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The staffing firm says its business service center that employs more than 600 will remain in Jacksonville. BY MARK BASCH CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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30 who started and run their companies. They all say they started their ventures by identifying a need and setting out to fill it. Bowling has worked with “a handful” of 20-somethings since the UNF center launched its program in 2019. She said startup founders under 30 have a strength — less aversion to taking chances.
The Adecco Group said Feb. 24 it is moving its North American headquarters from Jacksonville to Atlanta, but said its business service center that employs more than 600 will remain in Jacksonville. The Zurich, Switzerlandbased staffing and services company has had its North American headquarters in Jacksonville Ripoche since 2014. Adecco said it will move key leadership and commercial functions to the new office. “We look forward to building a hub in Atlanta, where talent, diversity, technology and innovation are thriving,” said Corinne Ripoche, regional president of the Adecco Group, Americas, in a news release. Adecco said it is looking for an office location in Atlanta and expects to open its new regional headquarters in the spring of 2022. Adecco has been in Jacksonville since the company bought MPS Group for $1.3 billion in January 2010. “Our robust business services center will remain in Jacksonville,
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Ideas, technology and a “fire in the gut” fuel their ventures. BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
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ounger entrepreneurs have a lot in common, the experts say. They don’t fear technology. They have fewer obligations, so they can take risks. And, like all entrepreneurs, they are driven by an idea. Karen Bowling, the inaugural director
of the University of North Florida Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, said startup founders under the age of 30 can offset their lack of life experience and a professional network with a solid business plan and “fire in the gut.” “Many of them know no fear, and they’re at a point in their life where they can take risks,” Bowling said. The Jacksonville Daily Record and the Jacksonville Record & Observer profiled four area entrepreneurs under the age of
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