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Allen Lane The shareholders of public and not-for-profit sector staffing specialist Allen Lane have sold 82.5% of the issued shares in its holding company to Japanese firm Outsourcing Inc. Law firm Mishcon de Reya represented the shareholders of Allen Lane on the sale.
EMR Search & Selection IPE Ventures, the private equity arm of the IPE Group, has acquired international marketing staffing specialist EMR Search & Selection from the recruitment organisation the FiveTen Group. The deal was led by Adam Fletcher and Enam Rehman on behalf of IPE Ventures, supported by Gateley and Haslers Corporate Finance. FiveTen was advised by Blackwood Capital. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Frontline Recruitment Leicester-based Frontline Recruitment has secured a new one-year sole supplier agreement with manufacturer and distributor of durable medical products Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare. The deal will see Frontline supply all unskilled labour to the Thurmaston-based company in Leicestershire.
ManpowerGroup UK Recruitment giant ManpowerGroup UK has chosen HR tech company Talmundo’s services in a bid to make its employee onboarding journey faster and easier, while also minimising the time-consuming paperwork involved in the hiring process. ManpowerGroup UK expects to use the onboarding solution to hire more than 300 new staff across the group within the first year of the collaboration, while Talmundo’s onboarding software will be integrated into the company’s own applicant tracking system.
Barker Ross Construction firm Berkeley Modular has appointed Leicester-based construction staffing specialist Barker Ross to recruit 140-145 roles in the firm’s new factory. The move follows Berkeley Modular, the volumetric modular construction arm of Berkeley Group, starting construction on its purpose-built modular homes manufacturing facility. Roles include quantity surveyors, supply chain managers, design engineers, production operatives, project managers, facilities managers and quality engineers, as well as plumbers, electricians and carpenters, and roles in administration, HR and finance. As part of its partnership with Berkeley Modular, Barker Ross has now opened a dedicated office in Dartford, Kent to recruit for the new state-of-the-art facility. It will also lease an office at the 10-acre factory site in Ebbsfleet.
Trust Tech Japan-based staffing business Trust Tech is to take a majority stake in multi-sector recruiter Quattro Group. In a statement, the group revealed its board of directors had passed a resolution for it to acquire 75% of the shares of Quattro Group through subsidiary gap personnel. Trust Tech further revealed it plans to make Quattro Group a consolidated subsidiary of the group following the deal.
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Search Consultancy Search Consultancy has bought technical and IT sales recruitment specialist Henderson Scott in a multimillion pound deal. In a statement, Search Consultancy revealed the deal would give Search a combined revenue of £220m, with more than 750 staff across 17 UK offices. The
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acquisition also sees the enlarged group change its name from Search Consultancy to Search Group. Henderson Scott recruits across six core IT recruitment markets. Henderson Scott’s CEO Mark Bailey will be joining Search’s board following the deal.
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