#MANPOWER INC REGISTRATION#
Over the next two years, Fromstein reinstated the Manpower name, returned the company’s registration to the United States, and sold off Blue Arrow’s non-Manpower businesses. The Blue Arrow board responded by removing their chairman and appointing Fromstein as Blue Arrow CEO. When Fromstein was removed as Manpower’s president in 1988, discontent fomented among Manpower’s franchisees. One year later, British firm Blue Arrow PLC acquired Manpower in a hostile takeover. In 1986, the pen business was sold and the company was renamed Manpower. Under Fromstein’s leadership, Manpower became Parker Pen’s chief source of profit and sales by the mid-1980s. Mitchell Fromstein, a member of Manpower’s executive committee, purchased the remaining twenty percent and was named president of the company. In 1976, the Parker Pen Company, headquartered in Janesville, Wisconsin, bought an eighty percent share of Manpower. Manpower’s rapid expansion and large market share made it attractive for acquisition. The company supplied white gloves to its temps so that they fit the image portrayed by the advertisements. Manpower’s “White Glove Girl” advertising campaign, instituted in 1961, helped to further this image of temporary workers. Temporary staffing agencies advertised their services to housewives looking to make extra money while setting their own schedules. Īlthough Manpower employed both skilled and unskilled laborers from its early days, the image of temporary employment in the 1950s and 1960s became increasingly associated with female office workers. By 1956, Manpower had spread throughout the country and opened its first international offices. In 1948, the partners opened the first Manpower offices in Milwaukee and Chicago. Brothers-in-law and partners in the same law firm, Scheinfeld and Winter recognized the need for temporary workers in their firm and their clients’ industries following World War II. Manpower was the brainchild of Milwaukee lawyers Aaron Scheinfeld and Elmer Winter. Despite Manpower’s international success, the company has remained embedded in the Milwaukee economy. Founded in 1948 as a provider of temporary employees, ManpowerGroup now includes four divisions focusing on a variety of temporary and permanent staffing solutions, employee development, and outsourced recruiting services. A publically-traded Fortune 500 company, ManpowerGroup had $19 billion in 2015 revenue. The company employs about 27,000 permanent employees, of which in mid-2016 about 900 were located at the Milwaukee headquarters. In 2015, the company placed 3.4 million people in temporary or permanent jobs, averaging over 600,000 employees per day. ManpowerGroup has over 2,900 offices in eighty countries.
is one of the world’s largest staffing and workforce development agencies. Headquartered in downtown Milwaukee, ManpowerGroup, Inc.
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