This little plug-in electric car sure has come a long way, just as the company has since parent Mercedes-Benz took over management from Penske Automotive Group in spring 2011.
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The chief executive of Spring Group, Peter Searle, is actually a former Adecco employee as well, so there won't be a culture shock.
However, one local group - the Spring Foundation - is concerned that the work could disrupt the water source, although project managers say that won't happen.
"Adecco definitely needs a good management team in the U.K., " said Michael Foeth, an analyst with Bank Vontobel, who said Spring Group's focus on professional staffing could also bring in growth and profitability in the future.
The test was given to a group of more than two thousand freshmen in the fall of 2005, and again, to the same group, in the spring of 2007.
For just six weeks this spring, the group added over 100 more names to the roster.
Just how bleak was sketched out by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in spring.
He made his New York debut this spring in a group show with Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea.
On a spring afternoon, a group of freshmen are gathered to discuss broad reforms likely to be introduced at Yonsei next year.
Then there are the IPOs by buyout firms themselves, a trend that started this spring with Fortress Investment Group but which picked up a lot of steam when Blackstone floated 10% of its management company in June.
Then there are the IPOs by buyout firms themselves, a trend that started this spring with Fortress Investment Group (nyse: FIG - news - people ) but which picked up a lot of steam when Blackstone floated 10% of its management company in June.
On this first day of spring, one animal rights group is urging people to use the occasion of a fresh start, a brand new season, to give up eating meat.
For the past three years, the group has visited Memphis, Tennessee, each spring to help clean up a harbor on the Mississippi River where the waters are thick with debris.
"Even with the new normal of being informal, the proper way to start an e-mail is with 'Dear, '" said Cynthia Lett, director of the Lett Group, a protocol training company in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Meanwhile, volunteers have stepped in to help rebuild a group of baseball parks just in time for the spring season, and the town's three major industries have also vowed to rebuild and remain.
On a warm Wednesday night in April, I went to my friend's "Spring Spruce Up" party to be the group guinea pig.
Mr. Deripaska's group said it had acquired 10% of Hochtief last spring, when the construction company was trading at about three times its level today.
Former Penthouse editor Mark Healy recalls a heated conversation last spring with his then boss, Penthouse Media Group Chief Executive Marc Bell, who was angry about a magazine item that tweaked a celebrity.
They patched up their bullpen with a collection of journeymen and cheap veterans, a group that will likely include Brandon Lyon by the start of spring training.
He later took what he learned to the Obama 2008 campaign, and then later to a group of community activists prior to the rise of the Arab Spring.
Starring Franco, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens, the film tells the story of a group of girls who rob in order to pay for a spring break trip to Florida.
The current power carrying capacity of USB 3.0 connectors is limited today but by the Spring of 2012 a USB IF (USB trade group)a specification will be released that allows up to 100 W of power through a USB 3.0 cable.
The CBI employers' group predicted a "slow and fragile" return to growth in spring next year.
The government is due to unveil a plan to disrupt cyber criminals and ensure more of them were prosecuted "in the spring" and had agreed to form a joint working group with industry to tackle the problem.
"We think there's room for another marathon in Manhattan, in the spring, " said Scott Dickey, chief executive of Competitor Group, whose Rock 'n' roll marathon and half-marathon series has grown from six races in 2008 to 33 in cities around the world.
The Westminster government has set up an expert group to advise on testing and assessment, which will report later in the spring.
Others are also likely saving up for next month's Art Basel, the Swiss contemporary art fair whose owner MCH Group recently bought a majority ownership stake in Art HK. (Next spring, Art HK will be renamed Art Basel Hong Kong.) The fair closes Sunday.
Rivera spoke to a group of reporters, including the Journal's Daniel Barbarisi, Monday at his spring training locker in Tampa.
Last spring, the U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group shut down more than 200 websites selling goods into the U.S. market.
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This is the question a group of researchers asked in a recent study, the results of which were published this spring.
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