Centurion Publishing Limited (CPL), the company which owns Professional Recruiter, has purchased Inside Recruitment, previously known as Interviewer, for an undisclosed sum.

The deal with newspaper group Trinity Mirror will create the strongest recruitment title that the UK recruitment industry has ever seen.

The new Professional Recruiter, which will incorporate Inside Recruitment, will have a circulation in excess of 30,000 readers, making it the largest recruitment title in the world.

With a mix of news, features, analysis and opinion, the title will cover all areas of the recruitment industry from temporary agencies to executive search, giving unrivalled coverage of the staffing market.

Commenting on the news, Recruiter publisher Nick Simpson said: ‘This is a tremendous opportunity for us to provide the recruitment industry with the best media brand it has ever seen. We are looking forward to continuing to work in partnership with the industry to raise the profile of recruitment and to champion its growth.’

Philip McMullan, editor of the title, added: ‘It’s been great to cover the industry at such an exciting time in its development. This acquisition will allow us to go on to achieve bigger and better things, giving the recruitment industry in the 21st century the strong business magazine that it so obviously deserves.’