Ten organisations with recruitment interests earned places in ‘The Sunday Times HSBC 2011 Top Track 250’, a league table that ranks mid-market firms by sales. The list is intended to complement the newspaper’s Top Track 100, which was published earlier this year. 

Placed at No 27, the Cordant Group was the highest ranked company with recruitment-related interests. Cordant owns recruitment firms Abacus Recruitment, Premiere People, Prime Time Recruitment, PMP Recruitment, Judy Fisher Associates and Grosvenor Boston, as well as divisions in cleaning and security. According to the listings, Cordant achieved £437.5m in sales and £17.8m profit in the financial year ended June 2011. Sales had increased from £362.4m the previous year.

Other organisations with recruitment-related interests ranked in the 250 were:

• 41: Fircroft (recruitment agency)

• 44: Swift Worldwide Resources (recruitment agency)

• 66: giant group (outsourced services provider)

• 82: Acteon (provider of offshore services including recruitment services through TEAM Energy Resources)

• 91: de Poel (agency staff procurement consultancy)

• 106: Pertemps (recruitment agency)

• 109: NES Group (engineering recruitment agency)

• 148: A4e (outsourced employment adviser)

• 155: Rullion Group (recruitment agency)

For a look at the most profitable recruitment agencies, see the 16 November issue of Recruiter for Recruiter’s Hot 100