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July 12, 2007

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UNITED GROUP ACQUIRES UNICCO...UNICCO Service Company, one of the nation's largest integrated facilities management (FM) companies, has agreed to be acquired by United Group Limited for $408 million, payable in cash and United Group shares. headquartered in Sydney, Australia, United Group Limited is a diversified services and infrastructure company partnering with blue chip and government customers in six core sectors: property, rail, water, power,transport and resources. The company has operations throughout Australia, United States, Asia, Middle East and parts of Europe and is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with a market capitalization of approximately US$2.0 billion.

CONVERGYS WINS STARBUCKS DEAL...Convergys Corporation announced today a multi-year contract with Starbucks Coffee Company to provide global human resources business process services, beginning with Starbucks North American operations. Starbucks is the world’s leading retailer, roaster, and brand of specialty coffee with more than 13,500 stores in 40 countries employing more than 145,000 partners (employees). Under terms of the contract, Convergys will provide human resource (HR) administration and payroll services for Starbucks partners in the United States and Canada, along with benefits services for Starbucks partners in Canada.

PEROT SYSTEMS NAMES SENIOR LEADER...Anurag Jain will lead the Perot Systems Corporation's Consulting and Applications Solutions Group. Jain will continue to report directly to Peter Altabef, president and CEO, both as leader of the Consulting and Applications Solutions Group and in his existing capacity as leader of the Insurance and Business Process Solutions Group. He has more than 15 years of management, operations, consulting and business start-up experience and has been a senior leader of Perot Systems since 2003, when the company acquired his Healthcare-focused India-based technology business.

VMC NAMES COO...Technology services outsourcing and project management leader VMC, a subsidiary of Volt Information Sciences, Inc., has appointed Robert E. Wise as its new Chief Operating Officer. In this position, Wise will spearhead VMC’s operations across North America, Europe and Asia. Concurrently, VMC announced the promotion of Glenn Hoogerwerf into the role of Executive Vice President of VMC.

HCL OPENS DEVELOPMENT CENTER WITH KONICA MINOLTA...HCL Technologies Ltd announced the opening of an Offshore Development Centre in Chennai with Konica Minolta Group (KM), a global corporation in the field of imaging from input to output, to provide software services for KM’s Multi Function Peripherals (MFPs), printers and medical equipment business lines. The software services provided by HCL will support the Japanese language in order to communicate accurately with KM’s researchers. The contract is for three years and extendable thereafter every year.

TRINET ACQUIRES JPA...TriNet Group, Inc., a nationwide provider of human resource (HR) outsourcing services for small and medium-sized companies, has acquired John Parry & Alexander (JPA), an HR outsourcing and consulting services company based in Walnut Creek, California. All executives and employees from JPA have become full-time team members of TriNet. Specific terms of the transaction are not being disclosed.

Posted by jbowles at July 12, 2007 06:50 PM