Reviving Manpower Inc. - The Joerres Way
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Case Details:
Case Code : BSTR208
Case Length : 13 Pages
Pages Period : 1998-2006
Organization : Manpower
Pub Date : 2006
Teaching Note :Not Available
Countries : US
Industry : Staffing Services
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Joerres was entrusted with the job of getting Manpower back on the growth path and helping it regain its number one position in staffing services. Commenting on the task ahead for Joerres, Adam Waldo, analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston4 said, "He must remake a company more intent on revenue and market share than on profits, return on capital, and margins."5 Manpower's stock price touched its all-time low at US$ 22 in August 1999 from an all-time high of US$ 50 in August 1997. This made industry experts speculate that there would be a takeover bid. At that time, Anthony E. Spare, the Chairman of Spare, Kaplan, Bischel & Associates6 that owned 45,000 shares of Manpower said, "Either the current management fixes it, they look outside for new managers, or the company gets acquired."7
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Joerres admitted the serious problems at the company, saying, "We have not done justice for our shareholders, and I'm working my tail off to fix it."8
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About Manpower Inc.
Manpower was founded in 1948 by Elmer Winter and Aaron Scheinfeld,
attorneys and business partners. They were under constant pressure to
meet deadlines for their legal work and wanted to hire additional
contractual staff. However, at that time, there were no companies that
offered staffing services. This gave them the idea of establishing a
staffing services company themselves, and they established Manpower in
1948. The first Manpower office was set up in Milwaukee in Wisconsin
state in the US, and was later the company's global headquarters. In the
1950s, Manpower established several branches in the US...
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