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The Bartech Group
Type Private
Founded 1976
Headquarters Livonia, Michigan, USA
Industry Workforce management and staffing
Revenue $30.9 million (est.)
Website www.thebartechgroup.com

The Bartech Group, headquartered in Livonia, MI is a full service provider of professional staffing support and outsourced vendor administrative services. Bartech recruits and employs technical/engineering and information technology professionals and office/administrative clerical support personnel on behalf of its Fortune 500 clients. Bartech is among the largest African-American owned companies in the rapidly expanding staffing services industry. Their contract professionals are full-time employees of The Bartech Group who are assigned to client companies to supplement their direct staffs. The company employs approximately 4,000 individuals across the U.S., and Bartech’s employees provide services to clients in more than twenty different states. The Company maintains branch office operations in Michigan, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, New York and Toronto, Canada[1].

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[edit] Business Divisions

Contingent Workforce Solutions - Workforce management solutions for large users of contingent staff.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing - Strategic management of the recruitment process for professionals across all categories of work and industry.

Search Services - Strategic sourcing, recruitment and direct placement of Finance & Accounting, Information Technology and Engineering professionals.

Staffing Services - Recruitment, placement and retention of contingent Information Technology, Finance and Accounting, Engineering, Technical and other Professional staff.

Business Process Outsourcing/Consulting - Management consulting and business process outsourcing solutions for medium to large organizations.

[edit] History

The Bartech Group evolved from a humble beginning. Founder John W. Barfield was the grandson of Alabama sharecroppers and dropped out of school at the age of 16. While serving as a custodian at the University of Michigan for $1.75 an hour, he promoted the idea that people would pay for his expertise in janitorial services. In 1954 he and his wife, Betty, established Barfield Cleaning Company. Fifteen years later, International Telephone and Telegraph Company acquired Barfield Cleaning Company at one of the highest multiples recorded in that era.

Having numerous contacts within the auto industry, Mr. Barfield incorporated John Barfield & Associates in 1976 to provide technical staffing services to the Big 3 Detroit automakers. The Company changed its name to The Bartech Group in 1984. Bartech became one of the nation’s first minority-owned and operated firms specializing in technical staffing.

Bartech grew rapidly, becoming a preferred supplier to many Fortune 500 companies. Currently, Bartech supplies contract personnel to clients including General Motors, Diamler-Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, Delphi, Magna International, and Visteon. Contract employees of The Bartech Group are entitled to the same benefit structure as their permanent in-house staff, including full health and medical coverage, 401(k) differment, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation and paid holidays.

[edit] Executive Board

John E. Barfield – CEO
Jon E. Barfield was appointed President of The Bartech Group in 1981 and was also named Chairman in 1995. Prior to his current position, Mr. Barfield also served as President of Barfield Manufacturing Company. Earlier in his career, he practiced corporate and securities law at one of the nation’s leading law firms, Sidley Austin, LLP in Chicago.

Mr. Barfield serves on the board of directors of National City Corporation, BMC Software and CMS Energy Corporation. He was also a member of the board of directors of Dow Jones & Company until its acquisition by News Corporation in December 2007. Jon volunteers his time as a director of several major, non-profit institutions. He is a Charter Trustee Emeritus of Princeton University and serves as a director of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit Renaissance and New Detroit. He also has served on the boards of Reading is Fundamental, The Children’s Center and the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan. He is past President of the National Technical Services Association, historically one of the staffing industry’s leading trade associations.

Mr. Barfield graduated with honors from Princeton University in 1974, and received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1977. Recently, the National Minority Supplier Development Council awarded Jon E. Barfield the Leadership Award for 2008. [2]

Jon W. Barfield – Executive Emeritus
John W. Barfield is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of The Bartech Group. Mr. Barfield incorporated John Barfield & Associates, later renamed The Bartech Group, in 1977. Although retired, he continues to contribute to the rich legacy of Bartech.

Mr. Barfield is active in many business and community organizations. Currently, he is a member of the board of directors of Spaulding for Children and Parkridge Community Center, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Michigan. He supports many humanitarian causes from eradicating polio in the third worlds, to saving a youth community center locally, to building wells that provide safe drinking water in developing countries such as Haiti and in Africa.

