Taleo Experiences Growth in Asia Pacific
Significant new Asia Pacific clients sign with Taleo in first half of 2007
SOURCE Taleo Corporation -0- 09/24/2007 /CONTACT: media, Jason Davis of Horn Group, +1-646-688-0588, jdavis@horngroup.com for Taleo; or investor relations, Carolyn Bass of Market Street Partners, +1-415-445-3232, carolyn@marketstreetpartners.com for Taleo; or Asia media, Beverly Goh of Taleo, +65-6323-4007, bgoh@taleo.com; or Australia-New Zealand media, Frances Dwyer of IMPACT Communications, +61-2-9519-5411, frances@impactcommunications.com.au/ /Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060518/SFTU143LOGO AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com/ /Web site: http://www.taleo.com / (TLEO)DUBLIN, Calif. and SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Taleo Corporation (Nasdaq: TLEO), the leading provider of on demand recruitment and talent management solutions, has announced its Asia Pacific business has experienced significant growth and will be celebrating this success with its clients at its annual customer conference and regional user group forums, on the 25-26 September in Sydney, Australia, and 28 September in Singapore.
Taleo has been based in the Asia-Pacific region for five years, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore. It has over 70 locally-contracted clients in the Asia Pacific region, including large corporate and small to medium-sized businesses.
A sample of clients from Asia Pacific that have signed with Taleo recently include Telstra, Hutchison Telecommunications Australia (3 Mobile), and Taranaki District Health Board. These new clients join existing Taleo Asia Pacific clients such as Westpac, Telecom New Zealand, ANZ Bank, Lion Nathan, Woolworths, Sydney Airport Corporation, Sigma Pharmaceuticals, Omni Industries Holdings, and the InterContinental Hotels Group.
"Taleo has experienced great momentum in Asia Pacific during the first half of 2007, with a number of significant wins and the expansion of our existing partnerships with long-term clients," says Taleo international senior vice president, Neil Hudspith.
"The competition for talent is particularly intense in Asia Pacific. Organisations in the region are investing in recruitment and talent management systems to gain a competitive edge in attracting, recruiting and retaining talent," says Hudspith.
Taleo's on-demand solution powers organisations' recruitment and talent management processes. Taleo allows organisations to build a single talent pool holding all candidate and employee information in a central database, reducing the time and money spent on recruitment and improving the quality of hires into the organisation.
Globally, Taleo has over 1200 clients that use the solution throughout the world, including those based in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Thirty-three of the Fortune 100 companies use Taleo.
About Taleo
Taleo (Nasdaq: TLEO) is the leader in on demand, web-based talent management solutions that empower organizations of all sizes, around the world to assess, acquire, develop and align their workforce for improved business performance. More than 1,200 organizations use Taleo, including 33 of the Fortune 100, for talent acquisition and performance management, with over 1,080,000 users processing 66 million candidates from over 100 countries. Requiring no capital investment, Taleo's software as a service and on demand delivery offers 99.9% availability.
Forward-looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the demand for Taleo's solutions, results from use of Taleo's solutions and general business conditions. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based upon Taleo's historical performance and its current plans, estimates and expectations and are not a representation that such plans, estimates, or expectations will be achieved. These forward-looking statements represent Taleo's expectations as of the date of this press announcement. Subsequent events may cause these expectations to change, and Taleo disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking statements in the future. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. Further information on potential factors that could affect actual results is included in Item 1A of Taleo's Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on March 16, 2007, in Item 1A of Taleo's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as filed with the SEC on August 9, 2007, and in other reports filed by Taleo with the SEC.
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