{{short description|Human resources company based in Dublin}} {{multiple issues| {{Self-published|date=June 2019}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2019}} {{Update|date=June 2019}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox company | name = CPL Resources | type = Public | traded_as = {{unbulleted list|{{EuronextDublin|DQ5|IE0007214426}}|{{AIM|CPS}}}} | logo = CPL Logo.jpg | logo_size = 160px | founded = 1992 | location = Dublin, Ireland | area_served = Europe | key_people = {{ubl|Anne Heraty (founder)|Paul Carrol (business development)| Lorna Conn (CEO) | Josephine Tierney (CFO)}} | industry = Human resources | revenue = {{ubl|€ 212,4 million (2009)| € 257,6 million (2008)}} | net_income = {{ubl|€ 43.000 (2009)| € 17,6 million (2008)}} | 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.
== Description == As of 2010, CPL consisted of 12 companies with 21 offices (excluding the place of work at the premises of CPL's customers):<ref>Overview Specialist Areas on Investor Relations website] {{Cite web |url=http://investor.cpljobs.com/specialist_areas.html |title=Specialist Areas |access-date=2 June 2010 |archive-date=16 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616001141/http://investor.cpljobs.com/specialist_areas.html |url-status=dead }}, visited 2 June 2010</ref> * CPL: IT, construction, sales/marketing, call-centers (using companies and/or trade-names as: CPL Resourcing, CPL Solutions, CPL Engineering etc.) * Careers Register – Finance, accounting, banking and insurance * Tech Skills – Engineering and construction * ThornShaw – Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices * Flexsource – Industrial, Manufacturing, Hotel & Catering, Retail, Logistics, Construction and Warehousing * Ardlinn – Executive Search consultancy specializing in senior appointments (€100,000+) <ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.ardlinn.com| title = Global Irish Executive Search {{!}} Ardlinn}}</ref> * Clinical Professionals Group – Europe's leading life science recruiter *Covalen – Managed Services, Outsourcing, Consulting & Advisory Services.
== History == 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.<ref>[http://investor.cpljobs.com/history_of_cpl.html History of CPL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616001125/http://investor.cpljobs.com/history_of_cpl.html |date=16 June 2010 }} on investor relations website of the company, last visited 3 June 2010</ref>
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.{{refn|<ref>{{cite web|first1=Nick|last1=Statt|access-date=2019-06-21|title=Undercover Facebook moderator was instructed not to remove fringe groups or hate speech|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/17/17582152/facebook-channel-4-undercover-investigation-content-moderation|date=17 July 2018|website=The Verge}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Michael|last1=Hogan|access-date=2019-06-21|title=Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network, review - Reveals disturbing posts that Facebook allows on its site|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/07/17/inside-facebook-secrets-social-network-revealed-disturbing-posts/|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=17 July 2018|issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Isobel Asher|last1=Hamilton|access-date=2019-06-21|title=Secretly filmed footage reveals the training Facebook moderators are put through|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-moderator-training-secretly-filmed-by-channel-4-2018-7|website=Business Insider|date=18 Jul 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Colin|last1=Gleeson|access-date=2019-06-21|title=CPL has 'strong relationship' with Facebook despite Channel 4 documentary|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/cpl-has-strong-relationship-with-facebook-despite-channel-4-documentary-1.3672144|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=23 Oct 2018}}</ref>}} 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".<ref>{{cite news|first1=Jennifer|last1=O'Connell|access-date=2019-06-21|title=Facebook's dirty work in Ireland: 'I had to watch footage of a person being beaten to death'|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/facebook-s-dirty-work-in-ireland-i-had-to-watch-footage-of-a-person-being-beaten-to-death-1.3841743|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=30 Mar 2019}}</ref>
== Mergers and acquisitions == CPL has acquired over a dozen companies during its existence. These were all acquired after its listing as a public company.<ref>[http://investor.cpljobs.com/history_of_cpl.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616001125/http://investor.cpljobs.com/history_of_cpl.html|date=16 June 2010}} CPL Inestor Relations website: History of CPL, visited: 31-5-2010</ref> {| class="wikitable" width="70%" ! Company || Year || Market || Country of origin |- | Careers Register || 2000 || Financial || Ireland |- | Multiflex Human Resources || 2002 || Administration &<br />Financial || Ireland |- | Tech Skills Resources || 2002 || Construction/Production || Ireland |- | Ann O'Brien || 2002 || Secretarial || Ireland |- | Marlborough Group Ltd<br />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<br />international active |- | Key6 Business Solutions || 2007 || IT/Consultancy/Management|| Czech Republic and<br />Slovakia |- | Northside Recruitment Service<br />Kate Cowhig International Recruitment<br />Richmond Recruitment Group || 2007 || General || Ireland |- | Techstaff International || 2009 || Technique || United Kingdom |- | Nifast || 2009 || Healthcare || Ireland |- | Ecom Intercations || 2009 || Financial<br />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 <ref>https://cpl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Acquisition-of-Clinical-Professional-Limited-3rd-September-2015.pdf{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |- |Covalen |2019 |Managed Services and Outsourcing |Ireland |- |Irish HomeCare |2024 |Homecare |Ireland <ref>https://www.ccpc.ie/business/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/09/M.24.055-Merger-Announcement-.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=July 2025}}</ref> |}
== Financials == 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 1 July 2009, up to and including 30 June 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: *the delta between 2000 and 2006 is the average growth per year *the delta over 2000 is a relative growth in %.
