UK-based recruitment firm Acorn, which is owned by Synergie, announced that it has been awarded a new contract to provide temporary dairy workers to Yeo Valley, a dairy company based in Somerset, England.

Acorn has worked with Yeo Valley for several years already, with the new contract involving supplying all temporary production workers to various Yeo Valley sites around south-west England, including Blagdon, Cannington, Highbridge, Crewkerne and Newton Abbot.

Yeo Valley and Acorn will be working together to continue to provide vacancies for people throughout the south west of England, and will also provide relevant training and key support for people looking to progress into longer-term roles.

South West Divisional Manager for Acorn Noel Hoare, commented, “We’re thrilled to have been awarded the contract to provide temporary production workers to Yeo Valley, and we’re very much looking forward to working with them to support their ongoing temporary recruitment needs.”

Anita Calverley, HR Director at Yeo Valley, also commented, “To ensure we have the right supply of talented, reliable people to meet production needs, we’ve decided it’s the right time for us to appoint a single recruitment partner.  Acorn came out on top against all the criteria we were looking for in a trusted partner.”

“We’ve been impressed with Acorn in the run-up to this contract going live, and we’ve already begun working with them on all of our sites across the South West.  Their high-street branch network matches our site locations very well, and they’ve demonstrated that they understand our business needs and can provide us with great people when needed, complementing our core permanent workforce.”

Acorn was established in 1992 and has grown to more than 40 branches across the UK, Dublin and Australia. Acorn Recruitment is part of the Acorn Group which consists of Acorn, Acorn Global Recruitment and Synaco and is part of France-based recruitment group Synergie.

No further details of the contract were disclosed.