MPS Group, Inc. - IT Staffing -  Category Directory

904-360-2000

1 Independent Drive

Jacksonville, FL 32202

www.mpsgroup.com

Sales

$1.1 billion

Business Description

MPS Group, Inc. ('MPS' or the 'Company') is a leading global provider of
business services with over 170 offices throughout the United States, Canada,
the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. MPS delivers consulting, solutions,
and staffing services to virtually all industries in the following disciplines
and through the following brands:

Discipline                                                Brand(s)

Information Technology (IT) Services          Modis
Accounting and Finance                           Badenoch & Clark, Accounting Principals
Engineering                                             Entegee
Legal                                                      Special Counsel
IT Solutions                                             Idea Integration
Health Care                                             Soliant Health
Executive Search                                     Diversified Search
Human Capital                                         Automation Beeline
 

MPS operates these brands under three divisions: the professional services
division; the IT services division; and the IT solutions division. The Company
generated revenue of $1.10 billion in 2003, of which 64% was contributed from
the United States.

Professional Services division

The professional services division represented approximately 47% of MPS's
revenue and 51% of its gross profit for 2003. This was up from 41% of its
revenue and 47% of its gross profit for 2002. Approximately 61% of the
division's revenue was generated in the United States with the remainder
contributed from the United Kingdom.

The professional services division provides professional business staffing and
solutions to a wide variety of clients, through its network of approximately 100
offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. The division provides
expertise in a wide variety of disciplines operating through the Badenoch &
Clark, Accounting Principals, Special Counsel, Entegee, Soliant Health, and
Diversified Search brands.

Badenoch & Clark is a professional services recruitment consultancy with
offices located across the United Kingdom, primarily specializing in
finance & accounting. Badenoch & Clark has served clients for over 20 years
with a professional, consultative approach to permanent, temporary and
interim hiring solutions.

Entegee provides a strategic work force solution for technical and
engineering needs through its domestic network of national practice
branches. From on-site management consulting and in-house project services
to temporary and direct placement, Entegee combines industry knowledge and
experience to fill highly skilled technical and engineering positions.
Entegee also provides engineering and drafting design services through
company-owned centers that utilize state-of-the-art computer technology.

Special Counsel provides customized legal workforce solutions to Fortune
1000 companies and law firms through its network of offices located across
the United States. Special Counsel provides temporary, temporary-to-direct
hire, and direct hire solutions for workload management, litigation
support, business transaction support, pre-litigation and document
management support, as well as trial-related services.

Accounting Principals provides professional services recruitment and
placement of accounting and finance professionals with offices located
across the United States. Accounting Principals offers a complete range of
workforce solutions in accounting, finance, mortgage, and banking through
its nationwide branch network and team of experienced professionals.

Soliant Health provides specialized healthcare staffing services in
nursing, imaging, therapy, and other healthcare positions to hospitals and
healthcare providers. By supplying traveling nurses and allied healthcare
professionals on both temporary and direct hire assignments, Soliant Health
delivers comprehensive healthcare staffing services to leading facilities
across the United States.

Diversified Search provides senior-level executive and board of director
search services to clients ranging from small, private firms and
not-for-profits to large publicly held corporations in the United States.

The Company's business staffing solutions are provided for varying periods of
time to companies or other organizations (including government agencies) that
have a need for such personnel, but are unable to, or choose not to, engage
certain personnel as their own employees. Examples of client needs for staffing
solutions include the need for specialized or highly-skilled personnel for the
completion of a specific project or subproject, substitution for regular
employees during vacation or sick leave, and staffing of high turnover positions
or seasonal peaks.

The division has a variable cost business model whereby revenue and cost of
revenue are primarily recognized and incurred on a time-and-materials basis. The
majority of the billable consultants are compensated on an hourly basis only for
the hours which are billed its client. Approximately 5% of the division's
revenue in 2003 was generated from permanent placement fees. Permanent placement
fees are generated when a client directly hires a skilled consultant.
 

IT Services division

The IT services division includes the Modis and Beeline units. The division
represented approximately 47% of MPS's revenue and 40% of its gross profit for
2003. Approximately 63% of the division's revenue was generated in the United
States, with the remainder generated internationally, primarily in the United
Kingdom.

Modis is one of the world's largest providers of Information Technology Resource
Management (ITRM) services and solutions. ITRM is defined as deploying skilled
consultants to meet an organization's information technology goals using the
optimal mix of internal staff, outside consulting resources, and project
outsourcing. Today, Modis delivers world-class ITRM solutions to more than 1,000
clients in a wide variety of industries through its network of approximately 65
offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and continental Europe.

The value-added solutions falling under the umbrella of ITRM include IT project
support and staffing, recruitment of full-time positions, project-based
solutions, supplier management solutions, and on-site recruiting support in the
areas of application development, systems integration, and enterprise
application integration.

Modis has a variable cost business model whereby revenue and cost of revenue are
primarily generated on a time-and-materials basis. The majority of the billable
consultants are compensated on an hourly basis only for the hours which are
billed its client. Less than 1% of the Modis' revenue in 2003 was generated from
permanent placement fees.

Beeline provides a software-based human capital management services solution to
principally Fortune 1000 clients. Beeline offers a wide range of human capital
solutions that automate the acquisition and management of both full-time and
contingent workers. Beeline offerings include Beeline for Contingent Labor,
Beeline for Managed Services, Beeline for Performance Appraisals, Beeline for
Direct Hire, and Beeline for RFPs. Companies and government agencies enhance
execution with these solutions by improving efficiency, visibility, discipline,
and communication. Beeline has operations in both the United States and the
United Kingdom.

Beeline maintains a full-time staff to support its operations and seeks to
collect a service charge based upon the usage of this service. To implement its
service, Beeline incurs considerable start up costs and time. Subsequent to
implementation, minimal cost and resources are required for the usage of
Beeline's services.

IT Solutions division

The IT solutions division is comprised solely of Idea Integration ('Idea'). The
division represented approximately 6% of MPS's revenue and 9% of its gross
profit for 2003. All of the division's revenue was generated in the United
States.

Idea is an e-business consulting and systems integration solutions provider
serving Fortune 1000 companies, government, and middle-market clients, through a
combination of local, regional, and national practice groups located in nine
domestic markets. Specializing in Web design and development, information
management solutions, wireless workflow applications, portal solutions, and
enterprise resource management, Idea strives to deliver high-return business
applications for its clients.

Idea has a fixed cost business model utilizing salaried consultants to deliver
solutions primarily under time-and-materials contracts and to a lesser extent
under fixed-fee contracts.

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