Recruitment group Premier has bought a 23% stake in UK recruitment company Imprint. Last month, the Irish company entered a bidding war for Imprint, making an approach worth around £45.2m (€60m) in cash for the company.
Today, it said it had bought 8.7 million shares at a price of 115p, the price at which it pitched its approach.
Set up in 1988, Premier employs 350 people and has 18 offices in Ireland and the UK. It had turnover of €85m last year.
