Kelly Services

Kelly Services, Inc. ( NASDAQ: KELYA, KELYB ), headquartered in Troy, Michigan, USA is active in 38 countries, personnel services company. It provides annually about 650,000 employees with skills including office services, financial, banking, engineering, IT, law, science, marketing, light industrial, education, and health care. The turnover in 2010 amounted to around 5 billion U.S. dollars.

History

William Russell Kelly offered 1946 local businesses to commercial services such as typing or bookkeeping. First, the two employees completed all incoming orders in the office of Kelly. Then wished more and more customers that your work force of employees was provided in their own company premises. After a year a division was created from the " rental " of personnel.

The late 1960s, William Russell Kelly laid the foundation for the international expansion of Kelly Services and opened in 1968 the first international office in Toronto, Canada. The first European office in Paris in 1972 was followed, in 1973, another in London. After the merger with the WORKSHOP Group Kelly Services since 1998 with the Kelly Services GmbH & Co. OHG represented in Germany. The company is a member of the BZA and has offices in Hamburg (headquarters), Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Cologne, Munich, Rheine, Rostock and Stuttgart.

The headquarters for Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as the headquarters for Switzerland is located in Neuchatel.