French recruitment firm Groupe Partnaire announced that it has acquired French temporary staffing firm Inter-Conseil.

Founded in 1995 in Metz, Inter-Conseil, delegates around 2,500 temporary workers every day in France, via a network of some fifty agencies spread over the national territory and has €100 million in turnover. The company also operated in Luxembourg.

According to Partnaire, this acquisition enables the group to significantly accelerate its development and strengthen its operations at the national level.

Partnaire, which operates in the industry, logistics, construction and tertiary sectors, said the acquisition is in line with its development strategy for 2022. Its main objectives for its 2022 strategy include ‘densifying the national network’, ‘settling in new European countries’, ‘offering an optimal digital experience to customers and candidates’, and ‘developing innovative HR solutions in partnership with start-ups’.

Philippe Gobinet, CEO of Partnaire, commented on the acquisition, “Partnaire and Inter-Conseil are entities with complementary skills. This qualitative merger gives us the best structural assets to make Groupe Partnaire a benchmark in Human Resources engineering, particularly by focusing on future initiatives with innovative digital tools and an expanded offer on payroll porting. Above all, our two companies also come together around the same values ​​ (reactivity, proximity, responsibility and operational excellence) implemented daily by our teams in the field.”

“Thanks to this strategic alliance and this major contribution, the Partnaire Group consolidates its regional roots in the East and South-West of France while developing its national network. The group is also strengthening its expertise in heavy industry and construction through its new locations in strategic geographical areas,” Partnaire stated.

Partnaire also has operations in Poland and Luxembourg. According to Partnaire, with the integration of Inter-Conseil, the group has 500 employees, 160 locations throughout the country and €400 million in turnover.

No further financial details of the transaction were disclosed.

Partnaire and Inter-Conseil ranked 14^th and 18^th, respectively on Staffing Industry Analysts list of Largest Staffing Firms in France for 2016.