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TAC Europe attends Jobserve careers fair 2005

On the 18th and 19th of November, TAC Europe attended the Jobserve Careers Fair at the Barbican in London. The event covered a broad range of job disciplines and was attended by many UK recruitment companies, businesses as well as job seekers and graduates looking for their next role.

Over 7000 visitors came along to meet exhibitors over the two days. David Gettins Business Group Manager of TAC Europe’s ICT group commented; “The event was a very successful one for us and we found that candidates had very diverse technical skills. The hot skills seemed to be in networking and .net technologies”. He also added “TAC were very pleased to be exhibiting amongst some of the top IT client businesses in the UK and Europe.”

TAC Europe acquires Cliveden Recruitment plc

TAC Europe is pleased to announce the acquisition of the business of Cliveden Recruitment plc on 23rd January 2006.

Established in 1977, and with a database of over 150,000 contractors, Cliveden provides technical recruitment services to an impressive client portfolio, including such market leaders as BMW, BAE Systems, Metronet & Kellogg Brown Root.

Roger Howard, Founder and Managing Director of Cliveden commented “This is a wonderful opportunity for the business to continue its development as part of an internationally recognised technical recruitment organisation.”

Simon Trippick, Managing Director of TAC Europe enthuses “Cliveden represents a very close match with our existing business and fits perfectly with the profile of companies we are targeting for acquisition as part of our overall growth strategy. We look forward to working with our new colleagues in order to deliver greater value to all our contractors and as well as our clients, both new and existing.”

This is the second acquisition for TAC Europe in the last 3 months and follows the recent deal for rail industry specialist recruitment company, Westmead Associates in October 2005.