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Accrington’s Cummins Mellor Recruitment expands workforce by 20%

Independent recruitment consultancy Cummins Mellor Recruitment has expanded its workforce by 20%.

The Accrington-based business has also developed a comprehensive business plan, restructured its operational departments, and created an effective succession strategy thanks to help from Boost Business Lancashire’s Growth Mentoring programme.

Established in 1990, Cummins Mellor Recruitment specialises in recruiting across employment sectors including hospitality, accountancy & finance, commercial office support, and sales & marketing, in temporary, permanent and interim contracts.

The company found out about Boost’s mentoring programme as a result of a longstanding relationship with business support organisation Community & Business Partners (CBP).

As a result, operations director Michelle Mellor enrolled on the programme and was matched with CBP mentor Imelda O’Keefe.

Boost Business Lancashire is the £7.2 million Lancashire Business Growth Hub, offering free and part-funded business support to ambitious and growing businesses.

Operations director, Michelle Mellor, said: “Our challenge was to look at succession and a realistic growth plan across the business, as well as deciding on a business development strategy for our three-product offering.

“At the same time, we needed to introduce a new management layer in the business that we didn’t previously have in place.”

“We’ve worked closely with Jane Houghton Fenning and her team at CBP and have always found them really helpful and informative.”

“Imelda threw ideas around by asking great questions, challenging our answers and giving us her thoughts. We got excellent support and input. Imelda’s knowledge helped enormously and it was great to have her as a sounding board.

“We learned to slow down and look at what we already had.

“Next we formulated a plan of where we wanted to be in one, three and five years, taking into account revenue and headcount needed to achieve the objective.”

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