Board Update

RNS Number : 1318F

Staffline Group PLC

22 April 2014

 

22 April 2014

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

("Staffline" or "the Group")

Board Update

Staffline, the national recruitment and outsourcing organisation providing people and operational expertise to industry, today announces the following Board update.

Further to the previous announcement at the time of the Preliminary Results of Nick Keegan's intention to resign from his role as Non-Executive Director at the 2014 AGM. Staffline is pleased to announce Nick has decided to remain a Non-Executive Director for a further six months from the date of the AGM.

The also previously announced process of recruiting two further Independent Directors is currently on-going and further updates will be made as appropriate.

Andy Hogarth, CEO, Commented:

"Having served on the board for over nine years, we are pleased Nick has decided to continue his role with us. Nick's support and advice remains valuable and his extension with Staffline for a further six months will allow a smooth handover to the new Independent Directors once appointed. We continue our exciting growth plans and this continuity to the board will help to underpin our successful delivery of our ambitions."

For further information, please contact:
Staffline Group plc	0115 950 0885
Andy Hogarth, Chief Executive	07931 175775
Phillip Ledgard, Finance Director	07432  554437
www.staffline.co.uk
Liberum Capital Limited
Chris Bowman / Richard Bootle	020 3100 2222
Buchanan
Jeremy Garcia/ Gabriella Clinkard	020 7466 5000

About Staffline

Staffline Group plc was historically a recruitment organisation specialising in food processing, manufacturing, e-retail, driving and logistics.  We provide and manage industrial workforces and use training and business improvement techniques to ensure increased levels of efficiency to give our clients a significant commercial advantage.  Our recruitment business now operates from well over 200 locations in the UK, Ireland and Poland, supplying up to 33,000 temporary workers each day. 

Our recruitment brands now include Select Appointments, providing white collar office staff and Staffline Express, providing blue collar staff, both High Street branch operations.   Staffline OnSite is based on clients' premises and also provides both Blue collar and White Collar temporary staff, Driving Plus providing HGV drivers, Staffline Agriculture provides workers to the UK farming and growing sectors, Resourcing Plus which offers cost effective permanent recruitment solutions.

Our other areas of operation include Elpis, a national training and consultancy organisation, OSP, a specialist volume recruitment call centre and EOS, which helps the long term unemployed back in to work through Government Welfare to Work contracts.  We expanded our training capabilities in 2013 with Learning plus, a technologically advanced e-learning platform designed to deliver extremely cost effective work based skills training.

 

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