Enhance Media announced today the completion of its acquisition by Giles Guest.
Guest initially purchased Enhance Media in June 2008 and since then has worked with the company’s founders, Tim Elkington and Alastair Cartwright, on a number of high profile projects including an enormously successful annual online recruitment conference, growth of a link building and SEO business and the largest NORAS survey to date.
With the full acquisition completed on 31st March 2009 the company announced the departure of the two previous Directors. Commenting, former director Alastair Cartwright said “We’re proud of the market leading position we reached with Enhance and think that the sale and investment will enable the company to move forward and achieve many of its strategic, long term goals.”
The business has embarked on a series of new initiatives under Guest’s control including significant investment in a new research project and development of Enhance Media’s core online recruitment strategy, training, SEO and job board advertising services. Particular investment and development of the flagship online recruitment research project NORAS is scheduled for the next 3 months.
Commenting, Giles Guest stated “This is an exciting time for online recruitment and Enhance Media is seeing an increased interest from people requiring more justification for online recruitment spend. We have big plans for the next year and I’m excited about the future of the business.”
For more information on the future of Enhance Media or NORAS, please contact Giles Guest on 01483 719020 or email giles.guest@enhancemedia.co.uk.
Note to editors:
Enhance Media: Established in 2001, Enhance Media is the UK’s leading online recruitment communications consultancy. It provides research, strategy, training and advertising services to recruitment professionals to enable them to recruit more efficiently and cost effectively through the use of technology and online media.
NORAS: The annual Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) is run by Enhance Media and is the largest piece of online recruitment research in Europe. NORAS 2009 surveyed over 50,000 online job seekers between September and December 2008. The results were released in Feb 2009 and are available to download free at www.noras.co.uk. An interactive tool is also available free and combines NORAS audience data with independent ABCe audited web site traffic figures to enable recruiters to compare job sites and choose the right job board for their recruitment needs. Use ‘journalist’ as your user name and ‘journalist’ as your password.
Contact:
Claire Bridges, Enhance Media, 01483 719 026 (Main number 01483 719 020)