At this present stage, shareholders of LeGuide.com (Paris:ALGUI) representing in excess of 50% of the capital declared individually their intent not to tender their shares to the GoAdv offer announced March 20th, 2009.
This refusal to tender is supported by major shareholders including Alto Invest, Fidelity International, Moneta Asset Management, OTC Asset Management, and Seventure, among others.
This shareholders' stance confirms the unfavourable opinion adopted by the Board of Directors regarding the offer of GoAdv.
About LeGuide.com S.A.
The
group LeGuide.com is the n°3 publisher of online shopping guides in
Europe and the n° 1 French independent editor. Strongly successful in
France with its sites www.leguide.com,
www.leguide.net
and www.webmarchand.com,
the company has been developing its business model abroad since 2004 and
is operational in 14 countries: in France, Belgium, Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, Luxemburg, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland,
Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.
As of July 1st 2008,
the group LeGuide.com has integrated the activities of www.dooyoo.com,
a shopping guide present in 4 key markets in European e-commerce
(Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy) and possesses a real
expertise in consumer opinions and ratings. The revenue for the 2008
fiscal year of the group LeGuide.com was 18 M€ and counts as of December
2008 a team of almost 100 employees.
LeGuide.com is qualified as
?Innovative Business? by the OSEO Anvar and is listed on Alternext
on NYSE-Euronext Paris stock exchange (mnemonic code ALGUI, ISIN
code FR0010146092).
More information: www.leguide.com/finance
LeGuide.com
Astrid Canevet +33 (0)1 55 43 36 10
finance@leguide.com
or
Actifin
Ségolène
de Saint Martin +33 (0)1 56 88 11 14
ssaintmartin@actifin.fr