| January 9, 2001 Hunt-Scanlon Retains Deloitte & Touche as New Auditing Firm Stamford, CT, January 9, 2001 - Hunt-Scanlon Corporation, a leading market research firm and online data provider to the executive recruiting industry, today announced that it has retained the services of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company's new independent auditors. Scott A. Scanlon, chairman and CEO of Hunt-Scanlon, stated: "We are pleased to have selected Deloitte & Touche to provide auditing services as Hunt-Scanlon grows. We feel it is in the interest of our shareholders to have a Big Five professional services firm with the credentials of Deloitte & Touche. The expertise they offer is recognized as among the best in the world." David A. Carver, partner of Deloitte & Touche LLP, commented: "Deloitte & Touche is widely recognized for our ability to provide professional services that can expand along with our clients' growth. We are pleased to be retained by Hunt-Scanlon and we look forward to providing support as they expand their market research and special events business." ABOUT HUNT-SCANLON Hunt-Scanlon Corporation (www.hunt-scanlon.com) is the leading authority on the executive search and online recruiting industries, providing a range of information products and services relating to executive search, staffing, Internet recruiting, human resources and corporate diversity. These include daily real time newswires, 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). Hunt-Scanlon is a widely quoted news source frequently referenced in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Investors Business Daily, Bloomberg Newswires, The Financial Times and Crain's, and has also appeared on the PBS television series "CEO Exchange." Through a separate operating unit, Hunt-Scanlon Advisors, the firm also provides comprehensive market intelligence studies, market trend surveys and forecast indicator reports on the executive search and online recruiting industries to major corporations. The company's flagship recruitment portal for senior executives, hunt-scanlon.com, is a growing online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of recruiting services worldwide. Within this portal, Hunt-Scanlon operates four leading web sites, including executiveselect.com, recruiterlink.com, diversityonline.com and leadersonthemove.com. A third operating unit of Hunt-Scanlon, the Institute for Corporate Diversity, is the leading diversity database and research publisher in the U.S. Hunt-Scanlon acquired the diversity institute in 1999 and now publishes Diversity Monitor, the monthly trade newsletter, as well as Diversity in Corporate America, the largest diversity executive reference guide in the U.S. Contact Information:
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