here . for the nasa instrument known as modis see moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer . adecco group north america type subsidiary industry staffing founded 1992 headquarters jacksonville florida usa key people bob crouch chief executive officer 1 revenue 2.2 billion 2008 website adecco group na adecco group north america based in jacksonville florida provides professional recruiting staffing consulting and business services to various industries in the united states canada the united kingdom europe australia and asia . 2 for 2009 it ranked 839th on the fortune 1000 . 3 formerly mps group inc. its brands are currently a subsidiary of the swiss firm adecco group . contents 1 history 2 adecco group north america championships 3 company acquired 4 references 5 external links history edit adecco group north america was founded in 1982 as accustaff incorporated in jacksonville and changed its name to j inc. in 2002 . with revenues of us 2.2 billion in 2008 the company has clients in over 200 office locations worldwide . the company sells its services like cosmos to virtually all industries and governmental agencies through the following primary brands brand discipline special counsel legal parker & lynch accounting finance legal accounting principals accounting & finance soliant health healthcare entegee engineering ajilon front office modis information technology beeline workforce solutions paladin creative communications marketing lee hect harrison outplacement & talent development pontoon contingent workforce outsourcing adecco group north america 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 . 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 . adecco group north america championships edit mps group sponsored the mps group championships a women s tennis association event held in ponte vedra beach florida in 2009 and 2010 . the tournament was discontinued in 2011 due to scheduling changes for wta tour spring events . company acquired edit on october 20 2009 the company announced that it was being acquired by swiss company adecco group for us 1.3 billion in cash . adecco is the largest human resources company in the world . adecco indicated that it would not change the mps brand name . jacksonville will become adecco s center for professional staffing in north america . when the merger was completed in the first quarter of 2010 . 4 references edit our world class leadership . . adecco . retrieved 2013 07 23 . permanent dead link 1 yahoo finance mps group 2 money magazine ranked companies mark basch october 21 2009 . jacksonville s mps group agrees to buyout by swiss firm . florida times union . retrieved 2015 01 13 . login reguired external links edit official website v t e jacksonville area based corporations list of companies in jacksonville florida fortune 1000 corporations 2015 rank csx corporation 240 fidelity national financial 314 fis 422 landstar system 719 publicly traded corporations ameris bancorp atlantic coast financial black knight financial services everbank frp holdings patriot transportation rayonier rayonier advanced materials regency centers stein mart web.com privately held businesses acosta sales & marketing availity axia public relations bloch publishing company crowley maritime elkins constructors fanatics firehouse subs florida blue florida east coast railway gate petroleum haskell company huckins yacht corporation i wear your shirt jacksonville free press kbj architects larry s giant subs m. d. moody & sons mac papers medmal direct insurance company metro jacksonville mobro marine pga tour reynolds smith & hills ring power safariland st. vincent s healthcare sally corporation seward trunk co. southeastern grocers stellar group swisher international group trailer bridge us assure vystar credit union us headquarters of foreign businesses adecco group north america association of tennis professionals beeline buffet group usa h egh autoliners northgate information solutions survitec group north america venus fashion otto division headquarters of us corporations florida coastal school of law infilaw system the florida times union morris communications foundation financial group interline brands the home depot parallel infrastructure florida east coast industries pss world medical mckesson corporation southeast toyota distributors jm family enterprises unison industries ge aviation vistakon johnson & johnson retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title adecco group north america & oldid 742513108 categories human resource management consulting firmshigh tech recruitment companiestemporary employment agenciescompanies based in jacksonville floridahidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2016articles with permanently dead external linksvague or ambiguous time from january 2015 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 add links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 04 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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