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Free event to provide advice on pensions


CWMBRAN-BASED account- ancy firm Green & Co is holding a free auto-enrol- ment seminar next week . The event will be held on


Wednesday, October 22, from 9am to 11am at GreenMeadow Golf & Country Club. All UK employers must


enrol their workforce in a workplace pension scheme within the next three years, which makes it imperative that employers start to pre- pare now for auto-enrol- ment so that they can budg- et, mitigate the costs and cause as minimal disrup- tion to their business. At the seminar, experts in


the field will cover what auto-enrolment is, when it is being introduced, as well as who it will affect. The seminar will also out-


line the seven steps of auto-enrolment including what employers need to do next. Green & Co is regulated


by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. To book a place on the


seminar, please contact Green & Co on 01633 871122 or email katie. williams@greenandco.com


Matt Southall, managing director of Acorn, Newport


ONE of the leading voices in the recruitment industry, Recruitment International, has released its annual Top 250 report – ranking Newport-based Acorn in the top one per cent of more than 9,000 recruitment companies in the UK. The ranking makes it the high- est-placed recruitment compa- ny inWales for the tenth year running.


By Jo Barnes 01633 777240 jba@gwent-wales.co.uk Twitter @SWABusiness


The Recruitment International Top 250 report is the only complete report on the UKIndustry listing all agencies with a turnover in excess of £5 million. This report provides informa-


Tuesday, October 14, 2014


Acorn ranked in top 1% of UK recruitment irms


tion on industry size, howmany companies,which recruitment companies specialise inwhich sectors and features the top companies in a multitude of dis- ciplines and sectors. Acorn has also been ranked in


the top 20 companies in theUK in a number of key industry sectors such as top 20 public sec- tor, top 20 by temps or contrac- tors and the top 20 technical, the onlyWelsh firmlisted in any of the top 20 categories. Matt Southall, Acorn manag-


ing director, said:“We set our- selves exceptionally high stand- ards at Acorn and work hard to ensure that they are met. “To be consistently recognised


at the top of our industry is reward for the great efforts not just of thosewho work here, but also of the thousands of people we place intowork every day and the fantastic clients we work with. “The recruitment industry


has certainly had a difficult few years and it is reassuring that the sector is nowsteadily pick- ing up with Acorn one of the companies taking the lead.” With more than 20 years in the business, Acorn has itsUK headquarters at the Celtic Springs Business Park in Newport and operates from 38 branches acrossWales and the SouthWest, NorthWest and South East of England. There are three Acorn Global


offices in Australia. Acorn places up to 6,500 people


into the workplace with around 850 different clients each week. The group also delivers train-


ing to more than 1,000 individu- als and makes 1,700 permanent placements every year.


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AFAMILYbusiness based in Cwmbran is playing a major role in multi-million projects in the south of England. Woodside Joinery operate


from the LlantarnamIndustrial Park but their products grace £20 million homes. The company,which has been


in business for 37 years, and which employs 30 people, pro- duces bespoke staircases, doors and windows. And at the Grand Designs


Showat Birmingham’s NEC, company sales manager Jason Green was busy showing visi- torswhat quality the company could supply. “In the last eight months we


have bought a hi-tech machine costing £160,000 and most of our work is in central London. “We made a very ornate stair-


case for a Sheikh’s house in Ascot and we are working on a


Jason Green chats to prospective customers at the show


project for a £20 million home, producing stairs, doors and win- dows for the home,” he said. One prospective client asked if they couldmake a slide to go


alongside his staircase. Most of the company’s work is


in the south of England but they are making stairs and windows for a Penarth home.


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