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*CBI ([[Confederation of British Industry]]) Entrepreneur of the Year, 2003
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==Personal life==
==Personal life==

Revision as of 23:53, 14 January 2016

Penny Streeter OBE (born 1 August 1967) is an English entrepreneur[1][2] and managing director of the A24 Group, comprising Ambition 24hours, Arabella Health Staffing and the NS Health Staffing. Penny Streeter established the medical staffing group in Sutton, England, in 1996, working with just her mother Marion. The A24 Group has turnover of £70 million, with profits of £5.5million (y/e 30 June 2011). There are no outside investors or loan capital funds.

Penny Streeter

Early life

Born in Zimbabwe in 1967, Penny Streeter left Zimbabwe in 1979 and was educated at Alberton High in Johannesburg until 1983. She left South Africa for the UK at the age of 12 with her mother Marion. She started work in the recruitment sector after leaving school at age 15.

Career

In 1989 Penny Streeter launched her own recruitment business: it failed and she also divorced, which left her homeless and penniless, finding refuge in homeless accommodation with her three young children.

After some years working in other people's recruitment businesses, Streeter tried again in 1995 with a new venture, funded by evenings moonlighting as a children's party entertainer. Ambition 24hours was launched in 1996. Ambition 24hours is a temporary staffing agency that fulfills the need of a 24-hour staffing service in the nursing sector. Following rapid growth, over the next decade the company expands the service to cover locum doctors, allied health professionals, carers, social workers and teachers/lecturers—and it establishes a national network of UK branch offices.[3]

In 2004, Ambition 24hours expanded into South Africa, with ‘back office’ facilities for the UK and SA markets. It also launched an £11 million, three year investment plan in South Africa, based from 130,000 sq ft (12,000 m2) freehold premises acquired in Cape Town along with initialising SA locum and nursing agency services. 2004 also marked the launch of domiciliary home care services: private nursing and care assistance was provided directly to people at home for post-operative, geriatric, paediatric and other care.

In 2006, the company made its first major acquisition: that of South African agency NSSA (Nursing Services of South Africa),[4] the largest provider of temporary nursing personnel in the country, supplying over 3,000 staff each month. Also, a second office opened at 50 on Long Street, Cape Town.

In 2009, Nursing Services of the UK and Locum Services of the UK, divisions of NS Health Staffing, was launched.

In 2010, Arabella Health Staffing Ltd – a wholly owned subsidiary of the A24 Group – acquired BNA, The British Nursing Association, and its associated nursing agency brands Grosvenor Nursing and Mayfair Specialist Nursing, from former owners Pinnacle Staffing Group Plc.

In 2013, Penny Streeter acquired The Benguela Cove Lagoon Wine Estate, Hermanus, Cape Town, South Africa. The 210 hectare estate is low density (124 residential plots) and comprises over 70 hectares of vineyards, olive groves and lavender fields with views across one of South Africa's largest lagoons and the important nature reserve Kogelberg World Biosphere.

In 2014, Penny Streeter launches Lakeside Lodge & Spa in Sedgefield, Knysna, the small hotel immediately achieved 5-star status and is one of only a handful on South Africa’s Garden Route. 2014, also saw the opening of the Benguela Brasserie & Restaurant, which is situated within the lodge.

In 2015, Penny Streeter opens the second restaurant in the Benguela group, Benguela on Main, a fine dining restaurant with "The Taster" an innovative wine shop and tasting room showcasing Benguela Cove Lagoon Wine Estate’s award-winning wines in Somerset West, Western Cape.[5]

Today Ambition 24hours is a multi-million dollar medical staff recruitment and management organisation operating with multiple brands in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Streeter's company has interviewers based nationally throughout the UK and South Africa and employs over 500 office staff across the world, with 70,000 personnel on its books - locum doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, care assistants, teachers and social workers for major institutional service providers throughout the UK and South Africa.

Awards

  • OBE (Order of the British Empire) 2006 New Years Honours for ‘services to enterprise’[6]
  • CBI (Confederation of British Industry) Entrepreneur of the Year, 2003
  • 'Management Today' magazine, Top 100 Entrepreneurs: Top woman, and No. 13 overall for two years, 2003, 2004[7]
  • Fast Track 100 ‘Fastest Growing UK Companies’ 2004, 2003, 2002 - No.1 in 2002[8]

Personal life

Penny Streeter is married to Nick Rea and has four children. Named - Adam Streeter (28), Giselle Streeter (23), Bonnie Streeter (21) and Matilda Rea (14).

See also

References

  1. ^ "'Pennywise route to success'". Financial Times. 2004. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
  2. ^ "'How I made it: Penny Streeter of A24 Group '". Financial Times. 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  3. ^ Stockdale, Sue (2005). Secrets of Successful Women Entrepreneurs: How Ten Leading Business Women Turned a Good Idea into a Fortune. Lean Marketing Press. ISBN 1-905430-03-5.
  4. ^ "'UK medical agency buys into SA'". www.southafrica.info. 2006. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
  5. ^ Nicci, Botha (19 October 2015). "Rags-to-riches: the journey of Penny Streeter". Bizcommunity.com. Bizcommunity. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  6. ^ "UK Honours System, Cabinet Office". 2006. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
  7. ^ "Management Today". Haymarket. 2005. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
  8. ^ "'Ambition Recruitment'". Fast Track 100/ The Sunday Times. 2002. Archived from the original on October 29, 2006. Retrieved 2008-12-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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