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The firm says it is now eyeing European expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Parnell, managing director for the East Midlands, said: &#8220;Relocating to East Midlands Airport places SF Recruitment at the heart of East Midlands and in close proximity to major cities and transport hubs. Over 40 SF people will be moving to our new hub, making us one of the largest East Midlands focussed recruitment teams in the region. Over the last five years we have worked with over 50% of the region\u2019s businesses and are looking forward to the new relationships we\u2019ll be able to nurture from our new location.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move consolidates the company&#8217;s Leicester and Nottingham offices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2097677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127684],"coauthors":[95],"class_list":["post-2097676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recruitment","tag-featured-story","tag-leicestershire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Recruitment firm eyes European expansion after unveiling new airport HQ | TheBusinessDesk.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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