CDI Corporation
June 12, 2025 - 6:26 pm
Business Profile
CDI Corp. (CDI) is a leading service provider in various fields like engineering and information technology (IT), professional staffing and outsourcing solutions. Company provides services to 1000 companies of Fortune group and several multinational companies, which is non-United States based but primarily worked in United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Company gets the majority of its revenue by providing services to these companies. Company offers services like project outsourcing, franchise services, staffing services and permanent placement services.
CDI was founded on 16th September in year 1950 in Philadelphia with the name Comprehensive Designers Inc. Initially Company provides engineering and technical services to the various type of business on outsourced or temporary basis. In 1967 company went public and in 1973 company got a condensed name that was CDI Corp.
CDI’s shares are traded on New York Stock Exchange under the ticker of CDI. In 2006 CDI obtained 11.6% revenue growth and the Total Net earning registered was $23,263 thousand. In 2007 CDI Corp. sold his subsidiary Todays Staffing, Inc to Spherion Corporation
CDI provides business solutions to various clients worldwide. Company has four integrated business units –
CDI Engineering Solutions – It provides high quality engineering and outsourcing services to various clients. It creates a long term partnership with clients and fulfills its business or technical needs by engineering services and highly professional staffing. Company has offices in US, Mexico, Canada, Germany and China. It provides their engineering services all over the world in following sectors.
1. CDI- Aerospace: Provides several services like consulting, outsourcing, design, staffing solutions, and engineering solutions to the military and commercial satellite and aerospace industries. Company has head quarter in Philadelphia and several offices all over the world. Also company has partners through out the world to improve their market and technical skills.
2. CDI-Government Services: They provide various design, engineering, manufacturing and IT solutions to various government agencies like military, marine industry, Defense, US Navy etc. This division has about 30 years of experience in government sector.
3. CDI-Life Sciences: Division has several biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients all over the world. CDI-Life Sciences offers several outsourcing, engineering, construction management, and design and staffing solutions to these companies. Company has expertise in validation of biotechnology, research, Bulk API, and development solutions. Company has several world wide joint ventures to improve their market.
4. CDI-Process and Industrial: Provides services to Fortune companies in two sectors, Process includes chemical and hydrocarbons processing industries and Industrial part includes telecommunications, power and energy and heavy manufacturing sectors. Company has offices mainly in North America and provides services throughout Europe and Eastern countries. They also offer some technical outsourcing services for multiple needs of companies.
CDI IT Solutions – It provides IT consulting, outsourcing, and staffing services to clients that helps clients to improve their infrastructure, service level, investments and cash flow. It offers several IT related services like system and network support, call center operations, development and maintenance of application, project management and IT staffing management program. This division provides 3 following core services.
1. IT Consulting: It offers their services in various areas like business applications, program management, quality assurance, effectiveness of IT operations, outsourcing services.
2. IT Outsourcing: It provides business application services, IT operations, and program management services through outsourcing.
3. IT Staffing: Its core services includes IT contract staffing, management services and direct placement.
AndersElite Limited – It is a service and professional staff provider firm that offers services in construction and engineering markets. Its operation is based in UK and Australia. There services include architecture, commercial and industrial construction, rail services, building service, interior design, facility management and town management projects in private and government sector. It is a $1.2 billion public company, in 2006 company generated about 2% of revenue from Australian operations. Anderselite offers several human resources and quality recruitment services to clients in various sectors.
Company’s genesis started with the merging of two companies Anders Glaser Wills, established in 1983 and Euro Elite, established in 1991. Company again merged in CDI Corp. in 1992 and became an important division of CDI Corporation.
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