Mr. Barfield has received numerous honors and awards including the Tree of Life Award, the highest honor of the Jewish National Fund of America. Most recently he received the 2007 Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion, recognizing his lifelong contributions to improving the human condition.

Mr. Barfield holds honorary doctorate degrees from Grand Valley State University and Cleary College. He and his wife, Betty, have six adult children and reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Gary Peck – COO

Thomas J. Shea – CFO

Jennifer Spicher – Vice President of Recruitment

Mary Beth Vansen – VP of Operations, Bartech Workforce Management

Andrean Horton – General Counsel, Corporate Secretary

[edit] Awards and Recognition

The Bartech Group has grown primarily due to its focus on quality and customer service. Bartech Technical Services division’s quality operating system is certified to the standards of ISO 9001:2000, the international quality standard. Bartech also received Ford Motor Company’s prestigious Q1 Award in 1996 and the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Gold Pentastar Award in 1993. It was named General Motors “Minority Supplier of the Year” in 1983 and was Black Enterprise magazine’s “Company of the Year” in 1985.

The Bartech Group is a member of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, National Technical Services Association and the American Staffing Association. The Bartech Group was featured in Ford Motor Company’s 2002 and 2001 advertising campaigns highlighting its minority supplier development program. Ford placed national advertisements in Black Enterprise, Ebony, Fortune, Essence, Minority Supplier News and other publications featuring Bartech.

In 2002, Bartech acquired the assets of Rapid Design Services, Inc., employing 1,013 engineering professionals, and Pillar Technology Group, an Information Technology solutions and training organization. In 2001, Bartech acquired a majority stake in PIER (Partners in Energy Resources), a premier provider of staff augmentation services to the nuclear power and energy industry.

Bartech was featured by the National Minority Supplier Development Council in its Fall 2001 edition of Minority Supplier News. Bartech has also been designated by NMSDC as a “Corporate Plus” council member, a special category of minority owned member companies with national servicing capability. DaimlerChrysler Corporation sponsored Bartech in its application for Corporate Plus status.

Other notable awards include:

  • 2007 and 2006 GM Supplier of the Year Award
  • 2007 and 2006 Eaton Premier Supplier Award
  • 2008 National Minority Supplier Development Council Business Leadership Award
  • 2007 General Motors Corporation Supplier of the Year
  • 2007 Michigan Minority Business Development Council Class IV Minority Business Enterprise Supplier of the Year
  • 2007 Eaton Corporation Premier Supplier Award
  • 2006 General Motors Corporation Supplier of the Year
  • 2006 Progress Energy Minority Supplier of the Year
  • 2006 Ford Motor Company b2b Buyer Supplier Award
  • 2006 Eaton Corporation Premier Supplier Award
  • 2006 Eaton Corporation PEAK Award
  • 2006 Delphi Corporation Top MBE Supplier
  • 2006 Delphi Corporation Supplier Spotlight Award
  • 2005 Florida Regional Minority Business Council Outstanding Achievement Award
  • 2005 Delphi Corporation Top MBE Supplier
  • 2004 Delphi Corporation Top MBE Supplier
  • 2003 Rainbow PUSH Automotive Legacy Award
  • 2003 Michigan Minority Business Development Council Class IV Minority Business Enterprise Supplier of the Year
  • 2003 Delphi Corporation Tier 1 Supplier of the Year
  • 2000 DTE Energy Company Minority Supplier of the Year
  • 1997 Ford Motor Company Q1 Award

[edit] Community Involvement

Along with quality of service and fairness to employees, Bartech has defined one of its guiding principles as "being a good corporate citizen". As such, they are heavily involved with charitable organizations and nonprofit companies aimed at improving the quality of life across the globe.

Bartech Clean Water Initiative
Bartech's newest social initiative, launched during the first quarter of 2008. According to Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, “The stark truth is that every 15 seconds a child dies as a result of disease related to unsafe drinking water and inadequate sanitation.” The mission of this new humanitarian program is to improve the quality of life and provide health care, clean water, food, education, disease control and other essential needs primarily in Africa, Haiti and other developing countries. Specifically, Bartech seeks to fund the construction of wells that will provide clean, safe drinking water to adults and children currently forced to drink unsafe, contaminated water.

