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Embargoed for 07.00 18 March 2003 Parity announces agreement with Chimes Inc. worth approximately £15 million per annum ParityGroup plc ('Parity'), the international IT services group, announces an agreement, subject to contract, with ChimesInc. ('Chimes'), the US provider of workforce procurement and vendor management services to Global 1,000 companies. Chimes currently has over 82,000 users in its installed global client base. Under the agreement, Parity's Resourcing Solutions division will act as the sole recommended provider of vendor management solutions for permanent and temporary staff to Chimes' existing and prospective customers across Europe. The agreement includes the assignment to Parity of Chimes' existing European management contractswhich had a value in 2002 in excess of £15m. The service that Parity will provide through the Chimes system is designed to help companies manage more effectively the procurement of temporaryand permanent staff and to drive costs out of the recruitment supply chain. In addition, Parity will continue to ensure that these companies are compliant with relevant employment legislation across Europe. Commenting on the agreement, Ian Miller, Chief Executive of Parity said: 'This exclusive agreement with Chimes gives us access to the world's leading vendor management system. It fills a gap in our service offering and it gives Chimes a pan-European service partner that can help it grow business quickly in this important market.' Ends Enquiries: Parity Group plc Telephone: 020 7776 0800 Ian Miller, Group Chief Executive Alison Leyshon, Group Finance Director Financial Dynamics Telephone: 020 7831 3113 Giles Sanderson Harriet Keen Notes to the Editor About Parity Group plc Parity Group is a leading provider of IT services, technology staff, training and human capital management solutions operating from over 30 offices across the UK, mainland Europe and the USA. It comprises three key areas:- Business Solutions designs, builds and operates complete systems covering a variety of business functions. Focusing on maximising investment returns, its consultants specialise in interactive commerce, customer relationship management, content management, Web-enablement, security and applications management, providing services across a range of vertical sectors. Resourcing Solutions is a professional services supplier providing permanent and interim technology staff. It advises companies on how to optimise the deployment and utilisation of staff and skills. It also supplies technology and consultancy to maximise the effectiveness with which its customers use external suppliers and internal resources. The division was selected as a finalist in the 'Best International Recruitment Firm' Professional Recruiter Awards 2002. Training delivers bespoke and public scheduled courses in technology, management and business skills at eleven training centres nationwide and at customer sites. Blending traditional training with e-learning to achieve effective learning outcomes, it additionally provides a range of learning services spanning the design and delivery of integrated learning solutions to fully outsourced training and development. Customers across the Group include AT&T, CSFB, HP, IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Shell, and in the UK, Barclaycard, British Aerospace, BT, Royal Mail, Food Standards Agency, Lloyds TSB, National Health Service and ScottishPower. For more information on Parity, visit www.parity.net About Chimes Inc. Chimes, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Computer Horizons Corp. (NASDAQ: CHRZ), provides workforce procurement and vendor management services to Global 1,000 companies. Through scalable, Web-based software, Chimes aggregates the entire hiring cycle to identify, leverage and manage the enterprise-wide spend on human capital. Chimes' portfolio of services addresses contingent hiring (CVM), full-time hiring (CAM), billing adjustment and invoicing (BAI), consolidated time sheet and expense processing (CTE), and resource and portfolio management. Drawing on its network of more than 1400 staffing suppliers to recruit candidates at 30 major corporations across seven industries, Chimes leads the industry in delivering an efficient, cost saving approach to human capital management. For more information on Chimes, please visit www.chimesnet.com.
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