- Blue Arrow
Blue Arrow Limited is an employment and recruitment agency in the
United Kingdom . Founded in 1982, it providestemporary work and more permanent staff to office, industrial, catering, driving, construction and IT industries. The head office is inLuton , Bedfordshire.Ownership
Blue Arrow UK is part of the Impellam Group plc which is an international staffing business with operations in the UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand. Impellam is listed on the
London Stock Exchange and trades on theAlternative Investment Market (AIM).Branding
Blue Arrow UK operates through different names and brands in the UK. These include Blue Arrow High Street, Blue Arrow Managed Services, Blue Arrow Driving, Blue Arrow Catering, ABC Contract Services, ABC Professional Services, Blend and Austin Benn.
Memberships and accreditations
Blue Arrow is a member of the
Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and isInvestors in People accredited.Blue Arrow offers a range of jobs for 16 and overPrevious ownership
The Corporate Services Group (CSG) owned Blue Arrow UK until CSG was acquired by Impellam on 7th May 2008, the same day as it was merged with the
Carlisle Group (UK) Ltd. [ [http://www.impellam.com/impellam.asp?shownews=238&SiteID=93&PageID=2918&SectionID=0 Impellam News] ]NatWest Financial Scandal
In 1987 Blue Arrow was at the centre of a financial scandal when employees of
National Westminster Bank 's investment arm, County NatWest, covered up a failed issue of £873m of new stock (intended to finance the takeover ofManpower Inc. , another employment agency). 14 former bank officials were tried in 1992, but only four were convicted and these convictions were later overturned on appeal. The appeal court judgement described the original trial, which had lasted 13 months, as a "costly disaster" and the case is often cited as an indication of the problems of involving juries in lengthy and complex financial fraud prosecutions. At the time, the trial was estimated to have been the second-longest criminal trial in English history, and to have cost £40m. Blue Arrow itself was cleared of any wrongdoing. [ [http://dofonline.co.uk/blogs/business/a-rock-by-any-other-name5353/ Director of Finance Online] ]ee also
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UK agency worker law Footnotes
External links
* [http://www.impellam.com/ Impellam Group]
* [http://www.bluearrow.co.uk/Homepage.aspx Blue Arrow UK]
* [http://www.bluearrowmanagedservices.co.uk/ Blue Arrow Managed Services]
* [http://www.bluearrowdriving.co.uk/ Blue Arrow Driving]
* [http://www.bluearrowcatering.co.uk/ Blue Arrow Catering]
* [http://www.abccontractservices.co.uk/ ABC Contract Services]
* [http://www.blendrecruitment.com/ Blend]
* [http://www.austinbenn.co.uk/ Austin Benn]
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