Milestones
Milestones 2010
February
Vodafone Germany and freenet GmbH become telegate’s strategic partners for Local search: freenet develops and implements a fully-integrated and map-based Local search offer for the stationary and mobile Internet, powered by www.11880.com. The DA 11 88 0 is available for Vodafone customers on all mobile devices in the future and the mobile Local search App “klickTel” is preinstalled on may smartphones sold by Vodafone.
March
Cooperation with Nokia: the address and contact data of the product brand www.11880.com are integrated in the Ovi maps in the future and thus are available on both Nokia smartphones and on the Internet under www.maps.ovi.com for the Local search of Nokia’s map and navigation App.
Leading Local search offer on the German web: according to the IVW (Information Association for the Ascertainment of Distribution of Advertising Media, registered association), the Local search online platforms www.11880.com and www.klicktel.de, which are bundled to “telegate MEDIA”, reached more than 10 m visits for the first time.Announcement of the business figures 2008: sales performance and trend of profitabiliy above expectations
June
Focus on the German market: telegate AG sold its wholly-owned Italian subsidiary telegate Italia S. r. I., Turin, as well as the two Call Centers operated in Italy.
Unchanged dividend: in spite of a slightly declining profit performance, telegate AG’s Shareholders’ Meeting resolves to
distribute an unchanged dividend of EUR 0.70 for the annual year 2009.
July
Moving image marketing: telegate MEDIA launches video advertising for SMBs. Business customers can also book the production and marketing of a 30-second company clip for their “Media Eintrag Premium”.
August
Further expansion of the digital advertising portfolio: the company offers the creation and maintenance of professional web pages. The product “firmenWEBSITE” is directed towards SMBs which do not have an own Internet presence so far or want to update their existing web page.
September
The Federal Network Agency is “capping” data costs: Deutsche Telekom AG suffers another defeat in the data cost dispute. The Federal Network Agency comes to a leading decision according to which the costs for permitting the use of subscriber data demanded by Deutsche Telekom from all market participants may only amount to no more than EUR 1.65 m p.a. in the future. telegate considers its position in the long-term dispute on excessive data costs further strengthened.
October
More efficiency in the Call Centers: the company announces to merge the Call Center in Wismar with the two locations in Rostock and Guestrow. The reason is overcapacities in terms of technology and premises.
SMBs in Germany did not arrive yet in the digital advertising world of the 21st century: this is proved by the psyma-GfK study on behalf of telegate AG “Mittelstand und Werbung”. Thus, German SMBs invest 75 % of their advertising budget in traditional print media - whereas the majority of German consumers search for local information on regional companies on the Internet today. There is a significant need to catch up even with regard to online basics: approx. 40 % of the SMBs questioned do not have a company website. Today, SMBs are still far from the subjects “Social media” and “Facebook marketing”.
Sale of the development center: Within the scope of a transfer of business, telegate’s development center with a seat in Hanover passes into the ownership of Logiball GmbH, a specialist for
November
New web 2.0 function “Wer kennt die Besten?”: users may submit ratings and search cross-trade for the provider with the best rating on the online portals www.11880.com and www.klicktel.de as well as the mobile Apps.
December
Share repurchase program: with this program, the company repurchases approx. 2.1 m company-owned shares and 10 % of the capital stock respectively at a price of EUR 7.00 per share and thus distributes an excessive liquidity to the
shareholders.
