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Item 1. BUSINESS

OUR COMPANY

TrueBlue, Inc. (the “company,” “TrueBlue,” “we,” “us” and “our”) began operations in 1989 and is a leading provider of specialized workforce solutions that connect employers and talent. Backed by decades of experience, an extensive national footprint, expansive talent network, deep local market insight, and global recruitment process outsourcing (“RPO”) reach, TrueBlue delivers total workforce solutions helping clients improve quality, streamline operations and meet evolving talent demands.

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

In fiscal 2025, we connected approximately 291,000 people with work and served approximately 53,000 clients. Our operations are managed as three business segments: PeopleReady, PeopleManagement and PeopleSolutions.

PeopleReady

PeopleReady connected approximately 130,000 people with work and served approximately 52,000 clients in fiscal 2025. PeopleReady provides clients with dependable access to qualified associates for their on-demand, contingent general and skilled labor needs to supplement their permanent workforce, across a broad range of industries including construction, transportation, manufacturing, retail, hospitality and energy. Our services range from providing one associate to hundreds, and are generally short-term in nature as we are filling the contingent staffing needs of our clients. Pricing reflects factors such as scope of engagement, role requirements and market conditions, offering flexibility based on workforce needs.

PeopleReady connects our clients with individuals looking for on-demand, general temporary and temp-to-hire positions through our vast network of physical branches across all 50 states in the United States (“U.S.”) and Puerto Rico. Augmenting our branch network, our proprietary mobile app, JobStack®, connects people with on-demand work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Supplemented by artificial intelligence (“AI”), JobStack creates a digital marketplace between our associates and clients, and allows our field resources to focus on sales, recruiting and service delivery efforts.

PeopleReady also connects skilled tradespeople with temporary work across a wide range of trades, including carpentry, electrical, plumbing, welding and energy installation positions through our PeopleReady Skilled Trades and RenewableWorks brands. We utilize our proprietary hiring and workforce management software, Stafftrack®, to recruit and connect skilled tradespeople with client assignments.

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PeopleManagement

PeopleManagement connected approximately 38,000 people with work in fiscal 2025.

PeopleManagement provides and manages contingent associates at clients’ facilities through our Staff Management | SMX (“Staff Management”) and SIMOS Insourcing Solutions (“SIMOS”) branded services throughout the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. Our client engagements are generally multi-location and multi-year, and include scalable recruiting, screening, hiring and management of the contingent workforce. We deploy dedicated management and service teams that work side-by-side with a client’s full-time workforce. Our teams are an integral part of the production and logistics process, and specialize in labor-intensive manufacturing, warehousing and distribution. We offer hourly and productivity-based (cost-per-unit) pricing options for industrial staffing solutions. The productivity-based pricing leverages a strategically engineered on-site solution to incentivize performance improvements in cost, quality and on-time delivery using a fixed price-per-unit approach. Both hourly and productivity-based pricing are impacted by factors such as geography, volume, job type and degree of recruiting difficulty. Our proprietary hiring and workforce management software, Stafftrack, enables us to recruit and connect the best candidates with on-site assignments.

PeopleManagement also provides dedicated and contingent commercial drivers to the transportation and distribution industries through our Centerline Drivers (“Centerline”) brand. Centerline matches drivers to each client’s specific needs, allowing them to improve productivity, control costs, ensure compliance and deliver improved service. Pricing is impacted by factors such as geography, job type and solution. Centerline offers three solutions for clients:

•Flexible Drivers solution: On-demand service helping clients find drivers where and when they need them.

•Driver Management Services solution: Fully outsourced recruitment, management and supervision of drivers for a client.

•Mobile Drivers solution: Short-term relocation of qualified, experienced drivers for special projects or to high-need markets or remote locations where drivers are unavailable.

PeopleSolutions

PeopleSolutions provides clients with services focusing on professional and specialized talent acquisition, as well as workforce management and compliance, and connected approximately 123,000 people with work in fiscal 2025, primarily in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.