{| class="wikitable" width="99%" ;" ! Item || FY 2009<ref name="JV09">CPL Resources Plc annual report [http://investor.cpljobs.com/documents/AnnualReport2009.pdf Fiscal year 2009]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> || Delta 2008 || FY 2008<ref name="JV09"/>|| Delta 2007| |FY 2007<ref name="JV07">CPL Resources Plc annual report [http://investor.cpljobs.com/documents/AnnualReport2007.pdf over FY 2007]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}(</ref> ||Delta 2006 || FY 2006<ref name="JV07"/>|| Compared to 2000<br />avg.per year|| FY 2000<ref name="JV00">CPL Resources Plc annual report [http://investor.cpljobs.com/documents/AnnualReport2000.pdf over FY 2000]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}(</ref> || Delta in % from 1999 |- | Turnover in € mln || 212,4 || {{loss}}-45,2 || 257,6 || {{profit}}62,1 || 195,5 || {{profit}}47,4 || 148,1 ||{{profit}}20,4|| 26,0 || {{profit}}25% |- | Free income € mln || 35,0 || {{loss}}-17,5 || 52,5 || {{profit}}9,5 || 43,0 || {{profit}}14,8 || 28,2 ||{{profit}}2,7 || 11,9 || {{profit}}58% |- | Operatial profit in € mln || 0,143 || {{loss}}-19,6 || 19,8 || {{profit}}1,3 || 18,5 || {{profit}}8,2 || 10,3 || {{profit}}0,97 || 4,5 || {{profit}}45% |- | Net profit € mln || 0,681 || {{loss}}-17,3 || 18,0 || {{profit}}1,2 || 16,8 || {{profit}}7,5 || 9,3|| {{profit}}1,05 || 3,0 || {{profit}}48% |- | Profit per share in €cent || 1,7 || {{loss}}-46,5 || 48,3 || {{profit}}3,3 || 45,0 || {{profit}}20,1 || 24,9 || {{profit}}2,6|| 9,3 || {{profit}}29% |}
==Board of directors== The board of CPL Resources PLC. is per 30-06-2009 as follows:<ref>[http://investor.cpljobs.com/board_of_directors.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616001115/http://investor.cpljobs.com/board_of_directors.html|date=16 June 2010}} Board-Of-Directors overview on Investors Relations website, visited: 31-5-2010</ref> {| class="wikitable" width="70%" ! Name || function/role || with CPL since || # shares holding<br />as per 30-06-2009<ref>[http://investor.cpljobs.com/documents/AnnualReport2009.pdf]{{Dead link|date=June 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} Annual Report 2009, page 12</ref>|| =% of issued shares<ref name="details">Detail from [http://www.ise.ie/app/equityDetails.asp?equity=521 ISEQ website on CPL Resources Plc] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623160138/http://www.ise.ie/app/equityDetails.asp?equity=521 |date=23 June 2010 }}, retrieved on 5 June 2010</ref> |- | Anne Heraty || CEO || 1989 || 12.907.764 || 34,7 |- | John Hennesy || non-executive<br />chairman || 1989 || 125.000 || 0,33 |- | Paul Caroll || Business-Development || 1996 || 2.234.061 || 6,01% |- | Brefni Byrne || non-exec<br />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.<ref name="details"/>
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.<ref>Value of shares CPL taken from [http://www.ise.ie/app/equityGenerateGraphTemp.asp?start_day=5&start_month=6&start_year=2010&end_day=5&end_month=6&end_year=2009&eToGraph=521&eToCompare=&etfToCompare=&cwToCompare=&indexToCompare=&showHL=&showVolume=&showMarkcap=&showTurnover=&showNumberTrades=&showBids=&showOffers= Year-graph CPL shares]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} on ISEQ website, bezocht 5 juni 2010</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.cpljobs.com/ie}}
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