If you are looking to be part of a team delivering exceptional results and pushing the recognition of Procurement as a function; please submit your CV to enquiry@armstrongnewman.com

Andrew Wilson recently migrated to Singapore and will be leading the growth and development of this market. Andrew is a founding Partner of Armstrong Newman and we believe his knowledge and passion in the executive supply chain arena will have an immediate impact for us in this important geography.

We would also like to welcome Marc Howard to the Partnership. Marc has lived in Singapore for over six years now and has operated in the executive supply chain space throughout this period. Marc joins us as a Partner and we are confident his extensive network and track record in the region will deliver significant benefit to our client and candidate network.

In line with our clear vision and strategy, Armstrong Newman International Pte Ltd will mirror the approach and philosophy we have worked to from our inception.

As always, Andrew and Marc would be delighted to hear from supply chain and procurement practitioners in the region who would like to confidentially discuss their career aspirations or executive recruitment needs.

We are very keen to hear from management to board level procurement and supply chain executives who would like to join our international network.

We celebrated our first Anniversary this month and the start of our second year of trading.

2010 was a very rewarding year for Armstrong Newman. We received a significant amount of support from our established client and candidate networks and have secured preferred supplier status with a number of global blue chip organisations.

2011 presents a fantastic opportunity for us to consolidate our strong 2010 performance and re-invest in hiring, our global footprint and the development of our brand. We will be driving international growth initiatives over the next two years, focussing on the regions where procurement and supply chain is developing quickly and there is a demand for talent. We believe there is a need in these markets for specialist, high value recruitment services that Armstrong Newman has the capability and network to deliver against.

We would like to thank all of the clients and candidates that we have worked with in 2010 and look forward to working with you all in the future.

The first six months of trading for us have been good. Whilst waiting for restrictive covenants to lapse we have had the opportunity to build new client and candidate relationships. After two frantic months at the beginning of the year, establishing our infrastructure, agreeing business plans and engaging the market, these new relationships bore fruit with two successful client appointments. The second quarter was very productive and yielded further success.

Six months in and we now have several formalised client relationships in place with old client relationships now coming back into scope. We are confident these relationships will go from strength to strength over the coming months and years and we are strongly encouraged by new clients now approaching us through recommendation from the good work we have done so far this year as Armstrong Newman International.

As an international procurement, supply chain and logistics specialist we have been working hard to continue to develop our global client and candidate base. So far this year we have been actively recruiting in South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. In particular, the emerging markets have been particularly active for us. The demand for high calibre, globally mobile talent has been high with many organisations looking to appoint experienced procurement and supply chain professionals to bring valuable intellectual property into developing countries whose supply chains are less developed.

Most recently, the professional Interim Management market place has been slowly improving with day rate levels beginning to rally as the influx of permanent executives working in the interim space reduced with improvements in the volume of senior permanent executive requirements.

The second half of the year looks promising when looking at the bigger global economic landscape and we are optimistic and looking forward to continuing to grow and thrive in a competitive market where our specialisation, network and passion to deliver continue to differentiate us from our competitors.

In fact some of our clients are now looking to hire new key members of their management teams to push on with functional transformation within their procurement, supply chain and logistics functions.

We are also seeing more candidates coming to see us that have been sitting tight for the last six to twelve months waiting for the economy and certainty to improve.