Encore, encore! Gi Group brings in Pete Taylor as managing director following Encore acquistion

Recruitment agency Gi Group, a company with branches in Basingstoke and Andover, has hired Pete Taylor as its new managing director following the company’s acquisition of Encore Personnel. 

Gi Group provides temporary and permanent recruitment, staffing and jobs in a variety of sectors.

Gi Group logo, credit: Gi Group

Pete takes over from Paul Smith who has overseen the company’s UK growth for over twenty years. With over 26 years of recruitment experience and 17 of these being spent growing Encore up until its acquisition, Pete is a more than capable successor. 

He said: “I’m honoured to be taking the baton, as it were, from Paul who has demonstrated in the short time we have worked together how investment in and dedication to the people of Gi Group is the key to success in this very important role.

“Having steered the Encore ship through some of the choppiest waters in our history, during the pandemic and its aftermath, I feel prepared for, whilst also incredibly humbled, to be taking on the responsibility of the position of MD for our now much larger, united business, which has the combined potential to change thousands of lives for the better.”