Manpower Inc. To Acquire COMSYS To Accelerate Its Global Strategy, Scale And Service In Professional Staffing And Solutions

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Manpower Inc. (NYSE: MAN), a world leader in the employment services industry, announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire COMSYS IT Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq: CITP), a leading professional staffing firm. The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies. Subject to the terms of the agreement, the value of the consideration for each outstanding share of COMSYS common stock would be $17.65, for a total enterprise value of $431 million, including net debt assumed by Manpower. COMSYS' professional IT staffing services will be integrated into the Manpower Professional offering, and when combined with Elan, Manpower's European IT staffing business, creates an entity with total revenues of more than $2.5 billion. The combined entities increase Manpower's professional consultants on assignment to over 25,000. With 4,000 offices around the globe, the addition of COMSYS increases Manpower's professional staffing services geographic footprint to more than 400 offices worldwide.

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"The acquisition of COMSYS is consistent with our strategy and strengthens the continued expansion of our professional staffing services and outcome-based solutions," said Jeff Joerres, Manpower Inc. Chairman and CEO. "Both are areas where we have significantly grown organically over the past few years, driven by our strategy to provide clients with all the talent they need, particularly in the high demand skill verticals of IT, engineering, finance and accounting."

COMSYS is a leading provider of professional IT staffing services, Managed Service Program (MSP) and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) offerings. Manpower will also integrate COMSYS' MSP and RPO offerings into its world-leading Manpower Business Solutions to strengthen the company's global, industry-leading offering to deliver clients with full employment life cycle and outcome-based solutions.