Дамочка и Баннербанк

RAMBLER MEDIA TO BUY 51% OF RUSSIAN SOCIAL NETWORK INTERNET COMPANY DAMOCHKA.RU AND 51% OF BANNERBANK
Rambler Media Limited (“Rambler Media” or “the Company”), a leading integrated media company providing services to the global Russian-speaking community, has entered into a preliminary agreement with eHouse Holding (“eHouse”), a leader in e-commerce in Russia, to acquire two businesses from eHouse, Damochka.ru and BannerBank. Rambler Media and eHouse will form a new holding company of which Rambler Media will own 51% and eHouse will own the remaining 49%. Rambler Media retains the option to acquire the remaining 49% from eHouse.
Damochka.ru is a leading Russian language, social network, and personal ads website. Damochka.ru currently has more than 1.7 million registered users, of whom over 700,000 are active users.
BannerBank operates a Virtual Banner Network (VBN), one of Russia’s most sophisticated banner exchange networks, which optimises online advertising campaigns and provides detailed information about the impact of banner advertising. It generates approximately 130 million banner shows per day.
Irina Gofman, CEO of Rambler Media, commented: “Through making these acquisitions of Damochka.ru and BannerBank, Rambler will continue to demonstrate its focus on internet and deliver on its strategy to expand the range of premium value-added community services for its 23 million online users. Social networking is proving very popular in Russia and reinforces Rambler’s position as the number one multiservice internet portal for the Russian community”.