gr8 People Momentum Continues After Record First H

PHILADELPHIA, July 18, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- gr8  People Inc., a leader in enterprise recruiting software for Corporate and Recruiting Process Outsourcing (RPO) Enterprises, today announced continued momentum for first-half of 2017. The company’s Q1 '17 sales were more than 450 percent of Q1 '16 sales, and the first half continues upon this strong momentum.

"Our team delivered a record first half of 2017 with strong customer momentum, implementations and strong competitive win rates," said Jack Coapman, CSO of gr8 People. "The results were well balanced across our key initiatives as we saw consistent strength in targeted industries and geographies. Our record-setting performance is a direct reflection of the success our customers have with our one-experience talent platform. I am fortunate to work with such a talented, dedicated team, committed to building on our success and vision."

Key First-Half Highlights

• The accelerated global adoption of gr8 People CRM and Recruitment Marketing, with over 90 new customer implementations from January to June. -- United States – 40 -- EMEA – 32 -- APAC – 22
• Strong global demand prompted gr8 People’s expansion of facilities and a datacenter in Europe. Customers include many Fortune 500 companies with top global brands such as SC Johnson, Informatica, Polaris, and Randstad.
• 2 Releases: Winter17 and Spring17. Winter17 release helped customers put recruiting on auto-pilot with enhanced automation, recruiting robotics and situational communications automating drip campaigns, lifecycle emails and more. Spring17 release concentrated on the end-user experience, with increased usability, easier access to valuable information, with enhanced personalization and self-service capabilities to foster a more self-sufficient and productive work environment.
• New enterprise customers such as Talbots, Polaris, AMN Healthcare, SC Johnson, NBC Universal, Ratner, Argus, Hair Cuttery, and more.

With competition for talent at an all-time high, hiring organizations are embracing gr8 People’s One-Experience Talent Platform as they look for more effective ways to source, engage, hire and collaborate seamlessly. The elasticity of the platform continues to receive high praise from industry analysts, whether customers select individual components or leverage the entire platform. gr8 People’s One-Experience model provides customers all the major components from one provider (CRM, Recruitment Marketing and ATS), blurring the boundaries and barriers to create openings for talent organizations and their leaders to reinvent and reimagine how to compete and win the talent organizations needs to succeed.

"gr8 People continues to report strong financial results and execute on our strategic objectives for 2017. In addition to strong organic growth, investments made in the past twelve months have added to the record results being reported," said Diane Smith, Chief Executive Officer of gr8 People. "It’s an exciting time; we are proud of our first-half growth and owe our success to our customers, who have placed their trust in our capabilities. Every day we work as a team to deliver world-class results that exceed expectations. In every aspect of our business, we strive to always find the best, true and right way to always be a step ahead and give the unfair advantage companies demand to compete for talent around the world."

About gr8 People gr8 People is 100 percent purpose-built to deliver the unfair advantage companies demand to compete for talent around the world. It’s the enterprise Platform that brings CRM, recruitment marketing, hiring and on-boarding together; connecting entire talent ecosystems into one-experience of performance, agility and results. It’s everything talent professionals need to Recruit gr8. Worldwide. To learn more, visit  www.gr8people.com . 

Alex Fricke africke@gr8people.com 215-693-1122