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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]Has recently purchased Mannings Heath Golf Club, buying out the majority share from the Exclusive Group.

Awards

  • OBE (Order of the British Empire) 2006 New Years Honours for ‘services to enterprise’[4]
  • 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[5]
  • Fast Track 100 ‘Fastest Growing UK Companies’ 2004, 2003, 2002 - No.1 in 2002[6]

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 Honours System, Cabinet Office". 2006. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
  5. ^ "Management Today". Haymarket. 2005. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
  6. ^ "'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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