OBE for UK Recruitment Entrepreneur Penny Streeter in New Years Honours

Penny Streeter has been awarded an OBE in the 2006 New Years Honours for ‘services to women’s enterprise and to business.’

(PRWEB) January 1, 2006 -- Penny Streeter - founder and managing director of recruitment agency Ambition 24hours and campaigner for entrepreneurs in the UK - has been awarded an OBE in the 2006 New Years Honours for ‘services to women’s enterprise and to business’.

Penny Streeter and her mother Marion set up family-owned Ambition 24hours in 1996, without investors or bank funding. Revenue is now £60 million, with no borrowings, and the company has featured in the ‘Fast Track 100’ of fastest growing companies for three years.

Penny Streeter was ‘CBI Entrepreneur of the Year, 2003’ and is the ‘Management Today’ top woman entrepreneur. She is a regular commentator in the media and speaker on the conference platform on a range of issues of importance to entrepreneurs - in particular on the obstacles imposed by an ever-increasing volume of legislation in the work-place.

Ambition 24hours specialises in temporary recruitment and placement of locum doctors, nurses, home carers, social workers, teachers and lecturers. It was the first UK recruitment agency to offer a full 24-7 service for temporary personnel, according to Penny Streeter. The company has 19 branches nationwide for registration and provision of local positions for qualified staff for both short and long-term contracts.

Further information:    

Ambition 24hours, Ambition House, 92-96 Lind Road, Sutton

Surrey SM1 4PL Tel: 0871 87 333 33

www.a24group.co.uk

Media Information:    

Patrick Rea, Rea-TMA Marketing Group. Tel: 0208 870 4976

Fax: 0709 237 9330. E-m: patrick.rea@rea-tma.com

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