CPL Resources
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| Industry | human resources for IT, administration, healthcare, engineering, construction and financial world |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
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Area served
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Europe |
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Key people
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Anne Heraty (CEO) Paul Carrol (business development) Josephine Tierney (CFO) |
| Revenue | € 212,4 million (2009) € 257,6 million (2008) |
| € 43.000 (2009) € 17,6 million (2008) |
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| Website | www |
CPL Resources Plc. is a resourcing/placement company based in Dublin, Ireland and active on several markets in Europe but still mainly focused on the home-market Ireland. The shares of CPL are traded on the Irish and UK stockmarkets (see below). CPLfounded by current CEO Anne Heraty and Keith O'Malley as Computer Placement Ltd back in 1989. Currently the group has 12 companies spread over 21 offices: 12 in Republic of Ireland, 2 in Northern Ireland and 7 in the rest of Europe. Based on the success of the company and the fact that it was (co)founded and being led by a woman Anne Heraty became a well known person and quite influential in the Irish economy.
The CPL Group consists of several companies each targeting different markets and offer several kinds of services, all related to work and human resources. Some of the companies within the group act solely as recruiters - finding and selecting candidates for specific roles or job-vacancies for their customer which their customer can then hire (or not). This resourcing work is done for external customers as well as finding people for their own activities not solely within the recruitment sector, such as for CPL Solutions Ltd. CPL Solutions Ltd. take over complete departments of their customers organisations and run it more or less independently: based on the agreed activities, CPL hires the people and are fully responsible for the running of that specific department. The CPL employees work at the offices of CPL's customers, and some of the departments run in 'mixed' mode where part of the lower management is from the customer and part of them is CPL employees.
Currently (2010) CPL consists of 12 companies with 21 offices (excluding the place of work at the premises of CPL's customers:
In 1989 Anne Heraty and Keith O'Malley found Computer Placement Ltd. offering staff for the IT industry. In 1992 Heraty buys out the other shareholders, including O'Malley and becomes 100% owner of CPL. In 1996 Heraty's husband Paul Carrol joins the company. Currently he is director of 'Business Development'. In 1994 a restructuring of Computer Placement Ltd. starts and from then on they mainly use CPL as tradename. The restructuring continues in the next years and in 1996 the companies CPL Engineering (construction) and CPL Solutions (IT/callcentres) are founded. In 1997 the first new office opened in Limerick In 1998 some new divisions are set up within 'Computer Placement Ltd': CPL Telecoms, CPL Sales en CPL Financial.
In 1999 the Plc CPL Resource Plc is founded and the shares are floated on the DCM marker of the and the AIM market at the . In the same year the company goes international by opening an office in Northern-Ireland
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