2001-2010
2010
Mars
Proposal to pay the first dividend since Meetic's IPO. The suggested dividend is €1.50 per share.
Mars
Finalisation of the creation of the Joint Venture with Match.com for the development of their activities in Latin America
Février
Announcement of a Joint Venture with Match.com
Janvier
2010 EBITDA margin target of 20 to 25% reaffirmed
Janvier
100,626 Matchmaking subscribers, giving growth of +150% over 12 months
Janvier
Successful integration of Match.com and implementation of synergies
2009
August
The Meetic brand reaches record brand awareness of 94% in France (Source: TNS Sofres)
June
A partnership agreement was signed with MSN
June
The General Shareholders Meeting approved the conditions under which to finance the acquisition of Match.com's European activities and all conditions precedent were removed
January
Management announced the annual objectives for 2009 : an EBITDA margin of 20 to 25%
January
The Group sold its Chinese activities (eFriendsNet)
2008
September
The Meetic sites attracted new record audiences
August
The Group set up VIOO, a subsidiary dedicated to the development of new VIOO and Peexme projects
July
The Group launched Meetic Affinity, a dating site based on psychological compatibilty
January
The Group acquired Neu.de, the second-largest online dating player in Germany
2007
October
The Group acquired FC&Co, publishers of the Cleargay site, the leader on the French online gay dating market
February
The Group launched Meetic version 2.0 in France, deployed in Europe during 2007
January
The Group acquired DatingDirect, Britain's incumbent online dating leader
2006
May
The Group acquired ParPerfeito, the online dating leader in Brazil
February
The Group acquired Lexa.nl, a major online dating player in the Netherlands
January
The Group acquired eFriendsNet, publishers of the largest mobile phone community in China
January
The Group launched the Superlol site in France, subsequently renamed Superlov
2005
December
The Group signed 5 new partnership agreements with European internet players, raising the number of partners to 60
October
Initial Public Offering
October
The Group launched the first version of the Ulteem site
February
The Singles Party became an International event and the first MeeticLive events were organised in Germany, Italy and Spain
2004
September
The Group signed a partnership agreement with Yahoo! and broke into the Asian market: Meetic became Yahoo!'s dating site in 5 Asian countries (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand)
July
The Group launched the second version of the Meetic site
Summer
The Group launched MeeticMobile in Germany with Vodafone and in Spain with Telefonica
June
The Group launched MeeticLive events in France
2003
June
The Group launched MeeticMobile and signed a first partnership agreement with Bouygues Telecom's i-mode ©
Beginning 2003
Meetic branched out into the major European internet markets: Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom
2002
Summer
The Group launched the first European versions of the Meetic site
April
The first version of the meetic.fr site was put online
May
The Group signed a first dating partnership agreement with Free
2001
November
Mr Marc Simoncini created Ilius SAS (publishers of the Meetic site), subsequently renamed Meetic
