International recruiter Empresaria is planning further expansion into Asia, according to a company statement.

Ahead of yesterday’s annual general meeting, the group said both its Tokyo businesses returned to profitability in April after the impact of the earthquake in March. 

“Our investment in a new Singapore hub with brands that we have brought in from the UK at the start of the year is showing encouraging results and we are currently planning further investment in the hub concept within other Asian markets.

“We continue to review group operations in line with our stated objective to increase over time the financial contribution of professional staffing operations over technical/blue collar businesses. In this context we recently completed on the sale of our UK supply chain operations to the management team. The disposal is expected to have only a modest impact on full-year profits.”