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  20.10.2006

Press release: AdLINK acquires remaining shares in French affiliate network CibleClick

Montabaur, October 20, 2006.
, Montabaur, has raised its shareholding in CibleClick Performances S.A., Paris, from 75% to 100% via its subsidiary affilinet GmbH. The respective contracts with the existing shareholders and founders Frédéric Valette and Olivier Mouillet were signed today. The purchase price amounting to around € 3.6 million will be financed from company funds.

The two founders are leaving the company for personal reasons – following a transition phase – but will continue to support AdLINK in an advisory capacity. The new “Directeur Général” of CibleClick is Vincent Pelillo, who built up the AOL subsidiary Advertising.com in France, Spain and Italy and has been active in the online marketing market for 10 years.

In acquiring the remaining shares, AdLINK exercised a purchase option agreed as part of the 75%-takeover completed at the turn of 2005/2006. “The transaction is our response to the above-average performance of the affiliate marketing sector and the positive development of CibleClick. We can now fully integrate CibleClick into the AdLINK Group’s affiliate marketing business. This will enable CibleClick to utilize our group-wide, European sales resources and our innovative advertising platform even more than before,” says Marc Stilke, Speaker of the Management Board of .


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