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TeleTech Expands Relationship With Leading Business Services Provider Partnership Includes Expansion in the Philippines ENGLEWOOD, CO--(MARKET WIRE)--Jul 24, 2008 -- TeleTech
Holdings, Inc. (TTEC - News), one of the largest and
most
geographically diverse global providers of business process outsourcing
(BPO)
solutions, today announced that a top business services
provider has
significantly expanded its strategic agreement with TeleTech. The client, a Fortune 500 business services provider, first began working with TeleTech in 2002 and the business has continued to grow since that time. The new work under the expanded agreement increases the number of BPO workstations currently supported by TeleTech in the Philippines. TeleTech will continue its current multilingual technical support for DSL consumers using its global best practices across multiple near-shore and offshore sites. "We value our longstanding relationship with this business services client and remain committed to its continued success with its broadband accounts," said Kenneth Tuchman, chairman and chief executive officer at TeleTech. "We are proud that the client recognizes our commitment to BPO best practices and this expanded scope of services is a testament to that commitment." TeleTech, a leader in serving the business services industry, brings together advanced technologies and human resources to deliver superior return on investment to clients through high-value, innovative solutions. TeleTech assists clients with agility and growth by transforming their infrastructure and business processes to optimize existing assets, lower costs, and provide new revenue streams. ABOUT TELETECH TeleTech is one of the largest and most geographically diverse global providers of business process outsourcing solutions. We have a 26-year history of designing, implementing, and managing critical business processes for Global 1000 companies to help them improve their customers' experience, expand their strategic capabilities, and increase their operating efficiencies. By delivering a high-quality customer experience through the effective integration of customer-facing front-office processes with internal back-office processes, we enable our clients to better serve, grow, and retain their customer base. We use Six Sigma-based quality methods continually to design, implement, and enhance the business processes we deliver to our clients and we also apply this methodology to our own internal operations. We have developed deep domain expertise and support approximately 250 business process outsourcing programs serving more than 100 global clients in the automotive, communications, financial services, government, healthcare, retail, technology and travel and leisure industries. Our integrated global solutions are provided by more than 50,000 employees utilizing 38,000 workstations across 88 Delivery Centers in 18 countries. FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS Statements in this press release that relate to future results and events (including statements about the expanded agreement, increased number of work stations and future financial performance) are forward-looking statements based on TeleTech's current expectations. Actual results and events in future periods could differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements because of a number of risks and uncertainties including: general economic, business and industry conditions; the loss of business or lower volumes from significant clients; delivery center utilization and labor rates; the pace at which we are able to ramp new business; the effect of TeleTech's failure to timely file all of its required reports under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and its restatement of previously issued financial statements, including shareholder litigation and action by the SEC and/or other governmental agencies; negative tax or other implications for TeleTech resulting from any accounting adjustments or other factors; unexpected regulatory changes, tax laws, and data privacy measures; data privacy issues; our ability to accurately predict geographic sales mix and seasonal sales trends; information technology and/or delivery center interruptions; issues or matters that may arise from governmental and/or administrative agency investigations; our ability to successfully remediate identified internal control deficiencies; litigation and governmental investigations or proceedings arising out of or related to accounting and financial reporting matters; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates along with our ability to effectively hedge exposure to changes in foreign currency exchange and/or interest rates; the ability to attract, retain and motivate key personnel; and political instability, the effect of armed hostilities, terrorism and natural disasters. A detailed discussion of these and other factors that could affect our results is included in TeleTech's SEC filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007. Contact: Investor Contact:
Karen Breen
Investor Relations
303-397-8592
Media Contact:
KC Higgins
Public Relations
303-434-8163
Source: TeleTech Holdings
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