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ManpowerGroup Inc. provides workforce solutions and services. The company’s workforce solutions and services for the entire business cycle include recruitment and assessment, training and development, career management, outsourcing, and workforce consulting. The company offers contingent and permanent recruitment, professional resourcing and project-based, and talent and career management workforce solutions. It provides the personal flexibility and agility businesses need with a continuum of staffing solutions. With operations in approximately 50 countries, the company delivers 51 million hours of professional talent specializing in information technology, finance, and engineering to accelerate clients’ businesses each year. The company provides clients with human resources outsourcing services primarily in the areas of large-scale recruiting and outcome-based workforce-intensive initiatives, thereby sharing in the risk and reward with its clients. ManpowerGroup Solutions include talent based outsourcing (TBO), TAPFIN - managed service provider (MSP), recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), borderless talent solutions (BTS) and strategic workforce consulting (SWC). Operations The company’s portfolio of recruitment services includes permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment of professionals, as well as administrative and industrial positions. All of these services are provided under its Manpower and Experis brands. It has provided services under its core Manpower brand with a primary focus on the areas of office, call center, and industrial services and solutions. Americas In the Americas, the company provides services as Manpower, Experis, and ManpowerGroup Solutions through both branch and franchise offices. The total Americas segment had 794 branch and 175 franchise offices. In the United States, the company had 558 branch and 166 franchise offices as of December 31, 2012, as well as on-site locations at clients with permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment requirements. In Mexico and Central America, it had 98 branch offices and in the South American Region, it had 138 branch and 9 franchise offices. The company provides various central support services to its branches and franchises. In the United States, the company provides client invoicing and payroll processing of its contingent workers for various branch offices and some of its franchise offices through administrative centers managed by its Milwaukee headquarters. In the Americas, the company’s Manpower and Experis operations provide various workforce solutions and services, including permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment, assessment and selection, and training. Its ManpowerGroup Solutions operations provide various talent based solutions, including RPO, MSP, and TBO. It also conducts business in the Americas under its Right Management brand. Southern Europe The company provides permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment, assessment and selection, training, and outsourcing services throughout Europe. Its major operations in Southern Europe are in France and Italy. The company conducts its operations in France and the surrounding region as a major workforce solutions and service provider through 806 branch offices under the name of Manpower, Experis, or ManpowerGroup Solutions, and 105 branch offices under the name Supplay. The employment services market in France calls for a range of its services, including permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment, assessment and selection, and training. The temporary recruitment market is primarily focused on recruitment for industrial positions. In Italy, the company provides workforce solutions and services. As of December 31, 2012, ManpowerGroup Italy conducted operations through a network of 254 branch offices. It provides a line of workforce solutions and services offered through Manpower, Experis, or ManpowerGroup Solutions, including permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment, assessment and selection, training, and outsourcing. The company also conducts business in Southern Europe under its Right Management brand. Northern Europe The company’s major