JOOST KREULEN HEADS UP EMPRES

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Empresaria Group PLC

15 December 2008

PRESS RELEASE

JOOST KREULEN HEADS UP EMPRESARIA ASIA OPERATIONS

Crawley, UK - 15 December 2008:- Empresaria Group plc, the international specialist staffing group, has appointed Joost Kreulen as Head of Asia Operations, effective 1st January 2009.

The Group today announces that Joost Kreulen has agreed to join the Empresaria senior management team. Joost was until recently the Managing Director of the professional recruitment division of Vedior N.V. in the Netherlands. Before joining Vedior, Joost was Managing Director of Select Appointments in The Netherlands and the Nordic countries.

Joost will join Empresaria from 1st January 2009 as Head of Asia Operations. He will take on responsibility for overseeing and supporting over 20 existing group companies in eight different countries as well identifying and helping develop new investments in the region.

Miles Hunt, Group Chief Executive commented:

“Joost has over twenty years’ management experience and success in the staffing industry, over 12 of these within the decentralised structure and entrepreneurial culture of Select/Vedior, a similar environment to that at Empresaria. He is already familiar with our management philosophy and I have no doubt will add immediate value to our developing operations in the region. We welcome him to the group.”

ENDS

Editor's Notes

About Empresaria

Empresaria is a worldwide staffing and recruitment specialist, operating in 22 countries across Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. It currently trades through over 50 companies, providing skilled staff - permanent and temporary - across several sectors including construction and engineering, finance, logistics, public sector, creative and media, human resources and domestic staff.
Core to Empresaria's success is its diversified nature - across multiple territories, and specialist sectors - and a business model, which allows management significant equity in their own businesses.