This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Type | Public |
---|---|
Industry | Human resources |
Founded | 1992 |
Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
Area served | Europe |
Key people |
|
Revenue |
|
| |
Website | https://www.cpl.com/ie |
CPL Resources is a human resources company based in Dublin that operates in Ireland and Europe. It was founded in 1992. CPL was founded by Anne Heraty and Keith O'Malley as Computer Placement Ltd in 1989. Currently, the group has 12 companies spread over 21 offices: 12 in the Republic of Ireland, two in Northern Ireland, and seven in the rest of Europe.
As of 2010, CPL consisted of 12 companies with 21 offices (excluding the place of work at the premises of CPL's customers): [1]
In 1989, Anne Heraty and Keith O'Malley founded Computer Placement Ltd. providing staff for the IT industry. In 1992, Heraty bought out the other shareholders, including O'Malley and became the 100% owner of CPL. In 1996, Heraty's husband Paul Carrol joined the company. Currently, he is the director of Business Development. In 1994, a restructuring of Computer Placement Ltd. started and from then on they used CPL mainly as a trade-name. The restructuring continued over the next few years and in 1996 the companies' CPL Engineering (construction) and CPL Solutions (IT/call centres) were founded. In 1997 the first new office opened in Limerick. In 1998, some new divisions were set up within Computer Placement Ltd: CPL Telecoms, CPL Sales and CPL Financial. [3]
In 1999, the PLC, CPL Resource PLC was founded and the shares were floated on the DCM marker of the Irish Stock Exchange and the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) market at the London Stock Exchange. In the same year, the company opened an office in Northern-Ireland.[ citation needed ]
In the 2000s, CPL acquired a number of companies including Careers Register, Tech Skills and Multiflex.[ citation needed ]
In July 2018, a Channel 4 investigation on Dispatches titled Inside Facebook: Secrets of a Social Network described CPL's role in providing content moderation services to Facebook through a team of employees who were instructed to allow certain types of graphic violence and hate speech to remain on Facebook. [8] In March 2019, a former worker at CPL's Dublin location reported a high-pressure environment where moderators were required to evaluate videos containing graphic violence, child pornography, animal abuse, and other disturbing content with the expectation of meeting a 98% "quality rating". [9]
CPL has acquired over a dozen companies during its existence. These were all acquired after its listing as a public company. [10]
Company | Year | Market | Country of origin |
---|---|---|---|
Careers Register | 2000 | Financial | Ireland |
Multiflex Human Resources | 2002 | Administration & Financial | Ireland |
Tech Skills Resources | 2002 | Construction/Production | Ireland |
Ann O'Brien | 2002 | Secretarial | Ireland |
Marlborough Group Ltd temp contracts department | 2002 | Divers | Ireland |
Thornshaw Recruitment | 2004 | Healthcare | Ireland |
Nurse Finder | 2006 | Healthcare | United Kingdom |
Eastlink Recruitment | 2006 | Production, IT, Construction, Financial | Ireland international active |
Key6 Business Solutions | 2007 | IT/Consultancy/Management | Czech Republic and Slovakia |
Northside Recruitment Service Kate Cowhig International Recruitment Richmond Recruitment Group | 2007 | General | Ireland |
Techstaff International | 2009 | Technique | United Kingdom |
Nifast | 2009 | Healthcare | Ireland |
Ecom Intercations | 2009 | Financial customer care | Ireland |
Kenny Whelan & Associates | 2009 | Contract and Permanent Recruitment | Ireland |
Servisource | 2010 | Recruitment and Healthcare | Ireland |
Clinical Professionals Ltd | 2015 | Scientific and Clinical recruitment | United Kingdom [11] |
Covalen | 2019 | Managed Services and Outsourcing | Ireland |
CPL's financial year runs from 1 July to 30 June of the next year. In the table below (and other text) the years mentioned are fiscal years. For example, 2010 means the fiscal year from July 1, 2009, up to and including June 30, 2010.
