A Bradford recruitment agency which has expanded its client base by around 40 per cent has helped its parent company predict a £2m boost in turnover for 2010.

Frontline Recruitment Ltd is expecting a “bumper year” in 2010 and is beating the economic downturn and continuing to place around 1,000 people a day into work.

Partner Tony Wilmot said the company generated a turnover of more than £8 million last year and expects this to rise by around 25 per cent to £10.5 million in 2010.

He said the recession had seen a shift to firms hiring temporary workers and less willing to take on full-time permanent staff.

This had produced extra work for Frontline and enabled it not only to survive the tough economic climate but to prosper and grow.

He said: “Our food industry and manufacturing recruitment is still going strong. We currently work with several of the largest players in the market place. We place in excess of 1,000 people a day into temporary and contract roles.

“Our specialist technical recruiters have achieved even greater growth in market share and further strengthened the business.”

Frontline is celebrating its tenth anniversary since its launch by Tony and Elliott Kidd. It now operates across Yorkshire and the Midlands from offices in Bradford, Nottingham, Mansfield, Derby and Leicester.

Gross profits in 2009 were more than £2 million and the business signed up 162 new clients, which generated £1.45 million. The company also expanded into the IT market.

Frontline has bucked the trend in the recruitment industry as many firms shed staff, and now employs 40 staff.

The firm provides both temporary and permanent workers to an expanding range of employers in the public sector, manufacturing and production, warehouse and distribution, domestic services and packaging.

It has three divisions specialising in temporary and contract workers, corporate solutions, providing managed outsourced recruitment, and a permanent and professional staff operation.

Tony said: “It is quite unbelievable that we are now in our tenth year of trading. We opened our first office with a predicted turnover of £900,000, but the business quickly rocketed and over the next 15 months we generated a turnover of £2.5 million.

“Things have been pretty good for us ever since, and even in the downturn we are breaking the mould and continue to take on new clients on a month-by-month basis.