Corporate Profile for Adecco SA, dated August 4, 2000.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services.
Published Date: August 4, 2000
Company Name: Adecco SA
Address: 1275 Cheserex
Switzerland
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.adecco.com
Chief Executive
Officer: John Bowmer
Chief Financial
Officer: Felix Weber
Investor Relations
Contact: Helena Rasetti
Business number: ++ 1-650-610-1115
E-mail address: helena.rasetti@adecco.com
Public Relations
Contact: Francois Vassard
Business number: ++ 1-650-610-1237
E-mail address: francois.vassard@adecco.com
Industry: Staffing Services
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: NYSE:ADO; Bourse de Paris [RM 12819];
[ADECCO N (ADEN 700'939)]
Company description: Adecco Adecco S.A. is the largest human resources company in the world, based in Glattbrugg, Switzerland. The company was formed in 1996 as a result of the merger of the French company Ecco and the Swiss Adia Interim, and currently has over 6600 offices in over 75 countries worldwide. SA is the global leader in personnel services, connecting up to 600,000 associates with business clients each day through its network of over 25,000 employees and more than 5,000 locations in 59 countries around the world. Registered in Switzerland Switzerland (swĭt`sərlənd), Fr. Suisse, Ger. Schweiz, Ital. Svizzera, officially Swiss Confederation, federal republic (2005 est. pop. 7,489,000), 15,941 sq mi (41,287 sq km), central Europe. and managed by a multinational team with expertise in markets spanning the globe, Adecco delivers an unparalleled range of flexible staffing and career resources to corporate clients and qualified associates. Adecco provides clients with staffing services and solutions covering all major industries as well as specific professions. The worldwide Adecco network focuses on global industries in transition, including automotive, banking, electronics, logistics, and telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. . Adecco is also positioned as a worldwide leader in each of the major professional staffing segments with several world-class business lines: aoc (Accountants on Call) and Jonathan Wren wren, small, plump perching songbird of the family Troglodytidae. There are about 60 wren species, and all except one are restricted to the New World. The plumage is usually brown or reddish above and white, gray, or buff, often streaked, below. for Finance, Banking and Accounting; Ajilon and Computer People for high-end Information Technology, TAD and Roevin for Engineering and Technical. These Adecco businesses provide their clients with a broad range of staffing solutions, from temporary work to permanent placement, to consulting and managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality . Adecco also offers a range of HR solutions with Econova/Lee Hecht Harrison, offering outplacement out·place·ment n. The process of facilitating a terminated employee's search for a new job by provision of professional services, such as counseling, paid for by the former employer. and career management services. Adecco clients retain this unique range of services through local, national and m! ultinational contracts. Adecco's 1999 revenues increased 21% to 18.5 billion Swiss Francs Noun 1. Swiss franc - the basic unit of money in Switzerland franc - the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes centime - a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and (approximately US $11.6 billion, Euro 11.5 billion). The company has the largest market share in eight of the top 13 markets worldwide (Australia, Canada, France, Nordics, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ). |
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