Since successfully acquiring a grant from the Regional Growth Fund (RGF), Wirral-based Cabfind.com has expanded their workforce with twenty new members of staff, and is currently recruiting for a further ten positions.

Cabfind.com are a ground transportation B2B market leader, managing the private hire transport needs of corporate and public sector clients (including the NHS, Her Majesty’s Prison Service, and Channel 4 News). In particular the company has experienced growth in its IT department, with its team increasing from five to fifteen, as it prepares to create a new high-calibre software development centre at its headquarters in Birkenhead.

This new centre will enable Cabfind.com to become the leading provider of private hire vehicle booking platforms in the UK and overseas. The company will also create a further thirty jobs over the next three years, with three of these position already recruiting.

Having achieved considerable sales growth over the last six months, Cabfind.com has also recruited ten new members of staff into its operations team and is looking to appoint a further three. Sales revenue for the first six months of this year were up by £1 million compared with January to June 2013, representing a 12.5 per cent increase.

The business is also looking to recruit two members of staff to its client services team as a direct result of some of its largest clients (Virgin Trains, DB Schenker and First ScotRail) recently extending their contracts for a further five years. Cabfind.com also has a portfolio comprised of more than 80 corporate clients, many of whom have been with the company since its inception in 2006, who continue to renew their service contracts with the Wirral business each year.

Chris Jordan, managing director of Cabfind.com, said:

 “It is crucially important to us that we recruit the right people with the right skills to facilitate our ambitious growth plans. We are a SME headquartered in Birkenhead and, in the next five years, we want to turn our business into a global brand.

“We aim to grow from our current turnover of £15m to £50m, doubling our number of jobs from 65 last year to 125 by 2018. Finding and nurturing dynamic, ambitious employees is therefore key if we are to become the largest, independent privately-owned provider of managed ground transportation services, firstly in the UK and then beyond.

“The local district and the wider Merseyside economy will also greatly benefit from our growth, particularly from the sustainable employment, up-skilling, and training of new staff which will be required to deliver our software development centre and the research and development activities created by it.”

As well as recruiting new members of staff for its IT, operations and client services teams, Cabfind.com is also looking to appoint staff in its sales and marketing and accounts teams. For further information about currently available positions, visit cabfind.com or email your interest to hr@cabfind.com

Words: Daniel Pearce

Source: Cabfind