| April 10, 2000 Hunt-Scanlon Reports Surge in Web Site Activity in First Quarter Stamford, CT, April 10, 2000 – The e-commerce unit of Hunt-Scanlon Corporation, hunt-scanlon.com, announced today that its Web site impressions soared over 250 percent in the first quarter while the number of hits exceeded the 1.5 million mark according to the latest activity reports supplied by WebTrends Corporation. Key contributors to the site's traffic growth were the recent launch and expansion of two new channels (executiveselect.com and recruiterlink.com) dedicated to providing daily news feeds as well as proprietary software tracking tools for identifying corporate executives and recruiters throughout North America. "The convergence of hunt-scanlon.com's targeted news content and free leadership tracking products with the urgent need for identifying and locating candidates and recruiters has had a significant impact on traffic flow to our recruitment portals," said Dean W. Fichtner, chief marketing officer for Hunt-Scanlon. "I expect this traffic surge to continue as we further refine our e-commerce platform strategy by offering more value-added services to our subscriber base and establishing strategic alliances with preferred partners." Hunt-Scanlon Corporation (www.hunt-scanlon.com) provides a range of information products and services relating to executive search, staffing, online recruiting, human resources and corporate diversity. These include the monthly newsletters, Executive Search Review, Online Recruiting Strategist and Diversity Monitor, as well as directories of executive recruiters and Select Guides to executives in six functional staff areas (top management, human resources, finance, information technology, sales and marketing). Through a separate operating unit, Hunt-Scanlon Advisors, the firm provides comprehensive market intelligence studies, market trend surveys and forecast indicator reports to executive recruiting firms and major corporations worldwide. Hunt-Scanlon also operates five leading websites for corporate executives, including executiveselect.com, recruiterlink.com, boardsearch.com, diversityonline.com and leadersonthemove.com. A second operating unit, the Institute for Corporate Diversity, is the leading diversity database and research publisher in the U.S. Hunt-Scanlon is celebrating its eleventh anniversary this year. Contact Information:
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