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Mitchell Fromstein has become chairman of the British recruitment firm Blue Arrow PLC, marking the American executive’s consolidation of power at the company that bought out his firm in 1987. Fromstein had already replaced Blue Arrow’s Tony Berry as chief executive in a board room coup in January after disagreements over the management of Manpower Inc., the company Fromstein headed before its takeover by Blue Arrow. Berry also was chairman of Blue Arrow. Blue Arrow bought Manpower for $1.3 billion in 1987 and ousted Fromstein. Berry remains as a non-executive director of Blue Arrow.