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InterQuest has outlined details of its joint venture with IT sales recruitment business Lanborne Consulting (see Recruiter news, 21 April), the first venture under its IQ Equity Programme.  

Multi-sector recruiter and managed services provider Impellam Group has announced an operating loss of £2.4m for the 12 months ending 31 December 2008. This compares with a loss of £3.4m in 2007.

Turnover was up 9.7% at £1.07bn (2007: £975.3m).

Employers need to warn higher-paid employees to exercise caution before increasing, or varying, their level of pension contributions over the next two years or face possible severe tax penalties, according to consultants Watson Wyatt.
 

Welfare to work provider FourstaR Employment and Skills has been chosen to deliver the government’s flagship welfare to work programme in the Birmingham and Solihull area.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has published proposed changes to its guidance on directordisqualification orders in competition law cases.

More than 80% of public sector organisations think private sector workers could best fill skills shortages in their organisation, according to a new survey from Hays.

Financial services sales recruiter Verridian has appointed Martin Tuckwell as a non-executive director.

Retail recruiters are not experiencing any Christmas joy, despite bumper numbers of shoppers taking to the high-street this weekend.

A spokeswoman for the New West End Company, which represents London’s shopping district, told Metro that 2m shoppers took to the high street this weekend.

Legal recruiter SSQ is to open a new office in Paris. The French office will be led by Melanie Tremblay, who has worked for several years in the French legal recruitment market.

Marketing recruiter Elizabeth Norman has reported healthy revenues over the third and fourth quarters.

Emy Rumble-Mettle, general manager at Elizabeth Norman, told Recruiter: “We have continued to see healthy revenues in 2008 when compared to 2007. Q3 has increased by 16% and Q4 by 24%.

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