PeopleSolutions provides RPO, managed service provider (“MSP”) solutions and talent advisory services through our PeopleScout brand. Our solutions are generally multi-year in duration, highly scalable and provide clients the support they need as their hiring volumes fluctuate. Pricing is typically composed of a fee for each hire and/or talent consulting fees, and is impacted by factors such as geography, volume, job type, degree of recruiting difficulty, and the scope of outsourced recruitment and employer branding services included. Our services are designed to lower client recruiting costs while improving the candidate experience by creating strategies that facilitate our clients’ talent acquisition, development and retention goals. We tailor our services to individual client needs by offering multiple solutions, including the following:

•Full-cycle RPO solution: Provides oversight of the entire talent acquisition strategy, including sourcing, screening, hiring and onboarding of candidates.

•Project RPO solution: Brings a full-scale RPO model to solve a specific client challenge for a defined scope of work and time.

•Recruiter on demand solution: Provides access to a network of highly-skilled talent acquisition experts, giving clients the option to choose the type of support they need with less cost and complexity than ramping up their internal teams.

•Talent advisory solution: Provides employer branding, recruitment marketing, talent insights, candidate assessment services and talent acquisition strategy consulting.

•MSP solution: Manages our clients’ contingent labor programs including vendor selection, performance management, payrolling, compliance monitoring and risk management. As the client’s exclusive MSP, we have dedicated service delivery teams, which work as an integrated partner with our clients to increase the productivity of their contingent workforce program.

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PeopleSolutions also facilitates the placement of skilled healthcare professionals in extended roles with governmental agencies, healthcare systems and educational institutions through our Healthcare Staffing Professionals (“HSP”) brand. HSP streamlines hiring for employers while connecting job seekers with opportunities to grow and advance their careers through the following solutions:

•Short-term temporary solution: Provides clients with immediate coverage of open healthcare professional roles and project-based work.

•Long-term temporary solution: Provides clients with consistent staffing of healthcare professionals for extended, multi-year assignments.

•Permanent placement solution: Provides end-to-end recruitment support for clients hiring full time healthcare professionals.

Assisting our PeopleSolutions recruiting teams is our proprietary technology platform, Affinix®. Affinix is a total talent suite, supported by AI-powered capabilities, blending digital efficiency with human expertise to create personalized experiences for both candidates and recruiters. Affinix rapidly sources a qualified talent pool, and further engages candidates through a seamless digital experience. Affinix provides real-time insights to our clients, helping our PeopleScout dedicated service delivery and HSP recruiting teams efficiently and effectively manage the entire recruitment process.

INDUSTRY AND MARKET DYNAMICS

The staffing industry, which includes our PeopleReady, Staff Management, SIMOS, Centerline and HSP brands, plays a key role in many employers’ talent strategies. Staffing companies supply contingent workforce solutions to ensure the best return on talent investment, optimize talent for business circumstances and reduce the cost and effort of hiring and managing permanent employees. This allows for a rapid response to changes in business conditions through the ability to replace absent employees, fill new positions and convert fixed or permanent labor costs to variable costs. Staffing companies act as intermediaries to match available associates with employer work assignments. Work assignments vary widely in duration, skill level and required experience.

The human resource outsourcing industry, which includes our RPO, MSP and talent advisory services that operate under our PeopleScout brand, involves transitioning various functions handled by internal human resources and labor procurement departments to outside service providers on a permanent or project basis. Human resource departments are faced with increasingly complex operational and regulatory requirements, higher candidate expectations, an expanding talent technology landscape, and pressure to achieve efficiencies, which increase the need to migrate non-core functions to outsourced providers. Through outsourcing, clients are able to more effectively find and engage high-quality talent, leverage talent acquisition technology and scale their talent acquisition function to keep pace with changing business needs.

Our workforce solutions address the following key industry and market trends contributing to anticipated growth:

•Workforce flexibility and scalability: The staffing industry continues to experience dynamic shifts between the permanent and flexible workforce based on competitive and economic pressures to reduce costs, seasonal demands and in response to rapidly changing market conditions. Providers in the human resource outsourcing industry can add significant scalability to a company’s recruiting and hiring efforts, including accommodating seasonal, project or peak hiring needs without sacrificing quality. These providers also help clients increase efficiency and drive lower overhead costs by standardizing processes, reducing time to fill and onboarding the best fit talent into a client’s organization.

•Workforce productivity: Companies are under increasing competitive pressures to improve productivity through workforce solutions that improve performance and enable clients to focus on their core business.

