TeleTech Wins Top Marketing Honors

ENGLEWOOD, CO, May 01, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- TeleTech Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEC), one of the largest and most geographically diverse global providers of business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, today announced that it has received three 2008 Gold Key Awards from the Colorado Chapter of the Business Marketing Association (BMA). The awards banquet will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2008, at the Cable Center at the University of Denver.

TeleTech will be presented with a gold medal for its branding and event collateral for the 2006 Fall Client Advisory Board Meeting and a silver medal for its branding and event collateral for the 2007 Spring Client Advisory Board Meeting. TeleTech will also be receiving a third medal for Best in Production overall.

"We are honored to have been recognized for our client-based event marketing," said Greg Hopkins, executive vice president of global sales and marketing at TeleTech. "These awards represent our commitment to excellence in business-to-business [B2B] marketing and encompass measurable results, creativity, and overall marketing strategy."

Since 2001, TeleTech's design services team has placed with high marks in BMA's annual competition. It has been recognized as the first organization to receive two Best in Shows sequentially in 2004 and 2005 and the only company in the history of the Colorado BMA chapter to receive eight gold awards at a single ceremony.

This year, more than 130 entries were received in 47 categories from Colorado's top B2B businesses and agencies. Entries were reviewed by a panel of six independent judges from across the country representing agencies, corporate marketing, and academia.

The Gold Key Awards is recognized as Colorado's most prestigious competition dedicated solely to business-to-business marketing communications.

"We have worked hard over the years to make the BMA Gold Key Awards one of the most coveted by marketers in the state," says Marilee Yorchak, executive director, Colorado Business Marketing Association. "We'd like to extend our congratulations to the winners of this year's awards program. It is always fiercely competitive and those that receive awards are truly the best of the best."

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 300 business process outsourcing programs serving more than 100 global clients in the automotive, communications and media, financial services, government, healthcare, retail, technology and travel and leisure industries. Our integrated global solutions are provided by 59,000 employees utilizing 38,400 workstations across 90 delivery centers in 18 countries.

ABOUT THE BUSINESS MARKETING ASSOCIATION

The Business Marketing Association (BMA) is a national organization that unites professionals who specialize in business-to-business marketing and communications. The Colorado Chapter has more than 350 members and has been named the "Chapter of the Year" thirteen of the past fifteen years. The BMA Gold Key Awards is Colorado's most prestigious competition dedicated solely to business-to-business marketing. For more information, please contact Marilee Yorchak at 303.607.9957 or email info@bmacolorado.org.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which can be identified by words such as "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate" or comparable words. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. All statements not based on historical fact are forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, include but are not limited to the following: all reported results are presented without taking into account any adjustments that may be required in connection with the ongoing review of TeleTech's accounting for equity-based compensation plans and should be considered preliminary until TeleTech files its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007; the effect of TeleTech's failure to timely file all of its required reports under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, including the potential of a default under its credit facility; our ability to meet the requirements of the NASDAQ Stock Market for continued listing of our shares; any future decisions by the NASDAQ Stock Market regarding continued listing of TeleTech's common shares; potential claims and proceedings relating to such matters, 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; our belief that we are continuing to see strong demand for our services; the ability to close and ramp new business opportunities that are currently being pursued or that are in the final stages with existing and/or potential clients in order to achieve our Business Outlook; estimated revenue from new, renewed, and expanded client business as volumes may not materialize as forecasted or be sufficient to achieve our Business Outlook; the possibility of lower revenue or price pressure from our clients experiencing a business downturn or merger in their business; greater than anticipated competition in the BPO and customer management markets, causing adverse pricing and more stringent contractual terms; risks associated with losing or not renewing client relationships, particularly large client agreements, or early termination of a client agreement; the risk of losing clients due to consolidation in the industries we serve; consumers' concerns or adverse publicity regarding our clients' products; our ability to execute our growth plans, including sales of new services; our ability to achieve our year-end 2008 and 2009 financial goals, including those set forth in our Business Outlook; risks associated with attracting and retaining cost-effective labor at our delivery centers; the possibility of additional asset impairments and restructuring charges; risks associated with changes in foreign currency exchange rates; our ability to find cost effective delivery locations, obtain favorable lease terms, and build or retrofit facilities in a timely and economic manner; risks associated with business interruption due to weather, pandemic or terrorist-related events; economic or political changes affecting the countries in which we operate; achieving continued profit improvement in our International BPO operations; changes in accounting policies and practices promulgated by standard setting bodies; and new legislation or government regulation that impacts the BPO and customer management industry.

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