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The Adecco Group

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The Adecco Group AG

The Adecco Group headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland
Company type	Aktiengesellschaft
Traded as	SIX: ADEN SMI MID component
Industry	Professional services
Predecessors	Ecco Adia Interim
Founded	1 January 1997; 27 years ago (1 January 1997)
Headquarters	Zürich, Switzerland
Number of locations	5,200 branches in over 60 countries and territories
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jean-Christophe Deslarzes (Chairman) Denis Machuel (CEO)
Services	Employment agencies, recruitment, human resource consulting and outsourcing
Revenue	€20.949 billion (2021)^[1]
Operating income	€780 million (2021)^[1]
Net income	€586 million (2021)^[1]
Total assets	€11.865 billion (2021)^[1]
Total equity	€3.800 billion (2021)^[1]
Number of employees	32,000 (FTE 2021)^[1] 115,000 (2021)^[1]
Website	adeccogroup.com

The Adecco Group is a Swiss–French^[2] company based in Zürich, Switzerland. It is the world's second largest human resources provider and temporary staffing firm.^[3] It is a Fortune Global 500 company^[4] and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

The Adecco Group global headquarters in Zürich is located in Bellerivestrasse since 2017.

Services offered by the group include temporary staffing, permanent job placement, career transition, and talent development in the office, industrial, technical, financial, and legal sectors, as well as business process outsourcing and consulting. As of 2021^[update] the company had placed 115,000 workers in full time employment and had 500,000 workers in temporary roles daily.^[1] It operates three global business units: Adecco, Akkodis,^[5] and LHH. Its operating brands include Badenoch & Clark, DIS AG, General Assembly, Innovation Foundation, Lee Hecht Harrison, Modis, Pontoon, Spring Professional, and Yoss.^[6]^[7]

The company was formed on 1 January 1997 by the merger of the French company Ecco, founded in Lyon in 1957, and the Swiss company Adia Interim, founded in Lausanne in 1957 as Adia.^[8]

Mergers and acquisitions[edit]

1957: Adia founded
1964: Ecco founded
1997: Ecco and Adia Interim merge to form a network of 2,500 branches and 250,000 staff with an annual revenue of €5.4 billion^[9]
1997: Acquires US temporary staffing company TAD Resources International of Cambridge, Massachusetts for $387.5 million^[10]^[11]
2000: Acquires Olsten Staffing, and becomes the largest recruitment company in the US, with a combined revenue of €11.6 billion^[12]
2009: Acquires UK recruitment company Spring Group^[13]
2010: Acquires US staffing firm MPS Group of Jacksonville, Florida^[14]
2011: Begins a joint venture in Shanghai with Chinese HR services company FESCO.^[15] and acquires US-based Drake Beam Morin, Inc.^[16]
2012: Acquires Japanese staffing service VSN Inc.^[17]
2014: Acquires US freelance worker-on-demand company OnForce of Lexington, Kentucky^[18]
2015: Acquires Canadian recruitment services company Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions, a Canadian company offering career transition, talent and leadership development^[19] Alain Dehaze becomes CEO^[20]
2016: Acquires UK recruitment services company Penna Consulting PLC^[21]
2018: Acquires US private educational organization General Assembly^[22] and recruitment marketplace Vettery^[23]
2019: Divests its holding of US healthcare staffing business Soliant Health to Olympus Partners for a cash consideration of $612 million^[24]
2020: Vettery purchases competing tech marketplace Hired for an undisclosed amount^[25] and combines the two business's products under the Hired brand^[26]
2022: Denis Machuel replaces Alain Dehaze as CEO^[27]^[28]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Annual Report 2021" (PDF). The Adecco Group. Retrieved 20 March 2022.

^ "Upcoming Adia, Ecco merger to create a personnel giant - Silicon Valley Business Journal". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Archived from the original on 12 December 2005. Retrieved 5 April 2016.

^ "Randstad and Adecco Rank First and Second on SIA'S 2019 Largest Global Staffing Firms List". staffingindustry.com. Retrieved 18 February 2020.

^ "The world's 500 largest companies. 2019 Report". Fortune.com.

^ "Akkodis.com". Akkodis.com. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

^ "Adecco Group Website - Our Solutions". The Adecco Group. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

^ "The Adecco Group – find out more about the industry leader in Human Resources solutions at a glance". Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 31 January 2019.

^ "Upcoming Adia, Ecco merger to create a personnel giant". Bizjournals.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2005. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

^ Dow Jones (18 September 1997). "INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS; Adecco to Acquire Massachusetts Company". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 February 2023.

^ Dow Jones Newswires (17 September 1997). "Switzerland's Adecco to Buy Staffing Firm for $387.5 Million". wsj.com. Retrieved 8 February 2023.

^ "World's Largest Temp Firm Adecco to Buy Olsten and Take Lead in U.S." Los Angeles Times.

^ "Adecco's acquisition of Spring creates one of the largest recruitment companies in the UK". Hrmagazine.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2016.

^ "Jacksonville's MPS Group agrees to buyout by Swiss firm | Jacksonville.com". Archived from the original on 5 January 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2015.

^ "Adecco, FESCO establish new HR venture". China Daily. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

^ "Adecco Announces Plan to Acquire Drake Beam Morin – Workforce Magazine". Workforce.com. 26 July 2011. Archived from the original on 30 May 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

^ "Deals - Corporate LiveWire - Corporate LiveWire". Corporatelivewire.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

^ "OnForce acquired by European Adecco Group, will join with Beeline". Betaboston.com. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.

^ "Adecco acquires Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions". 2.staffingindustry.com. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

^ "Adecco Board appoints Alain Dehaze as CEO - Recruitment International". Recruitment-international.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

^ "Adecco says Brexit uncertainty hitting UK finance jobs". Reuters. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

^ "General Assembly joins the Adecco Group". General Assembly school press. 16 April 2018. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2019.

^ "Vettery acquisition press release". The Adecco Group Press Office. Archived from the original on 15 March 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2019.

^ Sexton, Lauren (5 November 2019). "The Adecco Group announces divestment of Soliant Health in US". www.recruitment-international.co.uk. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

^ Ha, Anthony (24 November 2020). "Vettery acquires Hired to create a 'unified' job search platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

^ "Hired solidifies position as world's largest AI-driven hiring marketplace amid record hiring activity". highlights. 13 April 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

^ "Adecco recruits former Sodexo boss Machuel as new CEO".

^ "UPDATE 3-Adecco recruits former Sodexo boss Machuel as new CEO". Reuters. 5 May 2022.