Proman President Roland Gomez is very proud of his latest acquisition. “We are now on the heels of the world leader at interim Randstad in his country,” he smiles. Before the summer, the one who in thirty-two years imposed himself as the 4And European protagonist of temporary work since the campaign of Manosque, a town in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, entered the world Top 10 with the purchase of the Dutch Timing which should allow it to exceed 4 billion euros this year. revenue . The operation is the most important of the group since its creation.
Number 3 in the Netherlands, Timing has a network of around a hundred agencies in the fourth European market (18 billion euros in turnover) and serves more than 1,200 companies with 830 permanent employees.
Acquisitions in Europe
Proman I don’t intend to stop you here. Excluding Timing, the group already has 750 agencies around the world (almost half of which in France) collaborating with over 45,000 companies in the industrial, construction, nuclear, pharmaceutical, automotive and hotel sectors. The operation concluded in the Netherlands now allows for the inclusion of 110,000 temporary workers in assignment every day, the equivalent of a group like CMA CGM .
The tense international context should now allow it to make other acquisitions, particularly in Italy, and to take advantage of the very strong growth in American demand, where its subsidiary plans to quintuple its business by 2025. By this date, the Manosque group could reach 6 billions of euros in turnover focus on the firstborn of the Gomez brothers. He wins the 2022 Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Southeast region, as part of his 30th edition of the Entrepreneur * of the Year award, organized by EY.
spoils of war
The secret of success he inherited from the difficult beginnings of the company where the founding father had to struggle in a rural environment, without cash, at the mercy of bad payers and market reversals. “From this we have drawn four golden rules that now guide the management of the group: diversify our activities (Proman also covers construction in addition to logistics, industry and the tertiary sector), not depend on a single customer (the most important among 30,000, accounts for 2.5% of turnover), verify their solvency, and treat temporary workers with loyalty, respect and recognition (to date he carries out more than 50,000 missions) “, explains the 47-year-old boss, who joined the company as a studio – I work as apprentices once they have completed their high school diploma in economics.
“I climbed all the steps for merit through hard work,” continues this relentless man who has no other occupation than spending time with his three children and running around to relax. This familiar thread has already convinced the shareholders of a dozen companies to join the group since the beginning of its international offensive in 2013: Heads, Paramount Staffing, TalentForce, Lem, AàZ Emplois, etc.
The activity abroad now represents half of the turnover and the group still has a war chest of several tens of millions of euros under its feet, together with a low level of indebtedness to carry out new acquisitions.
Official Scout for the Rugby World Cup 2023
External growth is not the only lever on which this man counts, always impeccably dressed in a suit without a tie, to become “the first family group of human resources in the world”. Official recruiter of several thousand reception, service, guide and safety personnel for Euro 2016, he is again for the Rugby World Cup France 2023 . Enough to consolidate its organic growth: last year Proman recorded double activity compared to the market with an increase of almost 20%.
* The Entrepreneur of the Year Award is organized by EY, in partnership with HSBC, Verlingue, Steelcase and Bpifrance.
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