MPS Group

MPS Group
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MPS Group, Inc.
Type Subsidiary
Industry Staffing
Founded 1992
Headquarters Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Key people Timothy D. Payne, CEO President
Revenue $2.2 billion (2008)
Website MPS Group

MPS Group, Inc. , based in Jacksonville, Florida, provides professional recruiting, staffing, consulting and business services to various industries in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and Asia.[1] For 2009, it ranked 839th on the Fortune 1000.[2] The MPS Group and its brands are currently a subsidiary of the Swiss firm Adecco.

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History

MPS Group was founded in 1992 as Accustaff Incorporated in Jacksonville and changed its name to MPS Group, Inc. in 2002. With revenues of US$2.2 billion in 2008, the company has clients in over 200 office locations worldwide. The company sells its services (like Cosmos) to virtually all industries and governmental agencies through the following primary brands:

Brand Discipline
Special Counsel Legal
Badenoch & Clark Accounting & Finance
Accounting Principals Accounting & Finance
Soliant Health Healthcare
Entegee Engineering
Modis Information Technology
Idea Integration Information Technology
Beeline Workforce Solutions

MPS Group operates in two divisions: Professional Services and Information Technology (IT) Services. The Professional Services division provides staffing and recruitment services in the disciplines of accounting and finance, law, engineering, property and health care. This division also offers technical and engineering workforce solutions; places temporary and full-time employees in attorney, paralegal, legal administrative, and legal secretarial positions, as well as in accounting and finance positions.

The IT Services division provides placement of IT contract consultants for IT project support and staffing, recruitment of full-time positions, project-based solutions, supplier management solutions, and onsite recruiting support for application development, systems integration and enterprise application integration.

MPS Group Championships

MPS Group sponsors the MPS Group Championships - a Women's Tennis Association women’s tennis event in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Company acquired

On October 20, 2009, the company announced that it was being acquired by Swiss company Adecco Group for US$1.3 billion in cash. Adecco is the largest human resources company in the world. Adecco indicated that it would not change the MPS brand name. Jacksonville will become Adecco's center for professional staffing in North America. The merger was completed in the first quarter of 2010.[3]

References

  1. ^ [1] Yahoo Finance, MPS Group
  2. ^ [2] Money Magazine, ranked companies
  3. ^ Basch, Mark: [3] Florida Times-Union, October 21, 2009, "Jacksonville's MPS Group agrees to buyout by Swiss firm"

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