PROFIT TRACK SUCCESS FOR PENTA

Specialist ICT staffing company Penta Consulting based in Wallington Surrey is celebrating after being placed 64th in this year’s prestigious Sunday Times PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100 league table announced Sunday 22 April.

Profit Track 100, now in its eighth year, measures Britain’s fastest-growing private companies by profit growth over the last three years and Penta’s annual profit growth of 58% year on year created its position as the highest ranked recruitment company included. This listing is seen as the definitive league table of Britain’s most successful private companies and Penta sits alongside top household brands including Virgin Money, Dyson, Fat Face and Caffe Nero.

Penta is one of only two recruitment companies to be included in this annual nationwide survey of the country’s most dynamic independent companies. Commenting Paul Clark, Managing Director said. “Making it into the Profit Track 100 is a great testament to all the hard work and commitment that has gone into making Penta such a successful and profitable company and I’d like to thank everyone for their contribution. Winning awards is very positive for the business and great for the people involved, but being applauded for being one of the most profitable companies in the country is really what it’s all about. Profitability is absolutely key to being able to reinvest and drive your business forward.”

Suzi Woolfson, assurance partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, commented:
“It is great to see companies delivering sustained profit growth and making such a positive contribution to our economy.”

About Penta

Established in the UK in 1998, Penta Consulting is one of the country’s leading providers of innovative ICT staffing solutions, operating in over 75 countries around the world. Penta’s
success and rapid expansion have resulted from remaining true to its founding business principles of ‘listening’ to customers and putting their needs at the centre of its operation.

From its head office in Wallington, Surrey, and its 16 international offices Penta provides a wide range of contract and permanent staffing services including executive search and managed services. Winner of several high profile business and industry awards Penta is the only technical staffing company ever to have been granted a Queen’s Award for Enterprise and is an accredited Best Small Company to Work for. For the twelve months to 5 April 2006 turnover grew from £30.8m to £45.6m - an increase of 48%. Profitability, which has been the key focus during this period, has increased by 88%.

Tuesday, April 24 2007