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Manpower

Manpower

A Solid Commitment to Helping Clients

For more than six decades, Manpower has been focused on helping organisations raise productivity through improved quality, efficiency and cost-reduction across their total workforce. When Right Management became part of Manpower, its opportunity and mandate was to deliver key specialty workforce solutions that complemented our offerings and those of our other companies. Together, Manpower and Right Management share an unshakeable commitment to helping clients win in the world of work.

Manpower Inc. (NYSE: MAN) is a world leader in the employment services industry, creating and delivering services that enable its clients to win in the changing world of work. With more than 60 years of experience, the company offers employers a range of services for the entire employment and business cycle, including permanent, temporary and contract recruitment; employee assessment and selection; training; outplacement; outsourcing and consulting.

Manpower's worldwide network of 4,100 offices in 82 countries and territories enables the company to meet the needs of its 400,000 clients per year, including small- and medium-sized enterprises in all industry sectors as well as the world's largest multinational corporations. The focus of Manpower's work is on raising productivity through improved quality, efficiency and cost-reduction across their total workforce, enabling clients to concentrate on their core business activities. Manpower Inc. operates under five brands: Manpower, Manpower Professional, Elan, Jefferson Wells and Right Management.

The Facts

  • More than 9 million people have received training and development services through the Manpower group of companies.
  • Manpower ranked 120th on the 2008 Fortune 500 list of the largest companies in America.
  • Forbes magazine named Manpower in its 2008 list of the best-managed companies for the 6th time, citing Manpower’s integrity in the areas of accounting and governance, financial condition and earnings quality.
  • Fortune magazine ranked Manpower 1st for social responsibility among staffing industry firms in 2008.
  • In 2008, Manpower was added to the FTSE4Good Index Series. This index, created by the Financial Times Stock Exchange, includes only companies that meet globally recognised and accepted criteria used to measure socially responsible business practices.