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Largest Recruitment & Staffing Public Companies in the UK
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Hays, PageGroup, SThree, Robert Walters and Staffline Group.
 | Hays PLC is a recruitment company, providing staffing solutions across various sectors, including information technology, construction, finance, education, and healthcare. The company generates revenue prominently through fees for placing candidates in permanent, temporary, and contract roles. It also offers workforce solutions such as recruitment process outsourcing, managed service programs, and advisory services. Hays operates its business in four regions: Germany, the United Kingdom & Ireland, Australia & New Zealand, and the Rest of the World. Its business model focuses on matching skilled professionals with employer needs through a network of recruitment consultants and digital platforms, without owning physical labor assets. | $0 | -52% | $738M | $927M | 0.1x | 6.8x | ||
| PageGroup PLC is engaged in providing recruitment consulting. The company is divided into different brands, page executive, which provides management solutions for organizations regarding leadership talent, Michael page provides recruits on a permanent, temporary, contract, and interim basis, Page Personnel provides recruiting services at technical, administrative, clerical, and junior management levels and Page Outsourcing. It derives the majority of its revenue from the EMEA region followed by the United Kingdom. It also has its presence in the Asia Pacific and Americas. | $2 | -50% | $563M | $700M | 0.3x | 6.2x | ||
| SThree PLC is involved in the staffing business. It provides contract and permanent recruitment services. The company operates in information and communication, engineering, energy, life sciences, banking, and finance sectors. It provides its service through various brands such as Progressive, Computer Futures, Real Staffing Group, and Huxley Associates. The company generated revenue from DACH, Rest of Europe, Netherlands including Spain, USA, Middle East & Asia. | $2 | -26% | $292M | $264M | 0.1x | 4.3x | ||
| Robert Walters PLC is a specialist professional recruitment group. The company specialises in the placement of professionals across the disciplines of accountancy and finance, banking, engineering, HR, healthcare, IT, legal, sales, marketing, secretarial and support and supply chain, logistics, and procurement. The company's client base ranges from blue-chip corporates and financial services organizations to SMEs and start-ups. The company provides three core services: Specialist professional recruitment, Recruitment outsourcing, and Talent advisory. Its geographical area of operation includes Asia Pacific, the UK, Europe, and the Rest of World. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Asia Pacific region. | $1 | -53% | $85M | $142M | 0.1x | 13.1x | ||
| Staffline Group PLC is engaged in the provision of recruitment and outsourced human resource services to the industry as well as the provision of skills training and probationary services. The company's operating segment includes Recruitment GB, Recruitment Ireland, and PeoplePlus. Its business activity of the group functions throughout the United Kingdom. The majority of the revenue comes from Recruitment GB. | $1 | +4% | $60M | $64M | 0.0x | 2.9x | ||
| Gattaca PLC provides recruitment services prominently for the engineering and technology sectors. The company's operating segments are classified into Mobility, Energy, Defense, Technology, Media and Telecoms, Infrastructure, Gattaca projects, International, and Others. It derives key revenue from the Infrastructure segment. Geographically, it derives key revenue from the United Kingdom and rest from the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. | $2 | +47% | $48M | $31M | 0.1x | 5.4x | ||
| Median | $1 | -38% | $188M | $203M | 0.1x | 5.8x |
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