StepStone Solutions Sales Exceed €1 Million in Q1 2005

5 April 2005
5 New Customers Select StepStone’s Solutions

In the first quarter of 2005, StepStone Solutions has concluded sales in excess of €1 million and added 25 new customers for its products.

In addition to those announced earlier in the quarter, new customers include: in Sweden Öhrlings PriceWaterhouse Coopers and the retailers OnOff and PC City; in Denmark IT services company KMD; in UK communications advisors salt; and in Norway retailer Lefdal Elektromarked, local authority Søndre Buskerud Politidistrikt and convenience stores Reitan Servicehandel.

In Austria, the HireEnterprise solution from StepStone has been adopted by Deloitte, to support their recruitment outsourcing business. Earlier in the quarter the product was also selected by Anglian Water Services, one of the UK’s leading providers of water and waste water services.

In addition, during the first quarter StepStone has renewed a number of existing solutions contracts including TNT Global Express in Italy and Shell in Norway, as well as undertaking additional services work for a number of existing clients.

Taken together, total sales of StepStone Solutions products and services in the first quarter of 2005 were in excess of €1 million.

“Breaking the €1 million mark for the first time demonstrates the strong market acceptance that StepStone’s solutions have achieved as organisations across Europe increasingly focus on the need to attract and retain the highest calibre staff,” said Colin Tenwick, CEO of StepStone.

StepStone Solutions customers benefit from improved hiring quality, reduced costs and faster time-to-hire. StepStone’s work at Canon Europe, who selected the HireEnterprise product in the 3rd quarter of 2004, was recently featured in the UK Sunday Times (13 February 2005). As part of its “global excellence plan” and working with StepStone, Canon has reengineered its European recruiting practices across 14 countries, 21 business operations and 10 languages.

About StepStone Solutions
StepStone Solutions uses state-of-the-art technologies to provide organisations with their own fully branded online recruitment sites. StepStone offers a range of products to meet the needs of organisations large and small for solutions that increase the quality of talent, reduce hiring time and save costs. All StepStone Solutions are offered as fully managed services on an ASP basis so that they can be deployed rapidly, delivering results to the business immediately. StepStone Solutions customers include Canon Europe, Irish Life, Arval, Carrefour Belgium, Robert Bosch, TNT Global Express, Toyota Europe, Adecco, Coca Cola, Pfizer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and Shell.

For more information see www.stepstone.com/solutions.