Leading local recruitment business, Driver Hire Southend, has new franchise owners – Wola and Ernest Akwenuke. They’ve bought the highly successful office from long-standing franchisees, Irene and Dan Pritchard. Before buying their Driver Hire franchise, Wola was an employment lawyer and has worked in both private practice and the public sector. Ernest is a qualified optometrist […]
Mergers and acquisitions expert joins the team
Neil McManus has joined Specialist People Services (SPS) as group Merges & Acquisitions Director. The recruitment services group includes the Driver Hire Nationwide franchise brand, Driver Hire Training, Driver Hire Australia and Driver Hire eServices in its portfolio. SPS focuses on the provision of recruitment services to regulated, hard-to-serve sectors. In 2013 it acquired specialist […]
Welcoming Michael and Jayne as our new franchisees in Grimsby
Driver Hire Grimsby, has new franchisees – Michael and Jayne O’Flynn. Before buying their Driver Hire franchise, Jayne worked in facilities and event management and, most recently, in the property management industry. Michael was previously an Operations Director for gas and electrical safety company, gas-elec Safety Systems Ltd. Another established nationwide franchise business; it introduced Michael […]
A huge welcome to our new Driver Hire East London franchisee
Richard Pugh has recently completed the purchase of Driver Hire’s East London franchise. He’s no stranger to the business, opening the office as a brand new venture in 2007 and then running it on a joint venture basis with Driver Hire ever since. “I decided it was time to go it alone for a variety of […]
Driver Hire collects national marketing award
Driver Hire, received some excellent news last week. It was announced winner of the ‘Best Franchisee Marketing Support’ category in this year’s ‘Franchise Marketing Awards’. One of the industry’s most coveted, it celebrates innovative campaigns and the effective support offered by franchisors to their franchisees. Judged by an independent panel of experts, the awards are […]
Double franchise award nomination for Driver Hire
Driver Hire is a 2016 finalist in two important industry awards: bfa HSBC ‘Franchisor of the Year’ and the ‘Franchise Marketing Awards’ (‘Best Franchisee Marketing Support’ category). The latter is one of the industry’s most highly coveted, celebrating innovative campaigns and the effective support offered by franchisors to their franchisees. The winners will be announced […]
Visit us at the Olympia Franchise Exhibition in London
Driver Hire will be among the leading franchisors exhibiting at The British and International Franchise Exhibition at London’s Olympia, on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th March. If you’ve ever considered running your own business, and like the idea of being in business for yourself but not by yourself, this is the ideal opportunity to find […]
New finance director appointed as growth continues
At Driver Hire, we’re really pleased as part of Specialist People Services (SPS), the diversified recruitment group backed by private equity investor LDC, to announce the appointment of Paul McNulty as our group finance director. With more than 20 years’ experience since qualifying as a chartered accountant with EY, Paul specialises in managing growth, strategic planning and […]
Christmas cracker!
High demand for drivers during the run-up to Christmas has enabled Driver Hire to set a new trading record. During the week ended 13th December, its 104-office network’s combined weekly turnover soared to £2.35m. It’s the culmination of another calendar year of strong growth. Looking at the financial year to date, another outstanding overall trading […]