But its global rivals for this outsourcing business, the U.K.'s Compass Group and France's Sodexho Alliance, each have at least 40% more sales.
In Group K, Romania's CFR Cluj -- who impressed in the Champions League last season -- won 2-0 at home to Danish side Copenhagen with second-half goals from Juan Culio and substitute Lacina Traore.
Meanwhile, in Group K , Otman Bakkal's first-half header was enough for PSV Eindhoven to claim their opening win at home to CFR Cluj.
Liverpool had an unkind draw too, the Reds put into Group K along with Romania's Steaua Bucharest, Italy's Napoli and Utrecht of the Netherlands.
Its importance has grown in recent years after the banking crisis forced two of the U.K.'s largest financial institutions, Lloyds Banking Group PLC and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, to halt dividend payments after the government bailed them out.
Over 60 percent of the group's sales come from the U.K., where the company has 3, 000 stores and employs more than 300, 000 people.
This year two U.K. banks, HSBC and Barclays, followed telecoms giant BT Group 's lead last year in committing to increase its use of renewable or environmentally sound energy.
The London Stock Exchange is headlining the law among reasons that foreign firms should list stock in the U.K. instead of the U.S. German carmaker Porsche AG and reinsurer Benfield Group are among those scared away by Sarbanes-Oxley from U.S. listings lately, meaning less business for local exchanges and fewer choices for investors.
Pete Harris recently completed a survey about this, polling major financial markets firms in the U.S. for Andover, U.K.-based financial IT researcher A-Team Group.
Companies like U.K. firm Vodafone, U.S.-based Lockheed Martin and China's Haier Group landed toward the bottom of the list, with scores under 65--but they aren't losers by many means.
Baddeley's compatriot Jason Day was tied for ninth on 281 in a group including South Korean veteran K.J.
The company saw growth both in its U.S. and Asian units, and its consumer products group (CPG) which houses its K-cup sales.
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The other group, which now sadly includes U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, insists the euro zone should move to an immediate political and fiscal union.
"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.
Vodafone may have released upbeat performance data on Monday, saying it had added 4.5 million new customers for the three months to 30 June and that earnings were "robust", yet U.K. newspapers reported over the weekend that institutional investors representing up to 15% of the group's capital were plotting to vote against Sarin's reelection at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday.
Domenic DiPiero, president of Newport Capital Group, said employers, or plan sponsors, have an incentive to have 401(k)s moved to their rightful place as smaller, inactive 401(k)s can hurt the employer's plan.
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