Adecco Group - statistics & facts

The Adecco Group is a multinational provider of temporary staffing and recruitment services headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2020, it had the second-highest revenue in the staffing industry worldwide, although their position slips back to fifth in the U.S. staffing firm market. Over half of the revenue generated by the Adecco Group worldwide was in Western Europe and the vast majority of this comes from temporary staffing services when organized into service lines provided by the company.

Mergers and expansion

Adecco was founded in 1996 with the merger of Swiss company Adia Interim and French company Ecco, creating a company with around 2,500 branches and an annual revenue of 5.4 billion euros. The year 2000 saw significant expansion for Adecco through their acquisition of Olsten Recruiting, boosting their total revenue of 11.6 billion euros and turning them into the largest recruitment company in the United States at the time. Since then, a combination of acquisitions and organic growth has enabled Adecco to expand their operations across the globe, resulting in a company that generated nearly 21 billion euros in revenue in 2021.

Specific markets for specific brands

Presently, the Adecco Group operates under a number of different brands worldwide, with the most prominent of these being Adecco Staffing, Euro Engineering, Modis, Spring Professional, Badenoch & Clark, Pontoon, General Assembly, Vettery, YOSS , Adia and Lee Hecht Harrison. Each of these brands has a different focus; for example Adia focuses on the hospitality, catering and events industry, while Modis focuses on IT, engineering and life sciences. When the company is broken down in such a way, the majority of revenue comes from the Adecco brand.
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Published by Statista Research Department, Aug 31, 2023

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