Handleman Company Named One of '101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For'

Handleman Company Named One of '101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For'

Fourth Consecutive Year

TROY, Mich., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the fourth consecutive year, Handleman Company (NYSE:HDL), http://www.handleman.com/ , has been named one of "Metropolitan Detroit's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" by the Michigan Business & Professional Association (MBPA). The award is given annually to companies that represent the leading edge in human resource practices.

"Metropolitan Detroit's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" celebrates the accomplishments of the area's leading businesses. It sets them apart from the rest as leaders in Human Resource trends and developments. The list of winning businesses include companies in industries as diverse as automotive, staffing, insurance, hospitality, communications and non-profit. Local, national and multi-national companies are all included in the selection process.

"The MBPA takes the awards process very seriously and has worked diligently to create a program that is unbiased, collects quantitative data, is rigorously judged and uses statistical analysis in order to achieve an award that is well respected in the HR field and among other associations," said Jennifer Kluge, Executive Vice President of the MBPA.

Mark Albrecht, Handleman Company's Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Organizational Development said, "Handleman strives to be an employer of choice and is honored to be recognized as a leader in Human Resource practices. This is the fourth consecutive year we have been selected as one of the 101 Best and Brightest Companies. This distinction reaffirms the continuous focus we place on providing a work environment that supports a value driven culture and develops our most important resource, our employees."

About Handleman Company

Handleman Company is a category manager and distributor of prerecorded music to leading retailers in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. As a category manager, the Company manages a broad assortment of titles to optimize sales and inventory productivity in retail stores and also provides direct-to-store shipments, marketing and in-store merchandising.

Source: Handleman Company

CONTACT: Handleman Company Contact: Greg Mize, Vice President, Investor Relations of Handleman Company, +1-248-362-4400, extension 211; or Media Relations Contact: David Bassett of Marx Layne & Company, +1-248-855-6777, extension 132, for Handleman Company

Web site: http://www.handleman.com/

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