Yorkshire-based recruitment firm Industrial Personnel has been acquired in a management buy-out reports Insider Media. Managing director Phillip Buckley, who previously owned 50% of the company, has acquired the rest of the shares, putting the company into his sole ownership. Industrial Personnel, founded in 1995, provides temporary and permanent, skilled and semi-skilled blue-collar workers for industrial, commercial and technical roles for a number of the region's engineering and manufacturing businesses. The company said that, following completion of the MBO, it aims to build the infrastructure and management team required to take the business to the next level.