Headford Group’s 20th anniversary

Entrepreneur Craig Headford’s logistics industry business and recruitment agency, Headford Group, has reached a significant milestone: 20 years of successfully placing people in strategic logistics roles around the world.

Craig joined the freight industry at 16 and spent the next 14 years in both operations and sales. In 2002, he decided to combine his experience in logistics and recruitment into what became Headford Group. That’s 35 years of almost uninterrupted experience and knowledge.

He says, ‘I believed I could add significant value to the bottom line of a lot of my contacts in the industry, combining my overall knowledge of the forwarding industry and my extensive recruitment training from a market-leading recruitment business.’

The core of the Headford Group success is Craig’s ethos: that the need to create a business that is more a family of personnel than a group of individuals who lack any team spirit is vital. He says ‘we are still now very much a familystyle business and my management team are very loyal and close to me. My vision is to build a legacy.’

After two decades at the helm, Craig retains the passion he had when he launched the business in 2002.

He says, ‘whilst I am at the helm ,we certainly have a passion for growth. My vision is to build a business globally that employs over 1,000 people.’

Craig says, ‘there is a massive skills shortage in freight forwarding globally. We are fighting this head on by the use of our job board, forwardingjobs.com. We are adding additional executive search consultants and seeing a massive increase in our candidate marketing spend. We genuinely believe that with our combined resource as a group we have access to more candidates than all of our competitors combined.’

Needless to say, everyone in the Group is very excited about the next 20 years.

Craig Headford – Managing Director, Headford Group

In 2022 we returned to Multimodal with FORWARDER magazine for what was a very successful event.

Our stand displayed a delicious array of homemade cupcakes by our team member which provided us with many entertaining photos from our visitors. We were thrilled to catch up with our clients and converse with likeminded individuals in the freight forwarding and logistics industry. We also ran a competition in the magazine where the winner would receive a free advertisement by simply handing us their business card. We are excited to say that FORWARDER magazine gained lots of traction from Multimodal last year, with our magazines flying off the shelves. We look forward to attending again this year.

Tony Serb – Sales Executive, FORWARDER magazine