•Leveraging technology to access talent: Automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming talent recruitment and service delivery. The fragmented talent technology ecosystem is becoming more crowded, with significant investments flowing in and new technology coming online. Associates are demanding more flexibility in how, when and where they work, as well as access to contingent work opportunities through mobile technology. As competition for qualified candidates increases, clients and their outsourced service providers are leveraging innovative talent technology to improve the recruiting process and efficiently hire more qualified candidates. Additionally, talent technology continues to elevate the employer brand, build talent communities, create a world-class candidate experience, and facilitate effective recruitment marketing and candidate communication strategies.

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BUSINESS STRATEGY

Our fiscal 2026 business strategy is focused on accelerating business growth to capture market share, while enhancing our long-term profitability. Key elements of this strategy include enhancing our sales function, expansion in high-growth, less cyclical and under-penetrated end markets as well as high-value roles, and accelerating innovation with technology and operational excellence.

•Enhance sales function: We will continue to make strategic investments in structure, technology, partnerships and enterprise alignment to drive scalable growth.

◦Within our on-demand staffing business, we reorganized into a territory-based model and are expanding our sales resources, which will allow us to extend geographic coverage to better capitalize on opportunities in priority markets and accelerate new client acquisition.

◦We have launched an enterprise-wide strategic partnership with a group purchasing organization to unlock new client acquisition opportunities, which is building momentum and enabling us to expand into new sectors.

◦We are fostering stronger partnerships across our teams and technology to enhance enterprise alignment and collaboration to create more cross-selling opportunities, allowing us to better serve client needs and drive growth with our full spectrum of specialized workforce solutions.

•Market expansion: We continuously seek opportunities to expand our market presence in high-growth, less cyclical and under-penetrated end markets, as well as high-value roles.

◦Investments in skills development programs within our contingent staffing businesses will continue to enhance our strong position in attractive skilled trades areas, including energy and commercial driving. We have opportunities to drive revenue expansion with our growing momentum in healthcare across our brands, including from our acquisition of Healthcare Staffing Professionals, Inc. in early 2025.

◦We continue to look for strategic opportunities to expand our geographic presence across our brand portfolio, with a specific focus on our skilled and healthcare staffing businesses.

◦Within our human resource outsourcing business, we continue to leverage our strong brand reputation and innovative technology to expand into higher-skilled placements, including professional search. We are also focused on capturing growth opportunities in attractive end markets such as technology and professional services.

•Technological innovation: We continue to focus on using technology to accelerate revenue growth, reduce the cost of delivering our services, and increase our ability to attract and retain clients, candidates and associates. Our technological innovations improve the access, speed and ease of connecting our clients with high-quality contingent and permanent employee workforce solutions.

◦Our proprietary JobStack mobile apps supplement our PeopleReady branch network by providing a customized experience connecting our clients and associates. The JobStack for Business app allows clients to post jobs, view estimated bill rates, invite the best matched workers to accept a job, view and approve timecards, and rate associates. The JobStack for Work app enables associates to search for jobs by location, view pay rates and job requirements, schedule shifts, and access resources to become qualified for positions beyond their current skill set. We continue to focus on adding features that enhance the user experience and create efficiencies, which will help drive growth and expand our reach.

◦Our proprietary hiring and workforce management software, Stafftrack, provides robust, near real-time analytics that allow clients the ability to adapt to dynamic supply chain and workforce strategies, driving operational improvements and efficiencies. The Stafftrack associate mobile app provides associates the ability to search for a job, view schedules, add shifts, receive real-time notifications, and earn perks through our Stafftrack Rewards program, which incentivizes associates for good attendance and initiating referrals. We continue to expand functionality within Stafftrack to further enhance our client and associate experience.

◦Our Centerline mobile app provides our drivers with access to information on the go including schedules, pay information, job extension requests and access to our Respect the Drive driver engagement program, which tracks milestone accomplishments for hours worked. We continue to expand and build functionality within the mobile app to enhance the overall driver experience.

