Recruitment business grows network with launch of four new offices

A YORKSHIRE recruitment business is opening four new offices as demand for staff grows.

Stafforce Recruitment, which is headquartered in Rotherham but has a 28-strong network of branches and on-site operations stretching from the North of Scotland via London to Chichester on the south coast, will launch the new operations in Sheffield, Doncaster, Wolverhampton and Docklands in London.

It extends Stafforce Recruitment’s presence into the West Midlands for the first time, doubles its operations in the capital and significantly strengthens the company’s position in the Yorkshire region.

Stafforce Recruitment founder and chairman Nick Cragg said that with demand for workers now growing across all regions of the UK, it was the right time to put the company’s expansion plans into action.

The company, which in 2013 turned over £60m, supplies temporary and permanent staff, from first time job seekers to semi-skilled workers, to manufacturing and production companies and the commercial and industrial sectors and is the sister brand to executive recruiter Nicholas Associates – also owned by Mr Cragg – which sources senior management and director-level candidates.

Mr Cragg, who is also chairman of rugby club Rotherham Titans, said: “Growing the Stafforce Recruitment brand on a national basis has been on the agenda for some time but with economic uncertainly blighting the UK and Europe over recent years, we needed to pick the right time to do it.

“We have seen demand for staff increase across the majority of sectors we service and that seems as if it is set to continue, so we believe that now is the time.

“We have some really fantastic people heading up our new offices with many years of recruitment experience between them. I’m extremely excited by the expansion, which is the first of a number we have planned over medium term.”

Stafforce Recruitment, launched in 1977, previously had offices in Doncaster and Sheffield but consolidated its South Yorkshire operations during the recession as the region was hit by heavy job losses.

The office in Docklands, which specialises in providing labour to London’s catering industry and the logistics sector joins the firm’s other London office in Charlton, and the Wolverhampton office will specialise in industrial and commercial businesses, including the region’s aerospace industry which dominates the city’s manufacturing sector.

Mr Cragg added that re-establishing offices in Doncaster and Sheffield was the best way to serve the region’s businesses as it enabled Stafforce Recruitment to become part of the commercial landscape of areas they were based.

He said: “There are a lot of exciting investment projects in South Yorkshire at the moment and our ambition is to be involved in those and to play our part in ensuring the economic potential of the region is realised.

“To do that without a strong local presence would be difficult, we need to be part of South Yorkshire’s respective business communities so that is why it is important for us to launch these new offices now.

“But the same goes for London and Wolverhampton. We want to capitalise on the upturn in these areas also so need to be truly integrated into the community to enable that to happen.”