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CALGARY, Oct. 19, 2011 /CNW/ - Edleun Group, Inc. ("Edleun" or the "Company"), the leading consolidator and developer of Early Learning & Care centres in Canada announced today the appointment of Mr. Ty Durekas to the role of President and Chief Executive Officer and the appointment of Mr. Leslie Wulf to the newly-created role of Vice Chairman, Corporate Development. "We are extremely pleased to attract an individual with such deep and broad experience in the child care industry," said Mr. Colley Clarke, Edleun's Chairman. "Ty's breadth of experience includes operations, new child care centre developments, acquisitions, and corporate employer-sponsored facilities. Moreover, he has been instrumental in providing leadership to high growth companies and delivering increasing profitability." Mr. Durekas joins the Company following 20 years of experience focused on the child care industry in various markets. Ty's career experience makes him ideally suited to help execute Edleun's strategy of pursuing profitable growth by consolidating the fragmented Canadian child care industry and developing new "state of the art" Early Learning and Child Care centres in underserved markets across the country.  Ty began his career as a founder of Children's Creative Learning Centers Inc. in Sunnyvale California ("CCLC").  He was instrumental in driving substantial growth and profitability for CCLC between 1992 and 2007. In 2007, he sold the company to Knowledge Universe, the largest for-profit early childhood education company in the world. Mr. Durekas was subsequently appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer for the Knowledge Universe employer-sponsored child care business unit, whose clients included more than 100 prominent corporations and institutions such as Google, Stanford University, Pixar, BP, Daimler, Oracle, Yahoo, the World Bank, ADP and Electronic Arts. In this position he successfully consolidated four separate, previously acquired companies into a single cohesive operating business. He also assumed a leadership and governance role with Knowledge Learning Corporation, a company with 42,000 employees worldwide and revenues in excess of $1.5 billion. Ty left Knowledge Universe in 2011 with a desire to return to more entrepreneurial business activities - hence, a very complementary and appropriate fit for Edleun. "Ty joining us is a further validation of our vision and the strategy which we began executing just over a year ago," said Mr. Leslie Wulf. "He understands that Edleun is at the early stages of a high growth opportunity that will succeed by increasing both the quality of child care provided to Canadians and by creating new "state of the art" child care centres to address the significant shortage of licensed spaces in this country. The management team and I welcome Ty and are confident that he will be instrumental in helping Edleun continue to grow for the children and families we serve as well as our shareholders and employees." Conference Call Edleun Group Inc. will hold a conference call on Tuesday, October 25(th), 2011 at 4:30 pm Eastern Time, to introduce CEO Ty Durekas. To access the conference call by telephone, dial (647) 427-7450 or 1-888-231-8191. Please connect approximately 10 minutes prior to the beginning of the call. The conference call will be archived for replay until Tuesday, November 1(st), 2011 at midnight. To access the archived conference call, dial (416) 849-0833 or 1-855-859-2056 and enter the reservation number: 20620137 followed by the number sign. A live audio webcast of the conference call will be available at: http://www.newswire.ca/en/webcast/viewEvent.cgi?eventID=3707440. Please connect at least 10 minutes prior to the conference call to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be required to join the webcast. The webcast will be archived at the above website for 90 days. About Edleun Group, Inc. Edleun is the leading provider of high-quality, Early Learning & Care in Canada.  The Company is committed to providing children, families and employers with access to, and choice of, quality early childhood education programs, helping Canadians balance their work and family lives. The Company's objectives include the acquisition and improvement of existing child care centres and development of new child care centres across Canada.  Edleun is also pursuing the development of new "state of the art" Early Learning & Care centres in a number of Alberta and British Columbia residential communities which are currently underserved. FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: Certain statements in this Release which are not historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements or forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws ("forward-looking statements"). Any statements related to Edleun's projected revenues, earnings, growth rates, revenue mix, staffing and resources, and product plans are forward looking statements as are any statements relating to future events, conditions or circumstances. The use of terms such as "believes", "anticipated", "expected", "projected", "targeting", "estimate", "intend" and similar terms are intended to assist in identification of these forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are not promises or guarantees of future performance and involve both known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results, performance, achievements or developments of Edleun to differ materially from the results, performance, achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current plans, estimates, projections, beliefs and opinions. Except as required by law, Edleun does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements should assumptions related to these plans, estimates, projections, beliefs and opinions change. The Company undertakes no obligation, except as required by law, to update publicly or otherwise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, or the above list of factors affecting this information. Many factors could cause the actual results of Edleun to differ materially from the results, performance, achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Edleun Group, Inc. CONTACT: Dale Kearns, Chief Financial Officer, of Edleun Group, Inc. at(403)705-0362, or Nick Hurst of the Equicom Group, Inc. at (403) 218-2835.

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