Staffline Regulatory News (STAF)

For immediate release 4 January 2012

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

("Staffline" or "the Group")

Trading Update

Staffline, the national outsourcing organisation providing people and operational expertise to industry, today issues a trading update for its financial year ended 31 December 2011, ahead of its preliminary results for the period which it expects to announce on Monday 27 February 2012.

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

Andy Hogarth, Chief Executive of Staffline commented:

"The Group continues to make progress on a number of strategic fronts and considers itself well placed to weather the uncertain economic outlook over the next 12 months"

About Staffline

Staffline Group plc is a recruitment organisation specialising in food processing, manufacturing, e-retail 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 150 locations in the UK, Staffline supply over 20,000 blue collar workers each day. Brands include Staffline Express, the High Street branch operation, OnSite, where we are based on clients' premises, Peter Rowley a national training and consultancy organisation, EOS a Welfare to Work supplier and OSP a specialist volume recruitment call centre.