MPS Group, Inc. (NYSE: MPS) provides professional recruiting, staffing, consulting, and business solutions to various industries in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and Asia. MPS Group was founded in 1992 as Accustaff Incorporated in Jacksonville, Florida and changed its name to MPS Group, Inc. in 2002. With revenues of $2.2B in 2007, the company serves clients from over 200 office locations worldwide.
The company delivers its services to virtually all industries and governmental agencies through the following primary brands: Special Counsel (Legal), Badenoch & Clark (Accounting & Finance), Accounting Principals (Accounting & Finance), Soliant Health (Healthcare), Entegee (Engineering), Modis (IT), Idea Integration (IT), Beeline (Workforce Solutions)
MPS Group operates in two divisions: Professional Services and Information Technology (IT) Services. The Professional Services division provides staffing and recruitment services in the disciplines of accounting and finance, law, engineering, property, and health care. This division also offers technical and engineering workforce solutions; places temporary and full-time employees in attorney, paralegal, legal administrative, and legal secretarial positions, as well as in accounting and finance positions. Traveling health care professionals are also placed as part of this division.
The IT Services division provides placement of IT contract consultants for IT project support and staffing, recruitment of full-time positions, project-based solutions, supplier management solutions, and onsite recruiting support for application development, systems integration, and enterprise application integration. This division also specializes in Web design and development, application development, digital data management, business intelligence, infrastructure and security, and interactive marketing. In addition, the IT Services division provides web-based solutions for managing a flexible workforce.