** Staffing company's shares CCNI up 25% at $4.90 after
market as company enters all-stock merger with peer Hire Quest
Holdings
** Command Center will issue about 9.8 mln shares to Hire
Quest's members, resulting in Hire Quest shareholders owning
~68% of CCNI urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nBw9Q7yv5a
** Hire Quest is a privately held provider of blue collar,
light industrial and administrative staffing
** CCNI to also tender for up to 1.5 mln shares at $6 per
share
** Up to Monday's close, stock had fallen ~28% in the past 1
yr
(Reporting by Aishwarya Venugopal in Bengaluru)
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