Innovative C-Store Company Fuels Its Hiring Processes with Peoplematter Hire?

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- DEC. 13, 2010 -- Ricker Oil Company, Inc., a Midwestern company providing high-quality fuels, clean convenience stores, and marketing/supply services, announced that it will implement PeopleMatter Hire(tm) in its 50 Ricker's convenience store (c-store) locations to help find, hire and manage its workforces. Ricker's will deploy the PeopleMatter talent management system to automate and streamline its hiring and onboarding tasks, such as applicant tracking, background checks, hiring assessments and onboarding paperwork.

Ricker's has valued a strong commitment to the community, a sense of pride to its customers, and a long history of corporate trust since the company was founded in 1979. Ricker's chose PeopleMatter as its HR technology provider because of their shared passion for people and innovative technology that can motivate and engage a tech-savvy workforce. PeopleMatter Hire combines these values in a talent management solution that also consolidates and automates all hiring tools into one, easy-to-use system. Hire's simple, clean user interface and ability to translate into multiple languages ensures high internal adoption and a greater return on investment.

Ricker's is also a pioneer in the c-store industry for its social media and mobile apps success. Ricker's appreciates the PeopleMatter product ecosystem's seamless integration with social media tools and applications that will keep its workforce motivated and engaged as the company expands.

"PeopleMatter Hire reinforces our mission to provide a top-quality customer experience in our stores," said Quinn Ricker, president of Ricker Oil Company. "With more than 600 employees, we need a system that can keep up with all of the HR tasks our managers deal with daily, and one that can find employees who match our business values to keep turnover down. PeopleMatter Hire is that system."

"Our automated tools help simplify and streamline complicated HR tasks so managers can focus on engaging their workforce and providing excellent customer service," said Nate DaPore, PeopleMatter president and chief executive officer. "PeopleMatter Hire quickly finds outstanding talent that will further the Ricker brand and build their organization. We are proud to provide our innovative HR technology to one of the most progressive c-store operators in the country"

PeopleMatter continues to rapidly develop and launch products to transform talent management in the service industry, with plans to launch learning and scheduling modules next as part of the PeopleMatter product ecosystem. The product portfolio offered by PeopleMatter uniquely merges social media and talent management for leading service providers in the restaurant, c-store, hospitality and retail verticals.

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**About PeopleMatter **PeopleMatter is a talent management solution for the service industry. We help companies like restaurants and C-Stores hire dependable employees and other service-industry employers, ignite their passion and inspire enduring loyalty by providing a comprehensive suite of HR tools including hiring, learning, scheduling, performance management, rewards and recognition and workplace social media collaboration. Our mission is to transform the workplace by providing managers and employees with tools that catalyze the innate human drive to make a difference---because happy, engaged employees and managers lead to exemplary customer service. PeopleMatter. _The name says it all. _PeopleMatter is headquartered in Charleston, S.C., and on the Web at www.peoplematter.com.

**About Ricker Oil **Founded in 1979, Ricker Oil is a family-owned company based in Anderson, Indiana. It owns and operates 50 convenience stores in Indiana, as well as a petroleum dealership and other enterprises. For more information on Ricker Oil, please visit http://www.rickers.net.

PeopleMatter Media Contact: Liz Wagnon 843.300.3474 media@peoplematter.com

Ricker Oil Company Media Contact: Jonathan Bausman 765.643.3016 jbausman@rickers.net