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Acorn wins major new contracts worth £7.4m
MILLIONS of pounds worth of new contracts have been won by leading recruitment and training specialist Acorn – helping to expand the company’s operations across the UK.
Acorn, which finds work for up to 5,500 people each week throughout the UK, has recently sealed contract wins worth a total of more than £7m over the next three years.
The biggest of the deals will see Acorn appointed as one of the preferred suppliers of nursing staff to the Primary Care Health Trusts at Bristol, Bath, Gloucester and Weston-super Mare.
The company will also be involved in supplying specialist nursing staff for the acute care units in the same region as part of a contract that is worth around £850,000 a year for the next three years.
Acorn has beaten 80 other recruitment companies to win an eight-month tender process to provide three local authorities in the West Country with temporary staff. The contracts, worth a total of around £3.5m over three years, are with Teignbridge District, South Hams District and West Devon Borough councils, all in Devon.
Acorn Group’s subsidiary business Barnstaple-based, Concept Staffing, will be one of the preferred workforce suppliers to all three local authorities, adding to the company’s existing portfolio of public sector clients in Devon, including major contracts with Devon County Council and Exeter City Council.
Acorn Bids Manager Stephen Newman said: “Notwithstanding the current difficulties for the UK’s recruitment industry, Acorn is doing pretty well in not only continuing to appeal to new clients, but in retaining contracts, too.
“As a company we are committed to looking after all our clients, a policy that is reaping great dividends in ensuring we have successfully retained nine out of every 10 contracts from last year.”
Established in 1992, Acorn has its headquarters at the Celtic Springs Business Park, Newport, Wales, with 32 branches across South Wales, North Wales, the West Country, Scotland and the North West of England.
Acorn places up to 5,500 people into about 750 different client companies each week. The business delivers training to more than 3,000 individuals and makes 1,500 permanent placements every year.
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