Every year, we look forward to pausing for a moment and giving a proper shout-out to our hard-working team who truly keep Berry Recruitment Group, and its brands, Berry Recruitment, Wild Recruitment, Wild Berry Associates and First Recruitment Services, running smoothly every day.
The winners were presented with their awards at our branches across the country, celebrating together and with our Managing Directors, Lee Gamble and Michelle Merritt.
Group Managing Director, Chris Chown, spoke about the ups and downs of 2024, as well as the fantastic achievements of the teams across the four brands. He said: “Whilst 2024 was definitely a challenging year for recruitment businesses we still found good reason to hand out over 60 awards in recognition of our fantastic teams, managers, consultants, business support and central support services colleagues.
With 21 star performer, top temp and perm consultant awards we still had plenty to celebrate with some exceptional individual performances. This was wonderfully complemented by 10 branch team awards and shields.
We also celebrated our business support and central support colleagues for their invaluable contribution to our continued success, with a presentation ceremony at our St Albans head office.
We were also immensely proud to celebrate another 10 long service awards ranging from 5 to 20 years’ service.
The awards always give us an opportunity to remember our Founder Tony Berry and we were delighted to award the Tony Berry Award to Mohammed Rauf for the second year running.
Well done to all the award winners and we wish everyone continued success in 2025.”
As well as the coveted Tony Berry Award, presented to Head of Rail, Mohammed Rauf, as the ‘combined top biller’ across the group, other awards included Board Recognition awards, Star Performer, Newcomer, and branch awards for Achievement of Net Profit.
Also included are the Long Service awards for the team members; most notably Patrick Casey, Operations Manager for our Harlow branch who has achieved 20 years of service with the group.
Congratulations to all our winners across Berry Recruitment, Wild Recruitment, Wild Berry Associates and First Recruitment Services. Looking ahead to the rest
of 2025 and into 2026, we’re excited for what is to come across the group.
Award winners:
Achievement of Net Profit Budget 2024
- Hendon branch – Berry
- Internal Recruitment branch – Berry
- Kings Cross branch – Berry
- Warrington branch – Berry
Board Recognition
- Internal Recruitment branch – Berry
- Kent branch – Berry
- Northampton branch – Berry
- Southampton Construction branch – Berry
- Warrington branch – Berry
- Carol Axworthy – Central Support Services
- Doreen Meyrick – Central Support Services
- Jade Smith – Central Support Services
- Michelle Marquis – Central Support Services
- Claire Sipple – Wild
- Siân Cox – Wild
Highest Growth BTP vs 2023
- Oxford branch – Berry
Long Service – 5 years
- Jade Smith – Central Support Services
- Sue Bennett – Central Support Services
- Hannah Foley – Wild
Long Service – 10 years
- Krasi Kirilova – Berry
- Neil Burgoyne – Berry
- Vicki Roe – Central Support Services
Long Service – 15 years
- Collette Ellis – Berry
- Rachel Murphy – Berry
- Charlene Sargeant – Central Support Services
Long Service – 20 years
- Patrick Casey – Berry
Most Profitable Branch
- Kings Cross – Berry
Net Profit Per Head
- Hendon – Berry
Outstanding Achievement
- Charlie Parker – Berry
- Emma Dean – Berry
- Lauren Kirby – Berry
- Megan Hopwood – Berry
- Sharon Copeland – Berry
Outstanding Business Support
- Atanaska Abdesetar – Berry
- Lauren Cranney – Berry
- Rebecca Hoxha – Berry
- Sandy Ngai – Berry
- Amy Robb – Berry
Social Media Award
- Oxford branch – Berry
Star Performer
- Helen Clarke – Berry
- Lisa Purcell – Berry
- Kathy Rusher – Berry
- Max Perceau – Berry
- Monika Paterak – Berry
- Pete Higgins – Berry
- Terrell Hunter – Berry
- Claire Graham – Wild
- Hannah Foley – Wild
- Lauren Ratcliffe – Wild
Tony Berry Award – Top Combined Biller
- Mohammed Rauf – Berry
Top Perm Biller 1st
- Kathy Rusher – Berry
Top Perm Biller 2nd
- Mark Smith – Wild
Top Temp Consultant 1st
- Mohammed Rauf – Berry
Top Temp Consultant 2nd
- Amanda Holmes – Berry
Top Temp Consultant 3rd
- Charlie Parker – Berry
Top Temp Consultant 4th
- Krasi Kirilova – Berry
Top Temp Consultant 5th
- Sharon Copeland – Berry
Top Temp Consultant 6th
- Emma Dean – Berry
Top Temp Consultant 7th
- Lauren Kirby – Berry
Berry Manager of the Year
- Kathy Rusher – Berry
Wild Manager of the Year
- Lara Love – Wild
Berry Newcomer
- Karolina Markuszewska – Berry
Wild Newcomer
- Shaun Merritt – Wild
Berry Rookie
- Chloe Trueman – Berry
