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2005: The Adecco Group expanded across six professional business lines.2002: The Adecco Group consolidated its businesses and created divisions to manage its business.The merged company generated combined revenues of €11.6 billion. 2000: The Adecco Group acquired Olsten Staffing.Operations were combined to form a network of 2,500 branches and 250,000 staff. 1996: Personnel services firms Ecco and Adia Interim merged to form a global company with annualised revenues of €5.4 billion.1964: Ecco is founded in Lyon, France by Philippe Foriel-Destezet.1957: Adia is founded by Henri Lavanchy in Lausanne, Switzerland.The Adecco Group provides services covering temporary staffing, permanent placement, career transition and talent development as well as business process outsourcing and consulting.Īs for staffing, The Adecco Group covers many sectors, including office, industrial, technical, financial and legal, amongst others. The Adecco Group is the parent company of various brands including Adecco, Modis, Spring Professional, Badenoch & Clark, Pontoon, General Assembly, Vettery, Adia and Lee Hecht Harrison. In 2010, it acquired MPS Group and thus became the number one company worldwide. In 2000 The Adecco Group acquired Olsten Staffing, in the US, becoming the number one recruitment company in that country. Ecco was founded in Lyon (France) at the initiative of Philippe Foriel Destezet. Adia was established in 1957 in Lausanne (Switzerland) by Henri Lavanchy.
The company was formed officially on 1 January 1997 as a result of the merger of the French company Ecco and the Swiss company Adia Interim, and is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ADEN, ISIN CH0012138605). They directly employ 700,000 people a day, and with the expansion of its operations to China, the number of people working under them totals up to 3.5 million. The Adecco Group global headquarters in Zurich is located in Bellerivestrasse since 2017