please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . october 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message vedior n.v. type private industry recruitment founded 1998 headquarters amsterdam the netherlands key people jacques van den broek chairman of the management board revenue 7.660 billion 2006 owner randstad holding number of employees 14 366 website www.vedior.com vedior n.v. was an international staffing services company providing flexible labour based in amsterdam the netherlands and thus contributes more than 60 % of its revenue to the social benefits of its employees there . vedior operates in most of europe north and south america australia and new zealand south africa middle east and asia . it has been a wholly owned part of randstad holding since the end of june 2008 . the company operated in 50 different countries and is now the world s largest provider of professional and executive personnel in it accounting healthcare engineering legal and education . citation needed it also provided hr related services such as vendor management outplacement training and business process outsourcing . vedior operated under a number of separate brands . history edit vedior was originally created as a spin off from the dutch retail and services company vendex following the acquisition of the french company bis . in 1999 vedior s application to purchase select a uk based staffing company with operations in the usa and australia was approved by the european commission . post merger vedior became the fourth largest staffing company in the world . citation needed former select ceo tony martin subsequently became the new ceo . zach miles replaced martin as ceo in 2004 and oversaw more than 20 company acquisitions . tex gunning joined the company as miles replacement in september 2007 having previously been group vice president for south east asia and australasia at unilever . gunning left the firm after its acquisition by randstad in 2008 . on 3 december 2007 vedior agreed in principle to be acquired by larger dutch listed rival randstad for around 3.5 billion . the combined company would be second only to adecco in the global recruitment business . 1 randstad launched a formal offer valuing vedior at 3.3 billion on 2 april 2008 with the takeover targeted to be completed in may . 2 at the close of the offer period on 13 may randstad declared ownership of over 93 % of vedior s shares facilitating the company s removal from the aex index . 3 vedior s shares were delisted from the amsterdam stock exchange on june 25 . 4 references edit molenaar jeroen ; van de pol jurjen 2007 12 03 . randstad agrees to buy vedior for eu3 .5 billion . bloomberg . retrieved 2007 12 03 . ten wolde harro 2 april 2008 . randstad launches 5.2 billion offer for vedior . reuters . retrieved 2008 04 02 . vedior to be removed from aex index from may 14 . afx news . forbes . 13 may 2008 . retrieved 2008 05 14 . dead link stevenson reed 9 june 2008 . vedior shares to be delisted on june 25 . reuters . retrieved 2008 07 04 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vedior & oldid 672193999 categories companies of the netherlandsstaffing companies of the netherlandsprivately held companies of the netherlandstemporary employment agencieshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2014articles needing additional references from october 2014all articles needing additional referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisnederlandssvenska edit links this page was last modified on 19 july 2015 at 23 25 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view