dropped by 13% to £496m in the six months ended 31 December 2024, with temporary recruitment and contracting falling by 9% and permanent recruitment by 19%.

24 February 2025

$6m-valued AI start-up Alfa AI plans to revolutionise recruitment

An AI recruitment start-up has secured more than $625,000 (£494,500) to place the company at a valuation of $6m.

Creative/Digital/Media, IT/Telecoms 24 February 2025

FINANCIALS: SThree profits down due to challenging conditions

STEM recruiter SThree reports that its net fees were down 9% year-on-year (YoY).

Life sciences, Engineering 4 February 2025

FINANCIALS: Staffline defies recruitment’s downward trend

Recruitment and training company Staffline Group has reported a 9% increase in gross profits, bucking the recent downward trend posted by recruitment firms.

Retail, Public sector 4 February 2025

FINANCIALS: Kelly Q3 results show 7.1% decline in revenue

Talent solutions provider Kelly has announced financial results for the third quarter of 2024.

12 November 2024

FINANCIALS: PageGroup profits fall in ‘subdued conditions’

PageGroup has reported that “continued subdued levels of client and candidate confidence” are affecting recruitment decisions, leading to a 13.5% fall in overall profit for Q3 2024, compared with the same time last year.

15 October 2024

FINANCIALS: Hays results hit from hiring slowdown

Global recruiter Hays has started its 2025 financial year with downward movement from its 2024 financial year.

11 October 2024

FINANCIALS: Record first-half year for Robert Walters

Global recruiter Robert Walters has today [1 August 2022] reported a record first-half year performance with group net fee income (NFI) up 27% to £210.5m and operating profit rising by 15% to £27.7m year-on-year.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Engineering 1 August 2022

Global recruiter Phoenix raises €1m investment for further growth

Global specialist recruitment firm Phoenix has raised a €1m (£838,428) investment to help fuel growth plans in the UK, Ireland and the US.

Executive search, IT/Telecoms 28 July 2022

Financials: SThree results show profits up by 25%

STEM recruiter SThree’s group net fees increased by 25% in the first half of 2022, compared with a non-Covid affected period.

Life sciences, Engineering 23 June 2022

D&A recruiter Harnham in £multi-million investment deal with BGF

Data & analytics recruiter Harnham has announced the completion of a multi-million-pound investment deal with BGF, the UK and Ireland’s active growth capital investor.

12 May 2022

FINANCIALS: Hays reports record quarter results

Global recruiter Hays enjoyed a record quarter in the three months ended 31 March 2022, the company has announced.

19 April 2022

FINANCIALS: Adecco bids for remaining AKKA Technologies shares

The Adecco Group is to finalise its bid for the remaining shares in global engineering consulting and R&D services firm AKKA Technologies.

17 March 2022

PE investment leads to 25% of M&A deals says BDO report

Private equity investment accounted for a quarter of all M&A deals with UK involvement in 2021, according to the newly published BDO’s M&A Review: Recruitment.

17 February 2022

Kingsley Gate Partners gets investment injection from Crescent Cove Advisors

Executive search firm Kingsley Gate Partners has announced an investment from Crescent Cove Advisors.

Executive search, IT/Telecoms 8 February 2022

Nigel Wright Group regain company ownership thanks to ThinCats

ThinCats, an alternative finance provider to mid-sized SMEs, has provided funding to recruitment firm Nigel Wright Group to purchase all outstanding equity from its institutional shareholders.

Retail, Executive search 3 February 2022

Tax and accounting professionals propose ‘fair solution’ to loan charge

A group of tax and accounting sector professionals have written to the Chancellor to resolve the loan charge situation.

13 December 2021

FINANCIALS: Empresaria expects income, profit increases

A trading update from global specialist staffing group Empresaria suggests that the group’s full-year net fee income will be “in the range of” £57m to £59m for the current financial year ending 31 December 2021.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Banking/Financial services 26 October 2021

FINANCIALS: Gattaca NFI exceeds previous period

Specialist engineering and technology staffing business Gattaca has achieved 7% higher net fee income (NFI) in the first half of 2021 than during the same period last year.

Engineering, IT/Telecoms 17 August 2021

FINANCIALS: Empresaria’s profits up, but revenue declines

Global and multi-sector recruitment group Empresaria has announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2021.

Public sector, Healthcare/Medical 12 August 2021

FINANCIALS: Staffline expects revenues and GP to increase

Recruitment and training group Staffline expects its H1 2021 revenues to reach £450.7m, an increase of 4.7% from the same period last year.

Retail, Industrial/Manufacturing 28 July 2021

FINANCIALS: Group revenues up for Adecco

Adecco is reporting “significant revenue improvement” and strong margin performance in its Q2 2021 financial results, announced today (28 July 2021).

28 July 2021

FINANCIALS: Positive momentum across all Randstad geographies

Group revenue for global recruiter Randstad in 2021’s second quarter surpassed 2019 levels.

27 July 2021
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