9 recruitment agencies feature in The Sunday Times Top Track 250 league table 2015

Three quarters of the companies on the league table improved their operating profit margin in their latest year

The league table ranks the 250 next biggest private companies, provided either sales or operating profits have increased by at least 10% in their latest available accounts, sales ranged from £140m to £650m.

Of the 9 recruiters who featured, Pertemps Network Group ranked the highest at number 11 in the table.

Despite the tough economy, three quarters of the companies on the league table improved their operating profit margin in their latest year, and 92% increased their sales to a combined £69bn, equivalent to 4% of GDP. Staff numbers are up 29,000 from the previous year to 347,000, representing 1.1% of the UK workforce.

Rank Company
Activity
Latest sales
(£m)
Profit
(£m)
Financ’l
year
end
Main shareholders
11 Pertemps Network Group
Recruitment consultancy
*555.2 *15.2 Dec 14 Management and employees (75%), LDC and others (25%)

 

51 Rullion Group
Recruitment consultancy
407.3 5.4 Dec 14 Rose Saoulli (100%)

 

72 Independent Clinical Services
Healthcare recruiter
314.0 26.0 Dec 13 TowerBrook (>50%), Management (<50%)

 

79 The Best Connection
Recruitment consultancy
301.4 12.5 Nov 14 Co-founders (71%), other management (29%)

 

167 LA International
IT recruitment consultancy
*188.8 *9.1 Jun 15 Paul Luckic (93%), other management (7%)

 

182 Resource Solutions Group
Recruitment consultancy
176.2 7.9 Jun 14 Keith Dawe (89%), Sanderson Computer Recruitment Executive Scheme (10%), Joanna Dawe (1%)

 

190 NRL
Recruitment consultancy
172.8 6.4 Dec 14 Andrew Redmayne (52%), Hugh Redmayne (22%), Redmayne family (26%)

 

222 Search Consultancy
Recruitment consultancy
156.3 4.9 Jan 15 Saints Capital (65%), mangement (35%)

 

242 Petroplan
Recruitment consultancy
144.0 5.5 Dec 13 John Reeder (45%), Graham Pyle (25%), Andrew Speers (10%), other (20%)

 

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