Staffline Delivers Strong 2025 Results as Recruitment Refocus and New Wins Lift Profits

Staffline Group (LSE:STAF) reported a strong full-year performance for 2025 following its strategic shift to a pure-play recruitment model, with results coming in well ahead of market expectations. Revenue increased 11.5% to £1.11 billion, gross profit rose 10.6% to £78.3 million and operating profit jumped 28.3% to £12.7 million, reflecting improved execution and market share gains.

Growth was driven primarily by the group’s core UK blue-collar recruitment business, where it secured additional share and benefited from a major new logistics partnership. This contract added around 1,800 temporary workers and contributed to peak trading hours reaching a five-year high. In Ireland, permanent recruitment fees grew at a double-digit rate, while the group also made profitable progress in recruitment process outsourcing and managed services. Net cash declined over the period due to planned working capital investment and the continuation of a £7.5 million share buyback programme, but management highlighted stronger profit conversion and a robust balance sheet.

Looking ahead, Staffline believes its streamlined focus, strong new business pipeline and the fragmented nature of the recruitment market position it well to benefit from ongoing customer consolidation of labour suppliers. While profitability remains an area to continue improving, recent contract momentum and operational progress provide a supportive backdrop for further growth.

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Staffline Group is one of the UK’s leading recruitment companies, operating through two main divisions: Recruitment GB and Recruitment Ireland. Recruitment GB supplies flexible blue-collar labour, providing around 40,000 workers per day across more than 500 client sites in sectors such as supermarkets, food processing, logistics, driving, manufacturing and beverages. Recruitment Ireland delivers end-to-end recruitment solutions, supplying around 4,500 staff per day and offering RPO, managed services, and temporary and permanent staffing across public and private sectors, with a particular emphasis on health, social care and public services across the island of Ireland.