StepStone announces continued growth and demand during Q2

StepStone today announces that the growth and demand experienced across all of its markets and products in Q1 2007 has continued into the first half of Q2.

Our continued momentum during 2007 demonstrates the success of our Total Talent strategy. We are achieving above market growth in all of our target markets, by successfully leveraging our broad product range into both new and existing customers, commented Colin Tenwick, CEO, StepStone.

Key customer highlights for the quarter include:

ALM Brand (Denmark) is the first customer to select a combined StepStone recruitment and talent management solution

The opening of StepStone's first office in Asia (Singapore) is rapidly followed by a major customer win, Ford China. The win is the latest in a growing number of Chinese organisations using StepStone i-GRasp

New customers for the quarter include Bank of New York, Siemens, Erste Bank (Austria), Finmeccanica, Fujitsu Services (Italy), Landesbank Baden-Wurtemberg, Engel&Volkers (Germany) and Sabic (UK).

Additional corporate milestones include:

In Belgium, StepStone extended its market position through a partnership with newspapers La Libre Belgique and La Derniere Heure

In Austria, improved performance has led to a record 40,000 online job postings for the recently-acquired Jobfinder.at job board

Relaunch of the StepStone.com corporate web site focussing on Total Talent

In May, StepStone unveiled Germany's first manual industries job board, Arbeiten.de, and now boasts over 3,000 users every day

Financial coverage of StepStone increases as FondsFinans and Glitnir initiate coverage.

We have had a strong start to the year, and our outlook for the rest of 2007 remains unchanged - we will continue to execute in line with our stated business plans. Our success in developing existing customers in line with our Total Talent vision, coupled with the integration of ExecuTRACK, leaves us positioned as Europe's number one supplier in this field, Tenwick concluded.