EquityStory AG acquires 25 per cent in ARIVA.DE AG
EquityStory AG / Acquisition/Alliance Release of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer / publisher is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EquityStory AG acquires 25 per cent in ARIVA.DE AG EquityStory AG succeeds in entering the market for online advertising Munich – 22 August 2007 EquityStory AG (ISIN: DE0005494165) acquires 25 per cent plus a share in ARIVA.DE AG, Kiel, thus developing the profitable market for online advertising. The parties agreed to keep the purchase price confidential. ARIVA.DE AG operates the well-known ARIVA.DE financial portal. Having registered 22 million page views and 1.8 million unique visits, it ranks fourth among the financial portals that are independent from banks, behind OnVista, Finanztreff and wallstreet:online, according to the IVW coverage measurement. Apart from wallstreet:online, it is the only financial portal featuring an own forum community. The second source of income is the licensing business. ARIVA.DE AG operates complete financial portals on behalf of customers or develops software applications for financial websites. A comprehensive derivatives database, the data of which are used by more than 20 licensees, is particularly successful. The company has 21 employees. The interest enables EquityStory AG to strengthen two divisions of its core business. Firstly, the Distribution & Media division and, secondly, the Websites & Platforms division. Achim Weick, CEO of EquityStory AG, says: 'The market for online advertising in the financial industry is growing significantly. Previously, we could not participate in these proceeds. The interest in ARIVA.DE AG now enables us to also open up this segment for us.' In the 2006 financial year, ARIVA.DE AG generated sales proceeds to the amount of approximately 1.2 million euros, thus earning an annual surplus of 161,000 euros. Such as EquityStory AG, ARIVA.DE AG currently grows by some 40 per cent annually. The purchase price is financed by means of liquid funds of the EquityStory group. Matthias Vogelsang-Weber, CEO of ARIVA.DE AG, says: 'We have been friends with EquityStory AG for many years and are happy to still intensify our cooperation in the future. Together, we will be able to implement even larger projects in order to maintain our company’s growth pace.' Furthermore, in the course of their intensified partnership EquityStory AG will take over the support of some 20 established investor relations customers of ARIVA.DE AG in the prices & charts product field. Thus, the number of attended price and chart clients increases to over 70. About the EquityStory group of companies: The EquityStory AG is the market leader for online investor relations in the German-speaking region, and renders extensive business services in the areas comprising reporting requirements, finance portals, audio and video broadcasts of investor events, online financial reports as well as outsourced websites for over 1,150 listed enterprises at home and abroad. The sphere of reporting requirements is bundled in the subsidiary Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ad-hoc-Publizität mbH (DGAP). The DGAP is an institution for the fulfilment of regulatory publicity for listed companies, and has been the market leader since the formation in 1996. The services encompass ad-hoc notifications, ERS, directors’ dealings, WpÜG [Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act], the new notification obligations in accordance with the Transparency Directive Implementing Law as well as the dispatch of corporate news and press reports. The corporate group employs financial analysts, communications experts and software engineers, and thus has the three core competencies for online investor relations. The EquityStory concern currently has a staff of 42 and realised a turnover in the amount of 4.8 million Euros in 2006. Contact: EquityStory AG Robert Wirth Tel +49(0)89 210298-34 Fax +49(0)89 210298-49 Email robert.wirth@equitystory.de Seitzstraße 23 80538 München www.equitystory.de 22.08.2007 Financial News transmitted by DGAP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: EquityStory AG Seitzstraße 23 80538 München Deutschland Phone: +49(0)89 210298-0 Fax: +49(0)89 210298-49 E-mail: info@equitystory.com Internet: www.equitystory.de ISIN: DE0005494165 WKN: 549416 Indices: Listed: Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart; Entry Standard in Frankfurt End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------