Staffing group Brunel expects to book ‘significant’ sales growth in 2008, the company said at the presentation of its 2007 earnings on Friday.

Operating profit last year was up 45% at €51m while turnover rose 16% to almost €580m.
The company focuses on providing highly-qualified staff in the oil and gas, air travel, ICT and financial services sectors. Some 50% of sales comes from the energy sector, with the Netherlands and Germany its main countries of focus, news agency ANP said.