British recruiter PageGroup's first-half profit plummets as hiring slows
12/08/2025 07:31
Aug 12 (Reuters) - British recruiter PageGroup PAGE.L reported a 99% drop in first-half profit on Tuesday, as a "slight deterioration" in hiring activity in its biggest markets France and Germany weighed on performance. The company reported pretax profit of 0.2 million pounds ($268,660) for the six-month period ended June 30, compared with 27.7 million pounds in the prior year. ($1 = 0.7444 pounds) (Reporting by Raechel Thankam Job and Nithyashree R B in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu and Sherry Jacob-Phillips) ((RaechelThankam.Job@thomsonreuters.com;))