Staffline Regulatory News (STAF)

For Immediate Release 14 October 2014

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

('Staffline' or 'the Group')

Board appointment

Staffline, the national recruitment, outsourcing, training and Welfare to Work organisation providing people and operational expertise to industry, is today delighted to announce the appointment of Ed Barker as a Non-Executive director with effect from 1 November 2014.

Ed, aged 41, has over 11 years of experience in the retail sector working across a number of senior financial and operational functions including; Group Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Pensions, Group Financial Controller and Retail & Logistics Finance.

Prior to working in industry, he achieved professional ACA qualification with PwC in 1998, and was made an FCA in 2013.

Following his appointment to the board, Ed will succeed Nick Keegan as chairman of the Audit and Risk Management committees as well as be a member of the Remuneration and Nomination committees.

Andy Hogarth, Chief Executive of Staffline, commented:

"We are delighted that Ed has agreed to join the board. He brings a wealth of experience from the retail sector which remains a core area of growth and focus for our recruitment divisions. Ed's experience in major listed Companies will also be of great value as we continue to grow the business in line with our stated strategic ambitions. We look forward to welcoming him in November."

About Staffline

Staffline Group plc was historically a recruitment organisation specialising in food processing, manufacturing, e-retail, driving and logistics. We provide and manage industrial workforces and use training and business improvement techniques to ensure increased levels of efficiency to give our clients a significant commercial advantage. Our recruitment business now operates from well over 200 locations in the UK, Ireland and Poland, supplying up to 33,000 temporary workers each day. 

Our recruitment brands now include Select Appointments, providing white collar office staff and Staffline Express, providing blue collar staff, both High Street branch operations. Staffline OnSite is based on clients' premises and also provides both blue collar and white collar temporary staff, Driving+ provides HGV drivers, Staffline Agriculture provides workers to the UK farming and growing sectors, while Resourcing Plus offers cost effective permanent recruitment solutions.

Our other areas of operation include Elpis, a national training and consultancy organisation, OSP, a specialist volume recruitment call centre and Avanta (which includes Staffline's original EOS), a provider of Welfare to Work and skills training services across the UK helping the long term unemployed back in to work. We expanded our training capabilities in 2013 with Learning Plus, a technologically advanced e-learning platform designed to deliver extremely cost effective work-based skills training.

The following information is disclosed pursuant to Rule 17, Schedule Two (g) of the AIM Rules.