Staffline Regulatory News (STAF)

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

("Staffline" or "the Group")

Trading Update

Staffline, the national recruitment and outsourcing organisation providing people and operational expertise to industry, today issues a trading update for its financial year ended 31 December 2012, ahead of its preliminary results for the period which it expects to announce on Monday 25 February 2013.

The Board today confirms that earnings for the full year will be in line with market expectations.

Andy Hogarth, Chief Executive of Staffline commented:

"We continue to make steady progress and remain well placed to continue to capitalise on a number of strategic opportunities that exist across our business."

About Staffline

Staffline Group plc is a recruitment organisation specializing in food processing, manufacturing, e-retail, driving and logistics. Staffline provides and manages industrial workforces and uses training and business improvement techniques to ensure increased levels of efficiency to give their clients a significant commercial advantage. Operating from over 200 locations in the UK, Staffline supply up to 30,000 blue collar workers each day. Brands include Staffline Express and Select Appointments, the High Street branch operations, OnSite based on clients' premises, Elpis Training a national training and consultancy organisation, OSP a specialist volume recruitment call centre and Eos, a Welfare to Work provider.