Norrell

Norrell Corporation | Founded 1961 - Acquired 1999 | www.norrell.com Sales: $1.3 billion (1997) | Symbol: NRL Subsidiaries: Norrell Temporary Services, Inc.; Norrell Services, Inc.; Norrell Health Care, Inc.; Norrell Information Services, Inc.; Tascor, Inc. Born February 16, 1936, Guy Millner came from an entrepreneurial line. His father, Jack, operated a used furniture store and a service station north of Daytona Beach, Florida, and Millner worked at the station pumping gas during his high school years. Yet it was his mother, Nell, who truly inspired his business ambitions with her success selling magazine subscriptions over the telephone. After college, Millner attended Navy basic training, and served eight years in the Naval Reserve. In November 1961, having moved to Atlanta, he founded a company called Southeastern Personnel to help college graduates find jobs. His was the first company of its kind in the southeastern United States, and indeed the temporary services industry itself was a new phenomenon. In 1963, Millner purchased Norrell Personnel Services, a tiny Atlanta-based clerical employment agency which had only one full-time employee. Soon afterward, he renamed his own company Norrell Southeastern Corporation. At that point, the company had expanded its services to include placement of light industrial workers as well as clerical workers. In 1965, sales reached $1 million. Norrell Southeastern became the first company in the temporary services industry to franchise its operations, which it did in 1966. It began to grow beyond its Atlanta base with eleven company-owned locations and one franchise. Due to its geographic expansion, Millner dropped the “Southeastern” from the name, and in 1972 became Norrell Corporation. www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/norrell-corporation www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/norrell-corporation-history