Robert Walters plc

Robert Walters

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Type	Public
Traded as	LSE: RWA
Industry	Recruitment
Founded	1985
Key people	Leslie Van de Walle(Chairman) Robert Walters (Chief Executive Officer) Giles Daubeney (Chief Operating Officer) Alan Bannatyne (Group Finance Director and Company Secretary)
Revenue	￡528.1 million (2011)
Net income	￡183.4 million (2011)
Number of employees	2,000+ (2012)
Website	www.robertwalters.com

Robert Walters plc is a specialist professional recruitment consultancy and focuses on placing professionals into permanent, contract and temporary positions at all levels of seniority. Established in 1985, the business has a global presence spanning five continents.

History

Established in 1985 by current Chief Executive Officer, Robert Walters, Robert Walters plc today has an international network of 53 offices in 24 countries.

Originally established to place accountants into corporates in London, the Group now recruits across multiple disciplines. In July 1996, Robert Walters was listed on the London Stock Exchange. A year later in 1997, it set up a wholly owned subsidiary, Resource Solutions, provided recruitment process outsourcing solutions.

Robert Walters acquired Tristar, an Australian recruitment business in 1997 and merged with US staffing company, StaffMark Inc., in August 1998. The company demerged two years later, re-listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2000, same year won the Best IPO Award of Shares magazine.

In February 1999, the Group launched its first global Salary Survey. The salary survey offers an annual insight into the salaries presently commanded in each market that Robert Walters operates in.

Robert Walters acquired Dunhill Management Services in 2001, and launched Walters Interim, its junior professional contract recruitment business into France in 2005, Belgium in 2006 and the Netherlands in 2008. In February 2008, the Group acquired Talent Spotter, a specialist recruitment business headquartered in China with offices in Shanghai and Suzhou.

Operation

Robert Walters

Robert Walters specialises in permanent and contract recruitment across all industry sectors. Operating at all levels of seniority the company finds jobs for workers in the accounting & finance, banking, legal, technology, sales & marketing, HR, support and administration, engineering, and supply chain, procurement & logistics fields.

Resource Solutions

In 1997, Robert Walters Group established Resource Solutions, a recruitment process outsourcing business. Services offered include "discovery audits" (analysis of an organization’s recruitment processes), supplier relationship management, direct recruitment, - development and execution of client brand led talent attraction strategies, "TalentSource" (a web-based recruitmenttechnology system, and payroll services.

Walters Interim

The Group’s junior professional contract business in France and Belgium specializes in the placement of interim professionals on projects and in senior finance positions. Interim management acts as a solution for businesses dealing with challenges such as strategy change, rapid growth, M&A, process re-engineering or crisis.

Interim roles usually include Business Analyst and Financial Analyst, Interim CFO, Interim Financial Director, Interim Financial and Interim Management Accountant, Interim Project Accountant, Interim Project Managers and Interim Program Manager, and Interim Risk Manager. Interim professionals are placed in roles across the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Eindhoven.

Walters People

Walters People, the Group’s junior professional contract business in the Netherlands, specializes in the recruitment of finance professionals. The business recruits contract candidates mainly for the areas of accounting, finance, controlling, salary administration, credit collecting and business analysis.

Company milestones

• Established in 1985 by Robert Walters, Chief Executive
• 1988: opened an office in Brussels, Belgium
• 1990: opened an office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 1994: opened an office in New York, USA
• 1996: opened an office in Sydney, Australia
• 1996: listing on the London Stock Exchange
• 1997: opened offices in Melbourne, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand and Hong Kong
• 1997: established Resource Solutions to handle client’s outsourced human resource departments/functions
• December 1997: acquired leading Australian recruitment company, TriStar
• 1998: opened offices in Johannesburg, South Africa and Singapore
• August 1998: merged with US-based StaffMark, Inc.
• 1999: opened offices in Dublin, Ireland; Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan
• February 1999: launched the Group’s first Salary Survey, now in its 10th annual edition
• July 2000: re-floated on London Stock Exchange
• 2001: opened offices in Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth in Australia; Manchester; and Luxembourg
• February 2001: acquisition of Dunhill Management Services
• 2003: opened an office in Guildford
• 2005: opened offices in Birmingham, UK and Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• 2005: launched the Walters Interim, France, junior contract professional business into France
• 2006: launched the Walters Interim, Belgium, junior contract professional business into Belgium
• 2006: opened offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Lyon, France; and Wellington, New Zealand
• 2007: opened offices in Madrid, Spain and Osaka, Japan
• 2008: opened an office in Strasbourg, France
• February 2008: acquisition of Talent Spotter, a specialist recruitment business in mainland China with offices in Shanghai and Suzhou
• 2008: opened offices in Bangkok, Thailand; Kowloon, Hong Kong; Strasbourg, France and Shanghai and Suzhou in China
• July 2008: launched the Asia Job Index – tracking advertisement volumes for professional positions across job boards and national newspapers in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore
• 2008: launched the Walters Interim, Netherlands, junior contract professional business into the Netherlands
• 2009: opened an office in Zurich, Switzerland
• 2010: opened an office in Seoul, Korea; São Paulo in Brazil and Düsseldorf in Germany
• 2011: opened offices in: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Nanjing, China; Frankfurt, Germany; Jakarta, Indonesia and Chatswood, Australia
• 2012: opened offices in: San Francisco, USA; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Milton Keynes, UK and Parramatta, Australia
• 2014: opened office in: Toulouse, France

External links

• Robert Walters Official Website