Contract Win

For Immediate Release 23 July 2014

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

('Staffline' or 'the Group')

Contract Win

Staffline, the national recruitment, outsourcing, training and Welfare to Work organisation providing people and operational expertise to industry, is pleased to announce that EOS has secured one of the three Northern Ireland 'Steps to Success' contracts.

The Steps to Success contracts are Northern Ireland's main adult employment programme, operated by the Department of Employment and Learning ('DEL'), and similar to the Work Programme currently in operation across England, Scotland and Wales. The four year contract includes an additional possibility of a two year extension and will position EOS as the sole prime provider in the Northern region of the province.

The EOS delivery model will incorporate the use of Staffline's innovative Employment & Training Centres and will include centres in Derry / Londonderry and Newtownabbey. The contract will be supported by Staffline Ireland to create employer led staffing solutions. The contract will also feature EOS's latest innovation, a tablet based mobile solution aimed at supporting customers in outlying areas who are less able to travel to the centres.

Andy Hogarth, Chief Executive of Staffline, commented:

"This is an excellent contract win for EOS and we are delighted to extend our reach in Northern Ireland. The Steps to Success programme is tailored to Northern Ireland, reflecting the needs of the region. Staffline's EOS model suits this programme perfectly and we look forward to working with the DEL going forwards."

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.