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◦Our Affinix platform is utilized by our PeopleScout dedicated service delivery teams for sourcing, screening and delivering a permanent workforce to our clients, and by our HSP recruiters for sourcing healthcare professionals for both temporary and direct-hire positions. Affinix creates a consumer-like candidate experience and streamlines the sourcing process. Affinix delivers speed and scalability while leveraging recruitment marketing, predictive analytics and other emerging technology to make the end-to-end process seamless for the candidate. We continue to invest in Affinix to further improve our ability to quickly and efficiently source the most attractive talent at the best price.

COMPETITION

Contingent staffing services

The staffing industry is large and highly fragmented, including large publicly-held companies as well as privately-owned companies on a national, regional and local level. No single company has a dominant share of the industry. We compete primarily with local and regional companies, as well as online and app-based companies providing a variety of flexible workforce solutions. The strongest staffing services competitor in a particular market is a company with established relationships and a track record of meeting the clients’ needs. The most significant competitive factors are price, ability to promptly fill client orders, success in meeting clients’ expectations of recruiting qualified associates, quality of client and associate technology tools, and appropriately addressing client service issues.

Staffing companies compete both to recruit and retain a supply of associates and to attract and retain clients who will utilize these associates. Client demand for contingent staffing services is heavily influenced by the overall strength of the economy and labor market, specific industry and sector performance, and workforce flexibility trends. This creates volatility for the staffing industry based on a range of overall economic conditions. Historically, in periods of economic growth, the number of companies providing contingent workforce solutions has increased due to low barriers to entry, whereas, during recessionary periods, the number of companies has decreased through consolidation, bankruptcies or other events. Competitive forces in any economic environment have historically limited our ability to raise our prices to immediately and fully offset the increased costs of doing business, some of which include increased associate wages, workers’ compensation costs, unemployment insurance and healthcare.

We have a competitive advantage from our service history, our specialized approach in serving the industries of our clients, and our mobile apps, which connect associates with jobs and create virtual marketplaces between our associates and clients. Our JobStack and Stafftrack mobile apps are competitively differentiating our services, expanding our reach into new demographics, and improving our recruiting, sales and service delivery. Our national presence, industry specialization, investment in technology, and proprietary systems and processes, together with specialized programs focused on worker safety, risk management, and legal and regulatory compliance, are key differentiators from many of our competitors.

Human resource outsourcing

Our strongest competitors are companies who specialize in RPO services, as well as companies who offer broader human resource outsourcing solutions, which include RPO services. No single provider dominates the market. Competition also includes companies that choose to perform recruiting in-house. The most significant competitive factors for RPO services are the ability to attract top talent, reduce cost per hire, improve retention, deploy best-in-class technology solutions and improve employer branding. Important factors for success in RPO services include the ability to add significant scalability to a client’s recruiting and hiring efforts, including accommodating seasonal and irregular hiring, the ability to increase efficiency by standardizing processes and facilitating transitions for candidates and employees, and the ability to source the most attractive talent at the best price. Our service delivery solutions, bolstered by our proprietary Affinix technology and creative employer branding services, provide a unique approach to partnerships where clients can mix and match capabilities to create the perfect recruitment ecosystem for their specific needs and budget.

CLIENTS

Our clients range from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies.

During fiscal 2025, we served approximately 53,000 clients in industries including construction, manufacturing and logistics, warehousing and distribution, waste and recycling, energy, transportation, retail, hospitality and general labor. Our ten largest clients accounted for 26.2% of total revenue for fiscal 2025, 22.4% for fiscal 2024 and 20.5% for fiscal 2023. No single client represented more than 10.0% of total company revenue for fiscal 2025, 2024 or 2023.

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CYCLICAL AND SEASONAL NATURE OF OUR BUSINESS

The workforce solutions business has historically been cyclical, often acting as an indicator of both economic downturns and upswings. Clients tend to use a contingent workforce to supplement their existing workforce and generally hire permanent employees when long-term demand is expected to increase. As a consequence, our revenue tends to increase quickly when the economy begins to grow. Conversely, our revenue decreases quickly when the economy begins to weaken and contingent staff positions are eliminated, permanent hiring is frozen and turnover replacement diminishes.