Share Products Program
John W. Barfield, Bartech’s Chairman Emeritus, founded the Share Products Program in 1992 to provide assistance for homeless Americans. Share marketed 26 items of food and other consumer goods through Meijers, Kroger, Spartan and other national retail chains across the country. One hundred percent of all profits received were contributed to the Salvation Army and other agencies in the form of free nights’ lodging and meals for homeless Americans. Mr. Barfield worked solely as a volunteer and received no salary or other remuneration for his work.

Spaulding for Children
John W. Barfield has been on the Spaulding for Children board of directors for nine years, and is Chairman of the Endowment Development Committee. Spaulding for Children, headquartered in Southeastern Michigan, is the only agency in the United States that specializes in finding and training adoptive families for special needs children, most of whom are minorities. Spaulding has found homes for more than eight hundred children since the agency was founded in 1968. Most of these children have been neglected or abused, and have lived in foster care homes an average of seven years prior to placement through Spaulding.

Eight years ago Mr. Barfield organized a $5 million endowment fund drive for Spaulding. In 2001, the goal was achieved due in large part to a few large “anchor” gifts he personally solicited. The $5 million raised will provide adoption and related services for 100 children each year in perpetuity. In 2008, Mr. Barfield is launching another major initiative to facilitate the adoption of a significant number of children.

Polio Eradication Program
Since 1985, Rotary International has worked to raise funds to eliminate polio throughout the minority populations of the Third World. The Rotary Foundation has given more than $200 million to purchase a five-year supply of polio vaccine. More than one hundred Third World nations have received grants, resulting in 600 million children being immunized. To assist in completing the Foundation’s work to completely eliminate this disease throughout the world, John W. Barfield proposed a fundraising program through his local Rotary Club to immunize one million children for over five years at a cost of $360,000.

Program to Assist the Development of Career Opportunities for Detroit/Pontiac Youth
Bartech has been an initiator of numerous programs designed to assist minority youth in the development of engineering and other career opportunities. The most notable of these programs was one developed to assist Detroit/Pontiac youth. Our first program, the Bartech Cooperative Drafting Training Program, was in operation from 1983 through 1988.

For this program, Bartech operated a 12,000 square foot drafting training school in Warren, Michigan, for minority high school graduates who expressed an interest in pursuing automotive design as a career choice. The program was successful in that over 90 percent of the trainees were residents of Detroit/Pontiac (those who most likely would not have had the financial wherewithal to pursue a career in engineering). More than 80 percent of our students graduated from the program, which was underwritten by General Motors.

Supporting African American Artists
Bartech proudly displays in its corporate and branch offices a collection of original works by Detroit and Michigan-based African American artists. This program not only helps provide a market for up-and-coming artists, but also highlights their achievements by “telling their story” to those who visit Bartech's facilities. Among the artists supported are Shirley Woodson, Paul Collins and others. The entire collection was organized by and purchased from two African American art galleries, the Sherry Washington Gallery and George N’Namdi Galleries of Detroit, Michigan.

Bartech Staff Community-Based Activities
All members of the Bartech family of associates are encouraged to participate in community related events and activities. Bartech’s Quality Operating System, Striving Toward Excellence Process (STEP), encourages and recognizes Bartech employees for the time and generosity shown toward the communities we serve. Following are a few of our employee-based activities:

Dress for Success
This program helps women who cannot afford to purchase business attire for job interviews. Bartech employees donate suits, blouses and accessories to help unemployed women return to the workplace. The program is ongoing; last fall Bartech donated more than 35 business suits.

Barat Child and Family Services
Bartech employees help celebrate Christmas for the benefit of 24 abused or neglected girls who live at the Barat House in Detroit. Bartech employees donate personal gifts for each girl (pajamas, robes, slippers, underwear, jewelry, hair and toiletry items), and also provide the Barat House with towels, sheets, blankets, pillows, rugs, comforters, books, games, and enough grocery store gift certificates to provide Christmas dinner. They also receive gifts throughout the year, including on birthdays, as well as are engaged in various activities.

Other activities include the following:

The Bartech Group is also a sponsor of numerous other community-based activities and organizations, some of which include:

Further, Bartech Group executives are integrally involved in many other organizations that benefit the community, including the Ronald McDonald House and the Detroit Historical Society, which operates the Detroit Historical Museum, Dossin Great Lakes Museum and Old Fort Wayne.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.hoovers.com/bartech/--ID__46867--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
  2. ^ http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2008/05/21/businesswire20080521006117r1.html

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