In the table below figures are published over the period FY 2006 - FY 2009 and also the figures over the first year that CPL was trading on the LSE and ISE (2000). Each figure is followed by its delta comparing it to the previous year with these exceptions:
Item | FY 2009 [12] | Delta 2008 | FY 2008 [12] | FY 2007 [13] | Delta 2006 | FY 2006 [13] | Compared to 2000 avg.per year | FY 2000 [14] | Delta in % from 1999 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Turnover in € mln | 212,4 | -45,2 | 257,6 | 62,1 | 195,5 | 47,4 | 148,1 | 20,4 | 26,0 | 25% |
Free income € mln | 35,0 | -17,5 | 52,5 | 9,5 | 43,0 | 14,8 | 28,2 | 2,7 | 11,9 | 58% |
Operatial profit in € mln | 0,143 | -19,6 | 19,8 | 1,3 | 18,5 | 8,2 | 10,3 | 0,97 | 4,5 | 45% |
Net profit € mln | 0,681 | -17,3 | 18,0 | 1,2 | 16,8 | 7,5 | 9,3 | 1,05 | 3,0 | 48% |
Profit per share in €cent | 1,7 | -46,5 | 48,3 | 3,3 | 45,0 | 20,1 | 24,9 | 2,6 | 9,3 | 29% |
The board of CPL Resources PLC. is per 30-06-2009 as follows: [15]
Name | function/role | with CPL since | # shares holding as per 30-06-2009 [16] | =% of issued shares [17] |
---|---|---|---|---|
Anne Heraty | CEO | 1989 | 12.907.764 | 34,7 |
John Hennesy | non-executive chairman | 1989 | 125.000 | 0,33 |
Paul Caroll | Business-Development | 1996 | 2.234.061 | 6,01% |
Brefni Byrne | non-exec mbr enumerations grp | 1999 | 10.000 | 0,03% |
Garnet Roche | CEO Flexsource | 1995 | 63.192 | 0,17% |
Mark Buckley | CFO | 2013 | ||
Oliver Tatton | non-executive | 2007 | 0 | 0% |
The percentages given in the last column of the table above are based on the number of issued shares as of June 2010. The number of issued shares is 37,199,825. [17]
Heraty and her husband Carrol own over 40% of all issued shares in CPL Resources PLC. This stake in the company represents a value of €36 million based on the average price in May 2010 of €2.40. Using the year-low prices of approximately €1.45, as it was in June/July 2009, this represents a value of some €22 million. [18]
A public limited company is a type of public company under United Kingdom company law, some Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the Republic of Ireland. It is a limited liability company whose shares may be freely sold and traded to the public, with a minimum share capital of £50,000 and usually with the letters PLC after its name. Similar companies in the United States are called publicly traded companies. Public limited companies will also have a separate legal identity.
Accenture plc is an Irish-American professional services company based in Dublin, specializing in information technology (IT) services and consulting. A Fortune Global 500 company, it reported revenues of $64.1 billion in 2023. Accenture's current clients include 91 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500. As of 2022, Accenture is considered the largest consulting firm in the world by number of employees.
Euronext Dublin is Ireland's main stock exchange, and has been in existence since 1793.
SSE Airtricity is an energy company founded in Ireland in 1997, and now a subsidiary SSE plc. SSE Airtricity supplies and distributes electricity and gas to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
CRH plc is an international group of diversified building materials businesses whose headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland. It manufactures and supplies a wide range of products for the construction industry. The group was formed through a 1970 merger of two leading Irish public companies, Cement Limited and Roadstone Limited (1949). CRH's primary listings are on the London Stock Exchange and on Euronext Dublin, but from 25 September 2023 its primary listing will be on the New York Stock Exchange.
Medtronic plc is an American medical device company. The company's operational and executive headquarters are in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and its legal headquarters are in Ireland due to its acquisition of Irish-based Covidien in 2015. While it primarily operates in the United States, it operates in more than 150 countries and employs over 90,000 people. It develops and manufactures healthcare technologies and therapies.
