London, 10th July 2007 - Jobpartners, the European leader in People Relationship Management (PRM), today announced that Messier-Dowty has chosen and deployed its annual review solution, ActivePerformer, across five key countries including the U.K. A SAFRAN group company, Messier-Dowty is the world leader in the design, development, manufacture and support of landing gear systems.

“Messier-Dowty’s ambition is to develop a company culture that maximises our people’s contribution. We want to ensure our people are responsible and that they develop a team spirit and interdependence, while reinforcing involvement and motivation through an effective development review programme,” said Claude Mathieu, Vice-President Human Resources at Messier-Dowty. “During the first phase of the project, we worked to implement a single HR process across all of our sites so there was consistency throughout the company. The second phase involved taking the HR process online so that we could have a consolidated view of the process across the company. Of all the tools available, Jobpartners’ easy-to-use intranet tool represented the best solution.”

Messier-Dowty chose Jobpartners ActivePerformer solution to complete its HR transformation. ActivePerformer manages employee appraisal programmes, from the creation of evaluation questionnaires to sending them out to the appropriate staff for completion. The solution not only enables the monitoring of the review process but also consolidation of the results. With ActivePerformer, employees and managers at Messier-Dowty can share a secured workspace from which employees can set objectives for themselves therefore increasing responsibility and then have them approved by their manager(s).

“In Jobpartners we have found more than a software vendor, we’ve found a real partner. Not only were we impressed with the full functionality of the solution in meeting our requirements, Jobpartners has proved to be completely in-line with our own PR vision. The company believes in one-to-one people relationship management in order to attract, develop and retain the right people and we believe in giving people responsibility and involvement,” continued Joseph Noone, Organisation and People Development Manager at Messier-Dowty.
Following an eight month project, a first objective setting campaign was launched in January 2007 with 1,400 managers in English and French, across seven sites in five countries: Canada, China, France, the U.K. and the U.S. A second review is scheduled between September and October.

“At the end of this first campaign, we have nearly reached our objectives with almost 90% of the reviews completed in the application,” remarked Claude Mathieu. “This achievement is a result of the simple, easy to use look and feel of the application which has driven a fast take-up with our staff.”

he next step of the project will consist of managers creating a dashboard in order to optimise the Personal Development Plan (PDP) deliverables and thus have a view of the team performance progress.

“We are delighted to work with Messier-Dowty on this ambitious project for the deployment of their PDP reviews worldwide,” concluded Frédéric Radier, EVP Product and Presales at Jobpartners. “The positive feedback from this first campaign demonstrates the added value of our solutions in meeting the requirements of large companies: easy to use and quick to deploy, flexible and the ability to integrate heterogeneous environments along with international deployment.”

About Messier-Dowty:

Messier-Dowty, a SAFRAN group company, is the world leader in the design, development, manufacture and support of landing gear systems. Messier-Dowty landing gear is in service on more than 19,500 aircraft making over 35,000 landings every day. The company supplies 33 airframe manufacturers and supports 2000 operators of large commercial aircraft, regional and business aircraft, military aircraft and helicopters. Messier-Dowty is also the majority shareholder of the worldwide MRO network, Messier Services. Messier-Dowty and Messier Services together have 4,300 employees across sites in Europe, North America and Asia, and posted consolidated sales of 738 million euros in 2006.