MORE than 70 jobs will be created at the North-East's largest professional recruitment company over the next three to five years as the company aims to more than double turnover.
Nigel Wright Associates (NWA), which is based in Newcastle but has clients all over the region and across the UK, is planning to double staff numbers from 78 to 150 as it expands its offices in the city's Grey Street.
The company moved to the site in 2003, when it employed 35 staff, and has recently won a number of high-profile contracts with Northern Foods, brewer SABMiller and car manufacturer Honda.
It is also recruiting managers for international car components maker Lear Corporation, which is building a factory in Sunderland.
NWA started in 1988 specialising in financial recruitment.
Patrick Smith, director at NWA, said: "We are setting targets of doubling the workforce within three to five years, and we have taken on extra office space in order to do that.
"We are hoping to double or triple our national work, and also grow our North-East work.
"In the past year, we have appointed a marketing team here, and are growing the number of consultants. As we grow our reputation nationally, we put the North-East on the map in terms of recruitment.
"We are also creating high- quality, mostly graduate jobs, in our own company." Since 1995, employee numbers have doubled every two years as the company diversified from junior to senior levels in human resources, finance, legal, sales, marketing and public practice, as well as manufacturing and engineering across the North-East.
NWA has also built up three national divisions, offering services for the consumer products, food and drink and automotive and aerospace sectors.
In the permanent recruitment sector, the company is in the top five per cent nationally in terms of turnover.
High-profile clients include Rolls Royce, Procter and Gamble and Coca-Cola.
Recent assignments included the appointment of a marketing director for Coca-Cola and work with SABMiller, in Italy, and Coca-Cola, in France.
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