TrueBlue News Release (09/30/13)

TrueBlue Inc. has announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of the Work Connection, a light industrial staffing provider with 37 branches located predominantly in the Midwest. TrueBlue chief executive officer Steve Cooper said that TWC’s operations will be merged with those of Spartan Staffing during the fourth quarter of this year to expand TrueBlue’s light industrial service line. Cooper expects long-term growth for the blue-collar staffing industry and said TrueBlue will continue to expand through a combination of acquisitions and growth from existing service lines.