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TechTeam Global Announces a Three-Year Renewal, $3+ Million Help-Desk Contract with Automotive Financial Services Firm, RouteOne LLC

TechTeam will continue to provide premium Single-Point-of-Contact IT support for RouteOne, a joint venture of DaimlerChrysler Financial Services, Ford Motor Credit Company, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and Toyota Financial Services

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Feb. 23 -- TechTeam Global, Inc., , a global provider of information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing support services, today announced a three-year contract renewal, effective through August 31, 2008, with RouteOne LLC to continue providing single-point-of-contact (SPOC) support services for RouteOne's Credit Application Management System (CAMS). TechTeam provides multilingual, help-desk, and technical support to RouteOne's 100,000+ end users across the U.S. and Canada. The value of the contract is expected to be more than one million dollars per year, based on anticipated call volume.

RouteOne was created as a joint venture by four of the major automotive financial service institutions to provide a method for accelerating and simplifying the consumer automotive financing process for dealers and their financing sources. The result was the development of CAMS, a Web-based system that enables automobile dealers to send credit application information to, and receive credit decisions from, multiple finance sources, including captives, banks, and other financial institutions. CAMS simplifies the credit application process for dealers and their customers across the automotive industry.

"RouteOne's application provides automotive dealers with a fast, easy, and efficient way to submit credit applications to different financing sources. As a start-up, we relied on the expertise of TechTeam to ensure that our network of dealers received the help they needed to use this revolutionary solution," stated Joan Sussman, Director of Operations at RouteOne. "We are excited to continue our relationship, as TechTeam's proven processes deliver economies of scale that enable us to provide cost-effective service to our dealer and finance community."

"RouteOne is an outstanding example of a successful joint venture. We were honored to be selected as RouteOne's first outsourcing partner, and are thrilled to continue the relationship for three more years," stated Larry Granger, Chief Operating Officer of TechTeam Global.

RouteOne was formed in 2002 to create a more streamlined credit application process for automobile dealers and their customers. Jointly owned by DaimlerChrysler Services, Ford Motor Credit Company, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and Toyota Financial Services, RouteOne also provides a single point of access for dealer credit applications to some of the largest auto lenders and banks in North America. RouteOne offers dealers a common platform for submitting credit application information to the multiple finance sources with which they do business. Automotive dealers and their finance sources can exchange credit application and credit decisions in near real-time using RouteOne's web-based network. Additional RouteOne information is available at www.routeone.com.

TechTeam Global, Inc. is a worldwide provider of information technology and business process outsourcing services to Fortune 1000 corporations, multinational companies, product providers, small and mid-sized companies, and government entities. TechTeam's ability to integrate computer services into a flexible, total single-point-of-contact (SPOC) solution is a key element of its success. Partnerships with some of the world's best-in-class corporations provide TechTeam with unique expertise and experience in providing information technology support solutions, including diversified IT outsourcing services, government technology services, IT consulting and systems integration, technical staffing, and learning services. For information about TechTeam Global, Inc. and its outstanding services call (800) 522-4451 or visit www.techteam.com. TechTeam's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "TEAM."

Headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, TechTeam also has locations in Dearborn, Michigan; Davenport, Iowa; Chantilly and Herndon, Virginia; Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Bethesda and Germantown, Maryland; Brussels and Gent, Belgium; Uxbridge, United Kingdom; Cologne, Germany; Gothenburg, Sweden; and Bucharest, Romania.

Safe Harbor Statement

The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical, including statements regarding the Company's expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, or strategies regarding the future, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding, among other things, the growth of the Company's core business, revenue, and earnings performance going forward, management of overhead expenses, productivity, and operating expenses. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words including, but not limited to, "anticipates," "believes," "intends," "estimates," "promises," "expects," "should," "conditioned upon," and similar expressions. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward- looking statements as a result of various factors.

Such factors include, but are not limited to delays in the implementation of the business, changes in RouteOne's business or the requirements thereof, unanticipated problems that arise from the transition from RouteOne's former vendor, difficulties in obtaining RouteOne's knowledge, procedures, security clearance or authorizations, deviation from the anticipated incident volumes, difficulties in providing the service solutions for RouteOne which includes products or services delivered by the Customer, the Company or the Customer's subcontractors or technology vendors. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based on information available to the Company on the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any such forward- looking statement. Prospective investors should also review all aspects of the Company's Reports on Forms 8-K, 10-Q, and 10-K filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including Management's Discussion and Analysis, and the risks described therein from time to time.