ManpowerGroup Inc.

What does ManpowerGroup own?

ManpowerGroup owns three workforce brands: Manpower for contingent staffing and permanent recruitment, Experis for IT professional resourcing, and Talent Solutions covering RPO, the TAPFIN managed service provider offering, and Right Management outplacement. It also operates a franchise network extending the brands into smaller markets.

Is ManpowerGroup publicly traded?

Yes. ManpowerGroup trades on the NYSE under ticker MAN and is an S&P 500 component. The company has been public since 1962.

Who founded ManpowerGroup?

Lawyers Elmer Winter and Aaron Scheinfeld founded Manpower Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1948, pioneering the temporary staffing industry in postwar America. The company became ManpowerGroup in 2011.

Where is ManpowerGroup headquartered?

ManpowerGroup is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, where it was founded. It operates in more than 75 countries, with Southern Europe its largest revenue region.

How many brands does ManpowerGroup own?

Three principal brands: Manpower, Experis, and Talent Solutions, with Talent Solutions containing RPO, TAPFIN-MSP, and Right Management as internal lines of business.

Who owns ManpowerGroup?

ManpowerGroup is publicly owned, with shares distributed among institutional investors and index funds led by Vanguard and BlackRock. No founding family or controlling shareholder remains.

What were ManpowerGroup's 2025 results?

For 2025 ManpowerGroup reported revenue of $18.0 billion, down 2.1 percent in constant currency, a reported net loss of $13.3 million driven by impairments, restructuring, and one-time items, and adjusted EPS of $2.97. The Manpower brand returned to growth while Experis began to stabilize.

Lawyers Elmer Winter and Aaron Scheinfeld founded the company in Milwaukee in 1948 as Manpower Inc., staffing clerical and industrial temps for local businesses and helping pioneer the modern temporary help industry in the postwar American economy. Expansion through franchises and company offices carried the brand across the United States and then internationally, making Manpower one of the first American service companies to globalize.

The company went public in 1962 and spent the following decades building the largest temp staffing network in the world, while adding specialty services including career management through its Right Management outplacement acquisition in the early 2000s and IT staffing capabilities that became Experis.

The 2000s and 2010s professionalized the portfolio: Experis consolidated IT resourcing under a dedicated brand, and ManpowerGroup Solutions bundled RPO, managed service provider, and outplacement lines, later unified as Talent Solutions. The company reorganized its brand architecture in 2011, when Manpower Inc. became ManpowerGroup.

The 2020s have been structurally harder. Revenue peaked at $22.0 billion in 2018 and declined through a soft European labor market, a weak IT hiring cycle, and the post-pandemic normalization of staffing demand, reaching $18.0 billion in 2025 with impairments producing a reported net loss of $13.3 million. Management's response is portfolio simplification, converting some owned operations to franchises and concentrating on enterprise clients, alongside AI deployment across sourcing and matching.

ManpowerGroup publishes an annual ESG report covering workforce development, diversity, and responsible employment practices, and has been recognized repeatedly as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere. Its social impact work centers on employability: skilling programs for displaced and underserved workers, including refugee employment initiatives.

The company is not B Corp certified, standard for public staffing multinationals. Its most material ethics posture concerns worker rights across the contingent labor model it pioneered, an area where it publishes ethical employment standards.

ManpowerGroup's recurring exposures are the staffing industry's: worker classification and pay-equity disputes across jurisdictions, visa and labor-law compliance in its many markets, and periodic claims of discrimination in placements resolved through normal litigation channels.

The 2025 reported net loss was driven by non-cash goodwill and intangible impairments, restructuring charges, losses on businesses sold into franchising, pension settlements, and Argentina hyperinflation accounting, a pileup of one-time items rather than an operational scandal. No fraud finding or major regulatory enforcement action is on record as of November 2026.