Press Release

CEO Worldwide accelerates its international development and strengthens its local presence and reactivity through an international franchise network

Paris, July 03 2007 - CEO Worldwide, specialised in the temporary and permanent recruitment of international certified top executives, is setting up a franchise network in order to support its growth. Its objective is to bring its customers even more local competence by using relay managers perfectly integrated into the local economic tissue.

CEO Worldwide gives its customers access to a unique database of nearly 5.000 top executive profiles in 149 countries, available for temporary or permanent assignments in less than three weeks. This reactivity results from an innovative IT architecture and a daily updated data base, providing real-time access to all profiles. CEO Worldwide now wants to reinforce its local presence with a franchise network that will offer a proximity interface to both its customers and its candidates.

The franchise program targets entrepreneurs who whish to develop an executive recruitment company specialised in international temporary or permanent assignments. Each franchisee is in charge of a defined territory and contributes to CEO Worldwide's development, identifying new clients and supporting them with their candidate search. CEO Worldwide provides corporate support (training, marketing, advertising,...) and back office support for candidate search and selection as well as administrative, contractual and financial management.

The typical franchisee is a senior manager with a track record in one or several sectors of industry or services in Europe, Asia or North America. He knows the local VCs and Human Resources managers in multinational companies. He speaks fluently English and has a good knowledge of the international working culture. He also has significant experience in recruiting international executive managers through his previous positions.

"To launch a franchise network appears to be the most efficient and fast way to significantly increase our international development. We wish to establish a win - win relationship with our franchisees. Their success will be ours !" says Patrick Mataix, founder of CEO Worldwide.

About CEO Worldwide (www.ceo-worldwide.com)
CEO Worldwide's solution Management on demand creates a new environment, that enables a flexible and reactive cooperation between companies, share holders and top executives in an international context. CEO Worldwide offers top executive recruitment solutions, holding a pool of 5000 iCEO certified top executives available with a minimum of 15 years of professional experience, covering 149 countries in Europe, Asia and the US. The recruitment process takes about three weeks, the executives can be contracted on a permanent or temporary basis.