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Temp giant Adecco sees fall in revenues

The world's biggest temporary employment agency, Adecco, announced on Wednesday a 4.5-percent fall in sales in the first two months of the third quarter.

Published: 19 September 2012 09:57 CEST
Temp giant Adecco sees fall in revenues

The results, announced as the human resources specialist hosts its annual Investor Days event in Paris, follows a 4.0-percent decline in second quarter revenues.

"Revenue development in July was slightly weaker, mainly driven by France and Japan," Adecco said in a statement, with continuing "diverse geographical trends" characterized by largely unchanged revenues in Europe in July and August and a slight acceleration in North American revenues since June.

In the second quarter, the Swiss multinational posted a 20-percent fall in net profits to $148 million (137 million francs) with sales up 1.0 percent to ($6.8 billion).

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ADECCO

Top execs quit Adecco amid improved results

Swiss-based Adecco, the world's biggest temporary staffing group, said on Thursday that both its chief executive and finance chief have quit, as it posted strong first-quarter earnings on the back of improving sales in Europe.

Published: 7 May 2015 14:08 CEST
Top execs quit Adecco amid improved results
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In a surprise announcement, Adecco said its CEO Patrick De Maeseneire would be leaving at the end of August and would be replaced by Alain Dehaze, a Belgian national who currently leads the company's operations in its key
market France.
   
The Zurich-based company also announced that its chief financial officer Dominik de Daniel had decided to leave at the end of July, and that his successor was yet to be determined.
 
Adecco's board thanked both men for their "outstanding contribution" to the company, but gave no explanations for their departures.
   
"The fact that the board decided for an internal successor stands for continuity," chairman of the board Rolf Doerig said in a statement of the decision to hand the reins to Dehaze, who joined Adecco in 2009.
   
Thursday's shake-up announcement cast a shadow over Adecco's stellar earnings, which showed a 45-percent jump in net profit in the first quarter to €160 million ($182 million).

   
That was better than the expectations of analysts polled by the AWP financial news agency, who had anticipated a net profit of €145 million for the quarter.

Adecco's revenues meanwhile grew nine percent to 5.0 billion euros as the economic outlook improved in Europe.
   
"In the first quarter revenue growth accelerated, helped by an improving environment in Europe," De Maeseneire said in the earnings statement.
   
"Conditions in France stabilized and we saw a pick-up in Benelux, while Italy, Iberia and Eastern Europe again achieved double-digit growth," he said.
   
France meanwhile lost its place as Adecco's largest market, with North America taking the lead for the quarter with 21 percent of total sales.
   
In France, which accounted for a fifth of Adecco's total sales, revenues slipped two percent during the quarter to €1.0 billion, hit by a weak construction sector.

Looking forward, the group said that based on the current economic outlook, it expects "revenue growth to accelerate in the second half of 2015".

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