CONNECTIONS, the Sale-based recruitment specialist, is celebrating its 30th year in business- and during that time it has secured more than five million days of work for temporary workers across Trafford and Greater Manchester.

The family-run business was established in 1985 to provide permanent, interim and contract workers throughout the Manchester area.

Since then, its geographical reach has expanded across the North West, throughout the country and into London where it has just launched a new office.

Connections, has offices in Sale, Manchester city centre and London and focuses on all office based commercial roles including finance and marketing. At the end of 2014 it launched an elite division Halecroft Recruitment covering senior appointments for salaries in excess of £50,000.

The London office is based in Covent Garden and the Connections London team provides temporary, permanent, interim and contract workers for employers in the capital.

Connections employs 20 staff and turnover last year was £6m.

Building on the recent success of national volume contracts, the business is gearing up for more growth and is on track to double this within the next five years.

Jonathan Dobkin, director, who is based in the company’s Sale office, said: “We’re delighted to have reached this milestone and we’re proud to have placed so many people in roles during the past 30 years.

"We’ve seen some incredible people and worked with some amazing clients over the years. Our company ethos remains the same as our first day in business - that is to provide passionate and expert service to our clients by working in partnership with them to achieve the highest level of recruitment throughout their business.

"There has been steady growth in the economy and we’ve noticed an upturn in the number of people we’re placing. We’re looking forward to seeing more growth during our five year expansion plan to 2020 where we’re aiming for a £12m turnover and expanding our presence in key markets including London where we’ve just launched a new office.”