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Major Growth for Focus Management Consultants Limited

Focus Management Consultants Limited, market leader in food and drink recruitment across the UK and internationally, celebrates a record period of growth, and prepares to consolidate with major team expansion in 2015.

Operating from its contemporary Bollington-based head office, Focus Management Consultants Limited has seen a significant 26% like for like growth in revenue for the calendar year to 31 December 2014.

The business, which has been successfully trading since 1990, has three additional UK offices as well as a Middle East operation in Dubai, and is now looking to expand its team of 30 people by 30% in the next 18 months. Team expansion will facilitate Focus Management Consultants Limited to realise its ambitious turnover target of an additional £1m in annual revenue by Summer 2016.

The new team members, consisting of highly driven recruitment consultants, will be primarily based at the business’s main hub in Cheshire, however opportunities do exist to join the firm’s existing teams in Dorset and Dubai, as Focus Management Consultants Limited takes steps to strengthen its position both within the domestic market and internationally.

With 95% client referrals, Focus Management Consultants Limited boasts a vast client portfolio and has long-term relationships with global grocery retailers, manufacturers and food service brands such as Bakkavor, John West, A B Mauri, Nando’s, Ella’s Kitchen, Rational and works with 50-60 major organisations every month.

Stephen Jones, Co-founder and Director at Focus Management Consultants Limited, commented: “We are thrilled to have witnessed such extensive growth, particularly in the last quarter of 2014. This Summer we will be celebrating our 25th birthday, and reaching a significant financial milestone is very encouraging for the team and their dedication will give them confidence to excel even further this year.”

Employing the very best recruitment specialists from the manufacturing, retail and food service industries, Focus Management Consultants Limited is searching for the finest consultants interested in developing their career with a major sector specialist within the recruitment industry. The candidates may be already employed in a similar remit, or indeed working in a relevant industry sector, with a current remit which might well complement a potential role at the firm.

Focus Management Consultants Limited is also keen to source commercially successful people from business to business backgrounds who are interested in receiving best-in-class training to develop the skills to become an outstanding consultant.

Stephen added: “We will be taking on up to 10 more members of staff to work at any of our locations, where we will be offering highly attractive salaries, large bonuses, flexible hours and the opportunity to be part of a company which really invests in its employees. Consultants who join us will have the unique opportunity to work on a strategic level with our clients, becoming business managers as they develop consultative resourcing partnerships.”

Founded by Stephen Jones and Michael Staniland in 1990, Focus Management Consultants Limited is dedicated to supplying the food and drink industry with effective recruitment solutions in areas such as HR, product development, operations, purchasing and commercial.

In 2009 the business restructured to establish dedicated divisions to meet the needs of the growing demand for its services, here in the UK and abroad. It currently has seven unique brands:

• Focus Management for permanent food jobs in all disciplines up to £100k • Focus Graduates for graduate food jobs • Focus Chefs for NPD chef jobs • Focus Select for senior and board level food jobs • Focus Interim for interim food jobs • Focus International for international food jobs outside the UK • Focus Ingredients for ingredients and flavours opportunities at all levels

Focus Management Consultants is also a co-founder of the International Food Recruitment Alliance – a consortium of six like-minded food and beverage recruitment consultancies based throughout Europe to provide more choice to clients and candidates on the global food recruitment stage.

For more information on Focus Management Consultants please visit: www.focusmanagementconsultants.co.uk

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