Gi Group has announced a major step in the company’s development with the launch of Gi Group Holding (www.gigroupholding.com). This new corporate brand and business structure will further unify the company’s strategic approach to providing organisations with a full and comprehensive suite of staffing and recruitment solutions. Headquartered in Milan, and comprising over 6,500 employees, the group is active in 30 countries worldwide. Through its key brands, the new Holding company provides services to more than 20,000 companies generating revenues of €3.3 billion (2021 figures), making it the 5th largest staffing firm in Europe, and the 16th largest worldwide. Collectively, over the past five years, the group has experienced an increase in revenues of 65% (+€1.3 billion). Against the backdrop of today’s complex labour market, these positive results – coupled with this important step in the company’s history – highlight the Group’s leading position in the marketplace.
Key to the Group’s success is its unique purpose – the creation of social and economic value for both employers and candidates. Called “More than Work”, the Group aims to go beyond simply providing work. The overaching aims of the Group are these: firstly, to ensure that employees will experience enjoyable and life-changing work environments. And secondly, to enable a sustainable, streamlined, and harmonious global labour market for employers and employees alike—one that reflects the ever-changing needs of candidates and companies.
Gi Group Holding’s global integrated HR Services ecosystem is made up of a series of complementary brands. Collectively, these provide a 360° suite of offerings that are designed to meet any client challenge, globally, regionally, or nationally. Globally, these brands are:
· Gi Group: temporary staffing and development
· Gi BPO: business process outsourcing
· INTOO: career transition and employability
· Wyser: Middle & Senior Manager search and selection
· Grafton: professional staffing
· TACK/TMI: learning and development
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These key brands are further complemented by several local-country companies that respond to regional business needs. Specifically, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the company offers services through Gi Group, Grafton, Marks Sattin, Tack/TMI and INTOO, ultimately placing and developing 30,000 candidates per year within the marketplace and reporting revenues of £325 million.
Over the next five years, the Group’s business strategy will focus on further consolidating stronghold markets (Italy, Brazil, UK, Germany, France, Poland, China, & Spain) and on accelerating in high growth opportunity countries through organic growth and possible acquisitions. Additionally, the Group will work to reinforce and enhance its core temporary staffing business. A further strategic focus will be its professional staffing services, which has considerable potential, particularly through growing relationships with Top Corporate Clients.
Driving Gi Group Holding’s business strategy is CEO Stefano Colli-Lanzi, who stated “Today marks an important and proud day in the history of our company. Since our founding in 1998, thanks to the invaluable contribution of our passionate employees worldwide, our organisation has grown to become a leading force in the human resources industry.” He added, “Never before has the care for the individual been so crucial for organisational success. And with the creation of Gi Group Holding, our mission is increasingly clear: to contribute to the evolution of the sustainable labour market and to emphasise the personal and social value of work.”
At the centre of the company’s people-first strategy is the promotion of Sustainable Work: a purposeful thread that is woven throughout the entire Holding’s activities. Through Sustainable Work, Gi Group Holding aims to elevate industry standards through activities that promote a shared, multi-stakeholder responsibility in helping achieve living and working conditions that support people throughout an extended working life. In fact, Sustainable Work refers to:
· People: Helping individuals grasp the meaning and value of work, taking care of psycho-physical wellbeing, investing in the development of hard and soft skills, and building professional and leadership relationships.
· Companies: Helping organisations improve their own resilience, prioritise innovation and value creation, and invest in human capital. In addition to this, the Group aims to help its clients in their efforts to promote diversity and inclusion, and in addressing environmental issues.
· Institutions: Developing and supporting active labour policies, fighting undeclared work and tax evasion, promoting sustainable flexibility, reducing skills mismatch, and promoting training to enhance people’s employability.
The launch of Gi Group Holding is enhanced with a digital ecosystem that includes a new global website (www.gigroupholding.com) and dedicated LinkedIn page where news, insights and other engaging content will be made available for our global community.
