MPS Group, Inc. , based in Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

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, provides professional recruiting, staffing, consulting and business services to various industries in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and Asia. For 2009, it ranked 839th on the Fortune 1000

Fortune 1000

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. The MPS Group and its brands are currently a subsidiary of the Swiss firm Adecco

Adecco

Adecco S.A. is a human resources company, based in Glattbrugg near Zurich, Switzerland. Adecco employs 700,000 temporary workers and contractors who are supplied to business clients, and has over 32,000 employees and 5,500 offices in 60 countries and territories around the world...

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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 Badenoch & Clark Badenoch & Clark is a recruitment consultancy with offices in several major cities in England and Scotland. It employs around 350 consultants who provide employment, recruitment and retention consultancy to organisations across England, Scotland and Wales...	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

Professional services

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 and Information Technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 (IT) Services. The Professional Services

Professional services

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 division provides staffing and recruitment

Recruitment

Recruitment refers to the process of attracting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a job. For some components of the recruitment process, mid- and large-size organizations often retain professional recruiters or outsource some of the process to recruitment agencies.The recruitment...

 services in the disciplines of accounting and finance

Finance

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, law

Law

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, engineering

Engineering

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, property and health care

Health care

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. This division also offers technical

Technology

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 and engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 workforce solutions; places temporary and full-time employees in attorney

Lawyer

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, paralegal

Paralegal

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, legal administrative, and legal secretarial positions, as well as in accounting and finance

Finance

"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

 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 Association

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 women’s tennis

Tennis

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 event in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

Florida

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Company acquired

On October 20, 2009, the company announced that it was being acquired by Swiss company Adecco Group

Adecco

Adecco S.A. is a human resources company, based in Glattbrugg near Zurich, Switzerland. Adecco employs 700,000 temporary workers and contractors who are supplied to business clients, and has over 32,000 employees and 5,500 offices in 60 countries and territories around the world...

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.