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Nottingham-based Blusource is set to expand with a move into Birmingham, Insider can reveal. The recruitment business, servicing legal, accounting and banking, will open its first office outside of the East Midlands next year. Bluesource chief executive, Andrew Springhall, told Insider that it had always been a "top priority" for the company to expand into the West Midlands.

Blusource will also be one of the patrons of Birmingham Forward during 2011.

Birmingham Forward is an independent, inclusive, not-for-profit, membership organisation that was established in 1990. Its role is to “promote the strength, range and depth of services of businesses to the widest possible audience across the city of Birmingham”.

Andrew Springhall, Blusource chief executive, told Insider: “Over 50 per cent of our revenue can be attributed to our relationships with West Midlands based law firms and accountants.

"Having launched back in 2008 from our East Midlands office it has always been a top priority to have more of a presence in the West Midlands. Joining forces with Birmingham Forward will improve the service and fresh approach to recruitment that our West Midlands clients already receive.”

Blusource was set up back in late 2008 by Springhall. He said his vision was to create a “superior professional search and selection business across the region”. Since then Blusource has developed strategic partnerships with a number of legal and accounting practices, said the chief executive.

Earlier in the year, Blusource, was revealed as the third party in the merger between Nottingham law firm Berryman and West Midlands-based Shakespeare Putsman. Springhall said at the time: “Recession aside, mergers, takeovers and general restructuring is a growing trend for law firms as changes outlined in the Legal Services Act (2007) will come fully into force in 2012.

"With some experts calling the Act ‘the big bang for the legal profession’ the market is facing serious upheaval and intense competition, with many traditional business models in the sector being forced to change or dramatically lose out.”