LA International is named UK's Largest IT Recruiter - Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250
LA International has again been ranked in the Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 rapidly accelerating 59 places up the ladder from 167th place in 2015 to 108th place for 2016 with a turnover of £210m, confirming its position as one of the UK’s largest mid-market private companies – testament to LA International’s continued impressive year on year sustained sales growth performance.
In total there are 5 Recruitment Companies in the Top Track 250 and LA international has landed the number 1 coveted position of being the Largest IT Recruitment Company ranked by turnover, as the global Recruitment Company operating from the largest single site in the UK continues to be the number 1 supplier of security cleared resource to Her Majesty’s Government. . The 250 companies grew combined sales by 14% to £58.1bn, operating profits by 26% to £4.9bn, and staff by 11% to 354,000.
The increased positioning comes as LA International are set to break through the £250 million turnover milestone, Financial Director Paul Martin comments “our strategy has always focused on organic growth across multiple IT market sectors both nationally and internationally, the continued evolvement of our multiple operating Divisions and Business Units provides true scalability, providing the platform for continued growth and expansion moving forward”
LA international has built an expertise in cybercrime prevention, which along with cloud-based security is one of its main growth areas in both the public and private sectors, amid a number of initiatives and specialist recruitment drives in emerging markets both at home and on the international front – where it is already a three times winner of the International Track 200 award and possesses the coveted Queens Award for International Trade.
LA International operates across 8 specialist Recruitment Divisions engaged in the provision of Contract & Permanent staff via award winning service delivery models. Their operating Divisions include; International, National Security & Defence, Public Sector, Engineering, ICT, Permanent, Financial Services and Managed Services.
The Staffing & Recruitment industry is a strong growth area with 750,000 jobs advertised each month and 56% of employers finding it difficult to fill their current available roles, such requirement will only grow in the next few years.
“As we mark our 35th anniversary, LA International is performing strongly and our potential for future growth is as exciting as it has ever been.Our mission – our financial goals – remains unchanged. LA Internationals vision is to be the best in the world as measured by our Clients. There’s a lot of volatility and change taking place, and what’s important in that environment is that companies are structured in such a way that they can deal with any type of uncertainty or economic situation that’s going to happen.” Commented founder, Chairman & CEO Paul Lukic.
Specialist Recruitment businesses such as LA International operating in highly skilled niche areas such as Cloud and Cyber Security are at a premium where demand is high and employers seek to secure their permanent and contract talent ahead of Brexit where demands for those skills together with security vetting will continue to grow.
Currently employing in excess of 125 staff at its Staffordshire based HQ and with over 2,500 consultants working globally, the high-end Recruiter is looking to increase their sales staff over the next 12 months by a further 20%, expanding their UK and International operations to meet demand from both existing and emerging markets
