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Atterro Human Capital Group Awarded Three-Year Contract with Toshiba International Corporation


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MINNEAPOLIS--March 7, 2011: Atterro Human Capital Group, national provider of diversified human capital services, has announced the award of a three-year agreement to provide talent acquisition and contingent workforce management services to Toshiba International Corporation.

“By leveraging Atterro's talent acquisition programs, we can focus on delivering an excellent experience to our employees and great products to our customers.”

Toshiba International Corporation will expand manufacturing capacity at its plant in Houston, Texas for production of high-performance drive motors for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs). Toshiba estimates that the global market for electric vehicle motors will grow from $5 billion in fiscal year 2009 to $100 billion in fiscal 2020.

"As our workforce resource partner, Atterro will play a critical role in supporting and enabling us to expand our workforce and build upon our intellectual capital to meet the demands of our modernized manufacturing environment," said Chad Reed, Vice President of Human Resources at Toshiba International. "By leveraging Atterro's talent acquisition programs, we can focus on delivering an excellent experience to our employees and great products to our customers."

Expanding on the partnership, Clay Morel, Atterro Chief Executive Officer added, "We are pleased and proud to have been awarded this three-year agreement for two reasons. First, our association with Toshiba International exemplifies the confidence their leadership group has placed on us, which we plan to uphold. Secondly, our services are becoming an increasingly important part of the economy. Being able to play a role in the production of technologies that promote alternative energies is extremely exciting to Atterro. We hope to continue to provide meaningful services to organizations that are in support of programs that serve the environment in the most efficient ways imaginable."

About the Atterro Human Capital Group

Founded in 1982, Atterro Human Capital Group is a national provider of Talent Acquisition, Component and Contingent Workforce smartSourcing, interim staffing, executive search services in the disciplines of creative and marketing, finance and accounting, administrative and light industrial and engineering and information technology disciplines.