As we near the festive break in the UK and around much of the world, the Penta Consulting team would like to wish everyone a happy, safe and peaceful holiday period.
We also approach the end of the calendar year, which always provides an opportunity to reflect on the past 12 months. 2025 has been an incredible chapter in the history of our business. In fact, it’s the most successful year Penta Consulting has had in 27 years of operation.
This has only been possible through the hard work of our truly amazing internal team and our dedicated and outstanding global resources representing us every day on the ground in over 87 countries. This is, of course, in addition to the trust from our clients, suppliers and partners.
The year has been filled with recognition from both inside and outside our industry, strategic global expansion and a doubling down on our corporate social responsibility and community-commitments.
A Record-Breaking Year
We recently announced financials for the 2025 financial year to be our best on record. Further, demonstrating the growth of Penta Consulting, the business has opened two new offices in 2025.
The first is in Doha, which marked a return to the Qatari market after a six year absence from having a physical office location in the country. This new physical presence will optimise costs and expand capabilities for existing clients while facilitating localised commercial agreements for new partners.
We also opened an office in Italy, enhancing our presence across EMEA as well as signalling enhanced capabilities within Italy itself.
The business has also grown significantly in Latin America as a result of client demand due to market maturation of LatAm’s digital sector and the investment in the region.
Awards and Recognition
King’s Award for Enterprise – International Trade
Penta Consulting was honoured by His Majesty King Charles III when he awarded Penta Consulting with the King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade 2025, one of the most distinguished honours for UK businesses. The award recognised Penta’s exceptional growth in international markets and its proven ability to deliver secure, compliant, and scalable solutions across the globe.
More recently, the official presentation of the award was made at Penta Consulting’s Epsom office. The business was presented with the King’s Award by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey Michael More-Molyneux, with other guests including:
- Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey, Neelam Devesher
- The Mayor of Epsom & Ewell Councillor, Robert Leach
- Rt Hon Helen Maguire MP for Epsom & Ewell
The King’s Awards for Enterprise were previously known as The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise and were renamed two years ago to reflect His Majesty The King’s desire to continue the legacy of HM Queen Elizabeth II by recognising outstanding UK businesses.
Penta Consulting is the only business in our sector to have now been honoured three times with these prestigious accolades.
Sunday Times Hundred
Penta Consulting was recognised as one of the UK’s fastest growing privately-owned businesses in 2025. Achieving the level of growth required to make this list, particularly in challenging global trading conditions, is a huge testament to the hard work, ambition, and resilience of our incredible global team. It also wouldn’t have been possible without the trust and collaboration of our valued clients and candidates.
London Business Awards
We were awarded International Business of the Year at the 2025 London Business Awards. Penta was also awarded Overall Winner among all finalists. We were privileged to enjoy this success at a ceremony celebrating the hard work, ingenuity and innovation of London businesses.
TIARA Awards
At the 2025 TIARA Awards Penta Consulting was named as Growth Company of the Year and UK Specialist of the Year (Over £20M). As an industry-focused awards, this was incredibly rewarding to be recognised within the sector.
Sunday Times Best Places to Work
In addition to awards that recognise our work, we are equally proud of our listing as a Sunday Times Best Place to Work. This reflects the work we’ve put in to building and maintaining our internal culture during a period of rapid growth. Penta Consulting is committed to build a workplace environment where everyone is happy, comfortable and able to perform at their best. As a business we have always been proud to have developed talent from within and have far stronger retention and average tenure length than the industry norm.
You can read more about what goes into achieving being a Sunday Times Best Place to Work here.
Ethical standards and compliance
Compliance with ethical, environmental, social, and governance targets is paramount for us to support our clients effectively and uphold industry reputations. We extend this commitment to our suppliers through a stringent “Know Your Customer” process, ensuring alignment with ESG objectives. Our supplier criteria mandates adherence to ethical, anti-slavery, anti-bribery, and information security codes, all underpinned by our ISO9001 & ISO27001 certifications.
Penta Consulting reinforced its commitment in 2025 to best-practice operations by achieving critical certifications:
ISO/IEC 27701 Certification: Attained in October 2025, this certification for Privacy Information Management Systems (PIMS) demonstrates Penta’s commitment to enhanced data protection and privacy compliance, a crucial requirement in global IT resourcing.
South Africa B-BBEE
Penta Consulting is also proud to have achieved Level 1 B-BBEE accreditation again for 2025, the highest rating possible under South Africa’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) framework. This is a progressive policy that has been in development since South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. The driving force behind the scheme is to help reverse the damage that decades of inequality caused and ensure that the economic development of the country benefits all its citizens, regardless of background or ethnicity.
Businesses operating in South Africa are assessed across several criteria on an annual basis; to quantify and verify the role they are playing within black economic empowerment.
Broader Initiatives
In line with growing global expectations for corporate responsibility, Penta formalised its environmental disclosure efforts by joining the CDP Environmental Disclosure System in October 2025.
The business formed an internal committee in 2025, tasked with ensuring our environmental, social and governance targets are set, actioned and achieved in the coming years as we continue to scale as a business.
Our Clients
We believe our exceptional client service plays a key role in strengthening the industry’s reputation. In the last year we made a significant investment into an external client satisfaction report, achieving an impressive overall NPS score of +73. Notably, our biggest client awarded Penta an NPS of +80. By consistently exceeding client expectations and building lasting partnerships, Penta has strengthened thestaffing industry’s image as a professional, reliable, and value-driven industry.
Volunteering and Community Projects
As a business we have always been committed to ensuring our team have regular volunteering opportunities that benefit the communities in which we operate. This year was no different, with the following activities and causes supported just to name some of them throughout the year.
- Good Company / Epsom Pantry – A local foodbank
- Macmillan Coffee Morning – Hosted an event to raise awareness and funding for those affected by Cancer
- Surrey Wildlife – Priest Hill – Habitat preservation and biodiversity improvement
- Age Concern Epsom & Ewell – Improving the lives of local elderly residents
- Krakow Food Drive – A local foodbank initiative to our Krakow office
- The Children’s Trust – primary sponsor for Winter festival and volunteered to decorate venue for an event that raises awareness and funding for children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability.
Happy New Year
Penta Consulting wishes everyone a happy, healthy and successful 2026.
As we move into 2026 we will continue to invest in ensuring we provide an industry-leading support standard for our global resources and provide even more global opportunities for talented technology professionals.
We also plan to continue to grow our internal team, our employee learning programmes and develop our talent to ensure our team continue develop and grow with us.
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