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Staffline - Profit materially above guidance

June 2021

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  • Epic Code:
  • STAF
  • Price:
  • 54.5p
Staffline is a blue collar staffing agency, predominantly working in the food industry, supplying staff for ready meal factories and the like, as well as logistics/warehousing staff. Its other business is PeoplePlus, which runs adult education courses, skills-based employability programmes and provides training to prisoners. The shares have featured before on SCSW. Regular readers will recall that I sold them from Growth Portfolio 3 in May ‘17 at 1225p as I felt momentum was fading. Not long after I sold out, its two divisions hit problems simultaneously. The Staffing division fell foul of certain national minimum wage rules. For years, it had been treating the five or ten minutes workers spent changing into required clothing on a ...

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