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EUROJOBS and KADRY POLSKIE – a successful combination

On March 22, 2007, the Vienna-based EUROJOBS AG purchased two-thirds of the stock of KADRY POLSKIE, a Polish company specialising in personnel services, which is located in Opole. KADRY POLSKIE was founded in December 2001 and currently employs a workforce of over 400 at nine branches. The previous part owner, Andreas Grudniok, has remained at the company as the operative CEO.

EUROJOBS remains on growth course

The EUROJOBS Group continues to grow steadily. In 2006, sales were raised again by more than 20% to over EUR 75 million. EUROJOBS chairman, Gerhart Zehetner, "This increase in sales, which was based on purely organic growth in Austria, was achieved without acquisitions and derives largely from our international subsidiaries."

The CARE GROUP – a modern response to one of the key challenges of our future

Concentrated, one-stop service performance from an emergency care hotline and household nursing, to operating theatre competence.

For the increasingly important care area, the CARE GROUP marks the beginning of a new era in Austria. The CARE GROUP name unites capable service workers from a diversity of nursing segments to create a universally competent supplier of future-oriented solutions in the care sector. The CARE GROUP has been launched under the auspices of EUROJOBS AG, which has thus integrated its previous activities in the care sector into a modern services network.

HYPO EQUITY takes a stake in the EUROJOBS Group

A financial consortium headed by HYPO EQUITY has taken an interest in the personnel services supplier – extensive expansion planned in Central and Eastern Europe – equity capital partner HANNOVER Finanz Austria makes an exit

(Vienna/Bregenz, January 10, 2007) – An Austrian financial consortium headed by the Bregenz-based private equity company, HYPO EQUITY Management AG, has taken a major holding in the EUROJOBS Group, which is domiciled in Vienna. According to Harald Pöttinger, a member of the HYPO EQUITY Management AG Board, "Our investment is intended to support the above-average growth rate of recent years and intensify expansion in Central and Eastern Europe."

EUROJOBS was founded in 1997 by Gerhart Zehetner, who in 2002 obtained HANNOVER Finanz Austria as an equity partner. Martin Walka, the HANNOVER Finanz Austria CEO, "As a result of our financial cover, during the past five years EUROJOBS has been able to quadruple its sales and become one of the leading suppliers of personnel services in Austria and the entire German-speaking area."

The J’accomo travel agency, which is part of the EUROJOBS Group, regards itself as a supplier of services to companies looking to save time and money during the planning and organisation of their business travel. As CEO Christoph Leitner explains, the name J’accomo derives from a combination of the terms journey/job and accommodation and the company is primarily active on behalf of the roughly 2,700 employees of the EUROJOBS Group and its customers. Moreover, his outline of the agency’s activities clearly shows that it differs somewhat from the norm, "We look for rooms, handle air tickets and offer our know-how with regard to visas and legal questions relating to employment in foreign countries." more

Federal chancellor, Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel congratulates the newly appointed "Kommerzialrat", Gerhart Zehetner.

Gerhart Zehetner's passion for business is clearly expressed by impressive statistics. In just nine years, he has built up an international workforce of 2,700, numbers among the leader figures in the Austrian personnel services sectors and has founded numerous, successful subsidiaries. Nonetheless, in spite of his enormous workload as the EUROJOBS Chairman, Gerhart Zehetner has still managed to devote a good deal of time to the Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce in which he occupies the post of the Chairman of the Commercial and Crafts Section. He has now been awarded the title of "Kommerzialrat" for his services and is one of the youngest recipients of this recognition. No less a personage than the federal chancellor, Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel, came to the presentation ceremony to offer his personal congratulations. In his address, Dr. Schüssel mentioned the fact that an honour like that bestowed upon Gerhart Zehetner is not only the result of business achievement, but also social commitment.

The entire EUROJOBS team concurs with these sentiments and also offers its heartfelt congratulations.

Andreas Schlägel, who was born in Linz and has been active in the personnel services branch since the beginning of the 1990s, has been promoted to the post of regional manager for the CEE states within the EUROJOBS Group.

Schlägel, who has been one of the CEOs at EUROJOBS GmbH Deutschland in Munich since 2001, will be returning to Austria and be based at the new company headquarters in Mohsgasse 1, Vienna.

The range of activities to be undertaken by Andreas Schlägel relates to the further development of the existing markets in Romania and Poland, as well as the opening up of the Czech and Slovak Republics and Hungary. His biggest targets are to capture a regional market, recruit personnel for international appointments and supply EUROJOBS customers with all the company's services and brand products in these countries.

Until a successor is found, Andreas Schlägel will remain responsible for personnel leasing at EUROJOBS GmbH Deutschland.

EUROJOBS News International - Issue 08/2006

From the contents:

- EUROJOBS AG - from zero to hundred
- AERGOS - The Radiopeople Company
- J'accomo's Travels

More information concerning the EUROJOBS-News can be found here.

EUROJOBS News - Issue 08/2006

From the contents:

- Young Business Person of the Year Award 2006 by the Young Economy Upper Austria
- GEOCENT - Healthpool
- The EUROJOBS Academy
- EUROJOBS-Sponsoring
- EUROJOBS Rohrbach - new branch office

More information concerning the EUROJOBS-News can be found here.

Particularly when business is booming, entrepreneurs are well-advised to take a critical look at their performance and portfolio, in order to assess the actual situation and to define the company course internally. The personnel services company, EUROJOBS Austria, undertook precisely such an analysis in the second half of 2006. The results of the survey, which involved contact with 2,532 people, provided clear-cut confirmation of high customer acceptance levels and underlined the consistency of the company’s customer-oriented service quality. The survey was carried out by Call Center e-cc GmbH, and including the final report, took three weeks to complete. Detailed survey results can be found in our press archive.

For about a year, so-called pool services in the nursing sector have been subjected to allegations of moonlighting and fraud with regard to taxation and social security payments. In connection with the current discussion concerning the "care emergency" and "illegal nursing", which has been rumbling on for several weeks, Gerhart Zehetner, the chairman of the branch group in the Chamber of Commerce, has expressed the wish that this topic finally be subject to serious and fair consideration. The complete statement can be found in our press archive.

Award: Young Business Person of the Year 2006

A few days ago, Gerhart Zehetner, the EUROJOBS founder, was awarded the 2006 Upper Austrian Young Business Person of the Year Award in the “Young Business Person as Job Motor" category. Please read more in our press archive.