Our business experiences seasonal fluctuations for contingent staffing services. Demand is lower during the first and second quarters, due in part to limitations to outside work during the winter months and slowdown in manufacturing and logistics after the holiday season. Demand for contingent labor peaks during the third quarter for outdoor work and the fourth quarter for manufacturing and logistics, warehousing and distribution, and retail for the holiday season. Our working capital requirements are primarily driven by our associate payroll and client accounts receivable. Since receipts from clients lag payroll to associates, working capital requirements increase substantially in periods of growth.

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

TrueBlue is The People Company®. We specialize in connecting people with work and discovering solutions to our clients’ workforce needs. Our team has extensive experience in a variety of industries, and is highly focused on the safety of our workforce. Human capital management is at the heart of what we do every day. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (“Board”) regularly receives reports directly from management regarding the progress on our key human capital initiatives. These reports inform discussions regarding employee development, retention and engagement. Some of our key human capital management initiatives are discussed below.

Our employees

Our success as a company depends on our ability to attract, develop and retain talented employees. Our employees’ skills, experience and industry knowledge significantly benefit our operations and performance. Our focus in talent acquisition is to enhance the candidate experience, improve efficiency and speed of process as we attract best-in-class talent to support TrueBlue as an employer of choice. We invest in emerging talent through our recruitment strategies, talent management and development programs for critical roles, as well as offering remote and hybrid work models. We frequently develop initiatives that strengthen our commitment to people and talent development.

As of December 28, 2025, we employed approximately 3,500 full-time equivalent (“FTE”) employees. We have approximately 2,600 FTE employees in North America, almost entirely in the U.S., 700 FTE employees in Asia Pacific and 200 FTE employees in Europe. None of our permanent employees are represented by a labor union. We have not experienced work stoppages and believe that our employee relations are in good standing.

Values and ethics

Our commitment to certain core values is what we believe attracts and, more importantly, retains individuals who live these values. Our values are:

•Be Optimistic – We believe there is a solution to every problem. By being innovative and working together, we can find new ways to get results.

•Be Passionate – We believe in what we do, are committed to doing good, and will go above and beyond the call of duty for our clients and workers.

•Be Accountable – We empower our people to take personal responsibility and make an impact.

•Be Respectful – We listen and learn from each other, embrace diverse views and experiences, and know that finding successful solutions comes from working together.

•Be True – We are true to who we are and what our clients need.

In addition to our values, our Code of Conduct & Business Ethics (the “Code”) describes our expectations for each employee, from our commitment to treat each other kindly to our zero tolerance for fraud, bribery or corruption. It reflects who we are and how we work and is based on our core values and the law. The Code applies to officers and all other employees of TrueBlue and its affiliates worldwide and is fully endorsed by the Board. We require all our employees to complete our Code training, as well as courses about sexual harassment awareness and prevention and cybersecurity awareness.

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Culture and belonging

At TrueBlue, we are dedicated to fostering a culture of belonging in which every employee feels valued, supported, and empowered to succeed. We recognize that a workforce that reflects the clients and communities we serve enhances our creativity and innovation, strengthening our position in the marketplace. We create an environment that encourages collaboration and mutual respect by embracing and celebrating our unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. This involves intentionally integrating various perspectives into our decision-making processes, recruitment strategies, and workplace policies and procedures, and prioritizing inclusivity when evaluating performance. Everyone at TrueBlue has a role to play in making sure the culture and belonging thread runs throughout the company. Our Board and executives set the tone and expectation.

Our Employee Resource Groups (“ERGs”) are employee-led groups that create opportunities for employees to collaborate based on shared characteristics or life experiences. These ERGs seek to maximize employee engagement and contribute to our overall business objectives by offering varying perspectives, networking opportunities and increased awareness.

Developing our people

As The People Company, TrueBlue maintains a human-centered focus in everything we do. We are committed to developing talent and have created and implemented an enterprise-wide, comprehensive talent strategy that includes learning and development, performance management, succession planning and leadership development. Foundational to the strategy is the TrueBlue leadership competency model. This competency model is embedded in all aspects of the employee life cycle including talent acquisition, rewards and recognition, and growth and development. When opportunities arise, we review potential internal candidates, guided by the intention to promote from within as often as possible. Career growth and promotions will be increasingly linked to our talent management strategy. By aligning our talent strategy with our strategic initiatives, we ensure that employees have clear pathways and the resources and guidance needed to advance their careers and contribute to the success of TrueBlue.