PC World was a British retail chain of mass market computer megastores. Established in November 1991, it became part of Dixons Retail in February 1993, and then part of Dixons Carphone, after the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse in August 2014. All of its physical shops in the United Kingdom traded under the combined "Currys PC World" brand, although this was retired in October 2021, after which point the company became known simply as “Currys”.
Currys is an electrical retailer and aftercare service provider operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, specialising in white goods, consumer electronics, computers and mobile phones.
The Airport Line is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail commuter rail system in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which officially runs between Philadelphia International Airport through Center City to Temple University station. In practice, however, only a few trains originate or terminate at Temple University; most are through routed with lines to the north after leaving the Center City Commuter Connection. Half of weekday trains are through routed with the Warminster Line, with the other half of weekday trains through routed with the Fox Chase Line. All weekend and holiday trains are through routed with the Warminster Line and terminate either in Warminster or Glenside.
Pendragon PLC is the second largest motor retailer in the United Kingdom. It operates the Evans Halshaw, Stratstone, brands of Quickco, Car Store used car supermarkets in United Kingdom, and dealerships in the United States. The company is based at Annesley, Nottingham. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Vedanta Resources Limited is a diversified mining company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest mining and non-ferrous metals company in India and has mining operations in Australia and Zambia and oil and gas operations in three countries. Its main products are Zinc, Lead, Silver, Oil & Gas, Iron Ore, Steel, Aluminium and Power. It has also developed commercial power stations in India in Odisha and Punjab.
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American technology giant Meta Platforms. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age limit is 14 years. As of December 2022, Facebook claimed 3 billion monthly active users, and ranked third worldwide among the most visited websites. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s.
Connaught plc was a company in the United Kingdom, operating in the social housing, public sector and compliance markets. A constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, it went into administration in October 2010.
Anne Heraty is an Irish business woman. She is co-founder, major stake-holder and also CEO of CPL Resources.
The ISEQ Smallcaps index is a benchmark stock market index composed of companies that trade on the Euronext Dublin. The index comprises the smaller companies contained within the ISEQ Overall Index. The Small Cap Index represents an asset class of its own, i.e. the smaller quoted companies. This type of asset class offers potential for growth which may not always seen in larger entities. It also represents an attractive asset class from the portfolio theory perspective; i.e. diversification into chosen smaller capitalisation stocks is likely to improve the risk return equation for investors.
The Cynwyd Line is a SEPTA Regional Rail line from Center City Philadelphia to Cynwyd in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Originally known as the Ivy Ridge Line, service was truncated on May 17, 1986, at its current terminus at Cynwyd.
The Chestnut Hill East Line is a route of the SEPTA Regional Rail system. The route serves the northwestern section of Philadelphia with service to Germantown, Mount Airy, and Chestnut Hill. It is one of two lines that serve Chestnut Hill, the other one being the Chestnut Hill West Line. The line is fully grade-separated.
Meta Platforms, Inc., doing business as Meta, and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services. Meta is one of the world's most valuable companies and among the ten largest publicly traded corporations in the United States. It is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Google's parent company Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.
Irish Residential Properties REIT Plc or IRES is a multi-unit residential letting company and REIT focused on the Dublin property market and that of other major Irish urban centres. It is listed on Euronext Dublin and is a constituent member of the ISEQ 20 with a market capitalisation of €873m as of 31 January 2020. It has a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange.
Greencoat Renewables PLC is an Irish investment company investing in primarily Irish and Euro denominated European wind farms and renewable energy infrastructure. Established in 2017, its primary listing is on the Irish Stock Exchange, where it is a constituent of the ISEQ 20 stock market index. Greencoat Capital LLP acts as investment manager to Greencoat Renewables PLC and its sister company Greencoat UK Wind.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), visited 2 June 2010