Corporate Resource Services Acquires Cameo Employment Services, Inc.

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- (Business Wire) – October 18,2013-- Corporate Resource Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRRS), a diversified technology, staffing, recruiting and consulting services firm,  today announced that has closed on the acquisition of Cameo Employment Services in Ontario, California.

“We are very excited to acquire Cameo Employment Services and add to our already robust presence in the Southern California marketplace,” said John Messina, Chief Executive Officer of CRS. “This acquisition is a perfect fit for us and we will immediately see incremental revenues and profitability from the addition of Cameo’s operations.”

“CRS will realize increased gross margins with this acquisition and Cameo’s base of business generates higher average bill rates than our traditional business,” said Frank Vaccaro, President of Sales at Corporate Resource Services.  “We will continue to support the growth of Cameo’s customer base throughout the Southern California marketplace. Through this acquisition, CRS continues to demonstrate our ability to integrate higher margin business into our existing regions and leverage new service offerings to other clients throughout California.”

About Corporate Resource Services, Inc.: 

Corporate Resource Services, Inc. provides cloud-based enterprise applications and hosting services to PEO and staffing companies, as well as diversified staffing, recruiting, and consulting services.  The Company offers trained employees in the areas of Insurance, Information Technology, Accounting, Legal, Engineering, Science, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Creative Services, Hospitality, Retail, General Business and Light Industrial work. The company’s blended staffing solutions are tailored to our customers’ needs and can include customized employee pre-training and testing, on-site facilities management, vendor management, risk assessment and management, market analyses and productivity/occupational engineering studies.

The Company’s ability to deliver broad-based solutions provides its customers a “one stop shop” to fulfill their staffing needs from professional services and consulting to clerical and light industrial positions. Depending on the size and complexity of an assignment, Corporate Resource Services can create an on-site facility for recruiting, training and administration at the customers’ location. Company recruiters have the latest state of the art recruiting resources available to help customers secure the best candidates in today's ever-changing marketplace. CRS’s national network of recruiters has staffing experts that get excellent results by focusing within their areas of expertise.

The Company operates 231 staffing and on-site facilities in 42 states and the District of Columbia and it offers its services to a wide variety of clients in many industries, ranging from sole proprietorships to Fortune 1000 companies. To learn more, visit http://www.crsco.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Such statements are based on assumptions and expectations which may not be

realized and are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which cannot be predicted with accuracy and some of which might not even be anticipated. Future events and actual results, financial and otherwise, may differ from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. A number of these risks and other factors that might cause differences, some of which could be material, along with additional discussion of forward-looking statements, are set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Corporate Resource Services, Inc.

Michael J. Golde

Chief Financial Officer

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