(International, Japan) - We are pleased to announce that early this week, MRI signed a deal with one of Japan’s largest and most successful staffing firms, to join the global MRI network. This is a significant and very positive move for MRI, as to date our global network has not included the Japanese market where world class recruitment is in great demand.
Fujistaff Inc. was founded in 1980. With annual revenues of more than $350 million USD, 1,000 employees, and 37 offices throughout Japan, they are the country’s sixth largest staffing business. They currently have 350,000 temps on their staff headcount.
MRI-Japan KK plans to open 100 offices in the next five years. The company headquarters will be in the heart of Tokyo in impressive premises, which includes a Learning Center for their Japanese MRI Training Class. FujiStaff sales people will attend training Class in Cleveland in February, and will immediately begin selling MRI’s Permanent Placement to their current client base in Japan.


(Cleveland, Ohio) – Amid growing confidence that the economic recovery is accelerating, anticipated new hires in the mid-to-upper level managerial and professional sector of the workforce have taken a significant leap over the same projections for the last half of 2003. These findings come from a recent survey conducted by Management Recruiters International, Inc. (MRI), the world’s largest search and recruitment organization. MRI is a subsidiary CDI Corp. (NYSE:CDI), a leading professional services and outsourcing firm.

Of the 685 executives surveyed, 47.6 percent indicated plans to make additions to their staffs during the first half of 2004, up by 10.4 points from the second half of 2003. Another 45 percent plan to maintain their current staff sizes, down by 10.1 points, and 7.4 percent plan to decrease their staff, down by .5 of a point.

MRI President and CEO Allen Salikof commented, "Clearly many of the companies who were holding off on hiring have begun to let go of their wait-and-see position. Now that businesses are tentatively prepared to make capital investments and factories are seeing an increase in demand, companies are reevaluating their staff levels. After several years of job cutting and unfilled positions, they know they have to start hiring in order to meet that demand.”


(Philadelphia, PA) – As the global economy improves, we are increasingly seeing a pick-up in our business. In the U.S. unemployment rates continue to go down, especially in the managerial/professional sector that constitutes our prime marketplace. In April, unemployment in our sector was down to 2.6 percent, the lowest it has been since October of 2001, and we are seeing similar signs in the U.K.

- Allen Salikof, CEO Management Recruiters International