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Andy Katz / CEO, Manpower of Las Vegas
The Las Vegas Manpower franchise began with the parents of the current president and CEO, Andy Katz.
In 1963, Mike Katz, saw an ad in the Wall Street Journal about Manpower expanding west. That was enough to convince Mike and Bee Katz to move to Las Vegas from Long Island with their four children. Andy, their youngest, was only a year old at the time.
A year after arriving in Las Vegas, the Katz family opened the first Manpower franchise in Las Vegas.
"We're celebrating our 50th year," Andy Katz points out. "It started as a small office downtown, and it just grew as the city grew" Now, there are three locations; one in North Las Vegas on West Cheyenne, the Downtown location on Third, and the Southeast location at Eastern and Sunset.
The original downtown location is long closed but, Katz explains, "We've moved our corporate offices back downtown after 50 years. We purchased a building on Third. ... It was the original first church in Las Vegas - the First Methodist Church - that we remodeled and feel back at home."
Katz attended Valley High School and UNLV, where he received his degree in business management. He explains, "It was kinda always the plan get into the business. I was working in the business all through high school and college." He spent two years in Denver working in the corporate office before returning to the family business. He...