Get out your Euro calculator. Meetic, with the support of its new shareholder AGF Allianz, is busy strengthening its leadership before its listing on the stock market, planned for 2005.
The French dating site launched in early 2002 by Marc Simoncini will open up to 4 additional countries in the coming weeks: Poland, Ireland, Greece and Portugal. This comes after achieving the same success in 11 European countries, the dating site meetic thus continues to develop with the same resources and the same strategy and will now be present in 15 European countries.
Cécile Moulard, Europe Marketing Manager:
Over the past 3 years Meetic has proved its ability to develop its model both via the web and the mobile, and to form strategic alliances with numerous major European players in these sectors (Free.fr, Virgilio.it, France Telecom (Voila.fr), M6.fr, TF1.fr, Web.de, Lycos Europe, Yahoo Spain and Yahoo Italy, Bluewin.ch, SFR, Vodafone Germany, Bouygues Telecom, Telefonica (i-mode ©), Lastminute Europe, Eurosport Europe, etc). The advertising campaign launched in mid-November reinforces our strategy and enables us to envisage a 2005 which will meet our objectives and our ambitions.
According to Nielsen, Meetic is today the leading dating service in Europe. Over 9 million European singles are already registered and there are almost 20,000 new registrations each day.
Meetic members connect to each other via the interweb, SMS, telephone, Wap and i-mode. A team of some forty moderators of 9 different nationalities manually validates each profile to ensure optimum quality of service. Today Meetic employs almost 80 people.
