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Business profile: Adecco

Name of the company: Adecco

Established: June, 2002

Location: 113 West Northern Lights, Suite 200, Anchorage, Alaska, 99503 (In the Great Alaska Mall).

Telephone: 907-563-0090

Web site: www.USAdecco.com

Focus of service: Adecco is a private employment agency that is the

third largest employer in the United States. It is in all 50 states, coming to Alaska last. It has 6,000 branches worldwide.

Adecco trades on the New York stock exchange (ADO) and is headquartered in Cheserex, Switzerland. It is the world's largest staffing and employment services agency, including the $4.5 billion U.S. division, and has 30,000 employees worldwide.

In 2002 Adecco placed four million temporary workers.

Laurie Lyons, Anchorage branch manager, has a two-fold job - finding employees and employers.

"Both are constant daily challenges - finding the balance of the two," Lyons said.

Currently Adecco is filling quite a few Anchorage jobs in labor and basic clerical, but the new branch is aiming to fill high tech jobs, too.

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