To retain talented employees, we have a performance management system focused on both the “what” and the “how” of performance as well as development for our employees. The evaluation of performance is directly tied to merit-based increases in compensation, which establishes a stronger pay for performance culture.

At TrueBlue, how we accomplish our work is just as important as what work we accomplish. This philosophy is the cornerstone of our performance management process and system, which consists of four stages and guides our employees and managers through setting goals, cascading goals, ongoing monitoring of progress through regular one-on-one discussions, formal performance discussions and rewards directly connected to performance through the annual merit process. It also focuses on personal development and career growth by setting development goals and aligning the behaviors with company expectations as defined in the leadership competency model. Our leadership competency model outlines and defines expected behaviors for how we work and provides the foundation for successful performance and development.

Health and wellness

We emphasize a commitment to health and wellness as a key component of our comprehensive total rewards approach to attract, motivate and retain top talent. We prioritize offering a range of health and wellness benefits, including wellness initiatives, retirement and financial resources, comprehensive healthcare coverage and resources to support work-life balance. These initiatives are designed to enhance employee well-being, boost productivity and align with our goal of fostering a thriving and engaged workforce to maintain a competitive edge in the industry.

Our associates

Associates are the individuals who make up our contingent workforce to serve the needs of our staffing clients. We attract our pool of associates through our proprietary mobile apps, online resources, extensive internal databases, advertising, job fairs, community-based organizations and various other methods. We identify the skills, knowledge, abilities and personal characteristics of our associates and match their competencies and capabilities to our clients’ requirements. This enables our clients to obtain immediate value by placing a highly productive employee on the job site. We use a variety of proprietary programs and methods for identifying and assessing the skill level of our associates when selecting a particular individual for a specific assignment and retaining those associates for future assignments. We believe that our programs and methods enable us to offer a higher quality of service by increasing productivity, decreasing turnover, reducing absenteeism and improving associate safety.

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Skill development

Associates come to us because of the flexibility we offer to fill a short-term financial need and/or provide longer-term contingent flexible labor opportunities. We act as a bridge to permanent, full-time employment for thousands of associates each year. Associates may be assigned to different jobs and job sites, and their assignments could last for a few hours or extend for several months or years. We provide our associates meaningful work and the opportunity to improve their skills. Through our WorkUp program, we provide skills training and career development for associates. We are expanding the program into select markets where we operate. For example, we have an apprenticeship program registered in a number of states to support skills development and long-term employment in the renewable energy industry, and launched a commercial truck driver training scholarship for female truck drivers. We are considered the legal employer of our associates, and laws regulating the employment relationship are applicable to our operations. We believe we have an overall positive relationship with our associates.

Safety

We are committed to our associates’ safety. We have developed an integrated risk management program that focuses on loss analysis, education and safety improvement programs to reduce the risk of injury to our associates. We implemented an employee incentive compensation program tied to metrics that promote associate safety. We continuously track injuries to our associates at our client job sites across regions, industries and brands to identify trends that allow us to focus our safety resources on injury prevention efforts at higher-risk job sites. Costs associated with accidents are charged to each branch or location, providing additional incentive to promote safety. We distribute educational materials to our clients and provide safety training to all associates. We also perform client site visits to identify and address specific safety risks unique to an industry or job site.

REGULATION

Our services are subject to a variety of complex federal, state and foreign laws and regulations. We continuously monitor legislation and regulatory changes for their potential effect on our business. We invest in technology and process improvements to implement required changes while minimizing the impact on our operating efficiency and effectiveness. Regulatory cost increases are passed through to our clients to the fullest extent possible.

TRADEMARKS

We own several trademarks that are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the European Union Community Trademark Office and numerous individual country trademark offices.

AVAILABLE INFORMATION

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, along with all other reports and amendments filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), are publicly available, free of charge, on our website at www.trueblue.com as soon as reasonably practicable after such reports are filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. The SEC also maintains a website that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC at www.sec.gov. Our Corporate Governance Guidelines, Code of Conduct and Business Ethics and Board Committee Charters are also posted to our website. The information on our website is not part of this or any other report we file with, or furnish to, the SEC.

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