Kelly Girl Originals Celebrate in Style
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10th February 2004
Seven original Kelly Girls from 1973 attended a champagne presentation lunch in Birmingham to mark the finale of the company’s 30th Anniversary year. Inevitably Kelly had lost touch with the temporaries who worked with them in the early 1970’s, when the company was established in the UK, so a national ‘hunt’ for original Kelly Girls was launched last year encouraging them to get in touch and join in the 30th anniversary celebrations. A great time was had by all, and many of the original Kelly Girls commented that meeting the other ‘originals’ was like meeting old friends.
Lucky Maureen Lawrenson, a Kelly original from Llandudno, won the prize of a weekend away at a Marriott Hotel of choice. Ann Luke, Operations Director for Kelly Services, said, “We were absolutely delighted to have had the opportunity to meet some of our original Kelly girls who helped establish our reputation in the UK 30 years ago. It was really great to hear their stories and learn what they had been up to since they worked for us in the 1970’s. It was a brilliant end to our 30th anniversary celebrations.”
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About Kelly Services
Kelly Services is a leading UK recruitment and human resources organisation, placing around 20,000 temporary staff into jobs each week and more than 10,000 people in permanent work annually through a network of 120 offices across the country. Kelly Services, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company offering human resources solutions that include temporary services, staff leasing, outsourcing, vendor on-site and full-time placement. With more than 2,400 company owned and operated offices in 24 countries, Kelly provides to its customers nearly 700,000 individuals annually, with skills including office services, accounting, engineering, information technology, law, science, marketing, light industrial, education and health care.
The Kelly Girl Originals
(From Left to Right) Maureen Lawrenson from Llandudno, Jan Casserley from Birmingham, Lynne Shields from Birmingham, Linda Taylor from Manchester, Carole Collins from Basingstoke, Patricia Ellis from Northampton and Linda Hall from Milton Keynes with Ann Luke, Kelly Services Operations Director for the South.
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