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| Company type | Naamloze vennootschap |
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| Euronext Amsterdam: RAND AEX component | |
| ISIN | NL0000379121 |
| Industry | Professional services |
| Founded | 1960; 65 years ago (1960) |
| Founder | Gerrit Daleboudt Frits Goldschmeding |
| Headquarters | Diemen, Netherlands |
Number of locations | 4,861 branches in 39 countries |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Sander van ‘t Noordende (Chairman andCEO) |
| Services | Employment agencies, recruitments,human resource consulting and outsourcing |
| Revenue |  €24.122 billion (2024) |
| €405 million (2024) | |
| €123 million (2024) | |
| Total assets | €11.190 billion (2024) |
| Total equity | €4.133 billion (2024) |
Number of employees | 41,400 (corporate) 260,300 (2024) |
| Website | randstad |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
Randstad NV, commonly known asRandstad and stylized asrandstad, is a Dutch multinationalhuman resource consulting firm headquartered inDiemen, Netherlands. Along withAdecco, the company is one of the two largest staffing firms worldwide.[2]
The company was founded as Uitzendbureau Amstelveen in the Netherlands in 1960 by Gerrit Daleboudt andFrits Goldschmeding (1933-2024) based on an idea for a college thesis. Goldschmeding eventually became the richest person in the Netherlands.[3] The name was changed to Randstad NV four years later.[4]
In 2008, the company acquiredVedior for €3.3 billion.[5] That year, the company sold its unit in Portugal toKelly Services.[2]
In March 2011,Frits Goldschmeding resigned as vice chairman of the Supervisory Board. His last term ran from 2007 to 2011.[3]
In September 2011, Randstad acquiredSpherion for $770 million.[6]
In August 2016, Randstad acquiredMonster.com for $429 million in cash.[7] In September 2024, Monster merged withCareerBuilder, and funds managed byApollo Global Management became the majority owner of the websites, with Randstad retaining a minority investment.[8]
Randstad was a sponsor of BritishFormula One teamWilliams F1 from 2006 until 2017.
In 2019, Randstad became the sponsor of Italian Formula 1 teamScuderia Toro Rosso, since 2020 calledScuderia AlphaTauri.[9]
In 2019, Google contracted with Randstad to collect data for itsPixel 4 facial recognition authentication feature. Google's stated goal with the project was to make the feature more inclusive by collecting facial data from people with dark skin, and those participating in the research were given a $5 gift certificate. However, theNew York Daily News reported that Randstad project leaders allegedly directed its workers to maximize data collection by deceiving participants and targeting homeless people inAtlanta, Georgia.[10][11] Randstad stated that, after hearing concerns about how information was presented to participants and obtaining consent, the project was temporarily suspended and project leaders were retrained.[12] After the report was published, Google shut down its field research and was investigating the allegations.[13]
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