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For immediate release

15 October 2009

Morson Group PLC

("Morson" or "the Group")

Presented with "Best Recruitment Company" Award

Morson (AIM: MRN.L) the UK's leading provider of technical engineering personnel and project design solutions, supplying over 9,000 highly skilled white collar personnel to the aerospace and defence, nuclear and power, rail and other technical industries, is pleased to announce that its has been awarded the "Best Recruitment Company to work for" at the annual Recruitment International Awards.

Already ranked as the UK's no. 1 Technical Recruitment company, Morson was chosen above some of the biggest names in the recruitment industry for the category of those companies whose turnover exceeded £75 million. (As reported in September Morson had turnover of £219.9 million for the 6 month period 1st January to 30th June 2009).

Held on 13th October at the Gibson Hall in London, the awards and dinner are one of the biggest in the recruitment industry and attract recruiters from more than 110 companies representing over £15 billion of UK recruitment industry turnover.

Morson is currently celebrating its 40 year anniversary and continues to pride itself on its staff retention rate. At the 40 year celebration party in March, 18 employees were awarded with long service achievements, which ranged from 10 to 25 years. With the background and values of a family run business, the executive team take care of Morson employees.

Speaking after the event Ged Mason, Morson CEO said;

"This is a great night for the company and we are immensely proud to have won this award. We have always said our employees are our biggest asset and we are committed to rewarding staff through training, career opportunities and progression, competitive rewards and staff events. Our employees continue to demonstrate our key values of Excellence through Performance and we will continue this philosophy when we move into our new headquarters creating an enhanced modern environment of work for all our staff in the Manchester area."

For more details on the award winners, visit http://www.recruitment-international.co.uk/news/the-ri-awards-2009-1164.htm 

For further information, please contact:

Morson Group PLC Ged Mason, Chief Executive   Paul Gilmour, Finance Director Kevin Gorton, Managing Director	+44(0)161 707 1516
Buchanan Communications Diane Stewart / James Strong	+44(0)20 7466 5000
Brewin Dolphin (NOMAD) Matt Davis / Adam Rudd	+44(0)845 270 8600

Information on Morson Group plc

Morson is the UK's leading provider of technical engineering personnel and project design solutions, supplying highly skilled personnel to the aerospace, defence, nuclear power, rail and other industries.

Established in 1969 Morson is the largest and one of the longest established technical staffing companies in the UK. The Group currently provides personnel on long term assignments for some well known major infrastructure/defence projects. These include the construction of the Olympic Games Development, CVF aircraft carrier, rail maintenance and upgrades for Network Rail, Metronet and also nuclear design, decommissioning and asset improvement.

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