Employee Solutions and Performance Resources Sign Agreement

10 November 1999

Employee Solutions Inc. and Performance Resources Inc. Sign Preferred Provider Sales and Marketing Agreement

    PHOENIX--Nov. 10, 1999--Employee Solutions Inc. (ESI) , one of the country's leading professional employer organizations (PEO), announced today that it has signed a 10-year strategic alliance agreement to offer preferred provider PEO and human resource management services to the customers and affiliates of Performance Resources Inc.
    As one of the nation's leading providers of consulting and training services to the automotive services industry, Performance Resources Inc.'s clients include major oil companies, fast lube centers, car washes, tire and auto repair shops, convenience stores, full service gas stations and car dealerships across the country.
    Joseph Rosales, founder and president of Performance Resources Inc. and a board member of the Automotive Oil Change Association, which represents more than 16,000 fast lube operators, was quoted as saying: "We were well aware of the advantages that a PEO could provide for our customers and affiliates. With that in mind, we conducted a detailed survey with several of our customers and our vendor of choice was Employee Solutions.
    "Their commitment to providing excellent customer support and the highest quality products and services made the decision for us. Together, we will make available to our customers a set of services that will shift the burden of managing the human resource function, help reduce their cost of operation, and improve employee retention," Rosales concluded.
    Commented Quentin P. Smith Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer of Employee Solutions Inc.: "This agreement is perfectly in line with our sales and marketing strategy that calls for establishing long-term relationships with organizations that represent and influence decisions of large groups of related businesses."
    For additional information on Performance Resources Inc., access the company's Web site at www.performancepros.com.
    Employee Solutions provides employers, franchisers, associations, and chambers of commerce throughout the United States with comprehensive payroll management; human resources consulting services; benefits design and administration services; administration and compliance with state and federal workplace legislation; and unemployment, disability and workers' compensation insurance, claims and administration. For additional information, access the company's Web site at www.employeesolutions.com.

    Note to Editors: The discussions in this news release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to the ability of the company to sign and manage a substantial number of individual fast oil change accounts, the ability of the company to sign and manage other large national or regional accounts successfully over the long term, and other risks set forth in the company's Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 1998, and its Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1999.