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Madrid, January 19, 2005
Jet Multimédia is
buying 100% of the capital of
the Spanish group Mediafusion.
This operation, valuating Mediafusion
for E 37.8 Mln, is made in cash
for E 26.3 Mln and in Jet Multimedia
shares for E 11.5 Mln (corresponding
to the creation of approximatively
715,000 news shares, this creation
being submitted to the vote
of an Extraordinary General
Assembly having place February
21, 2005). To this amount could
be added an earn-out, limited
to E 17 Mln. This strategic
operation is relutive for Jet
Multimedia shareholders.
Mediafusion
is a multi-channel voice, data,
Internet, WAP, SMS & MMS
server. Mediafusion is the leader
on the Spanish market of BtoC
and BtoB value added services
for fixed & mobile telephony.
In 2004, Mediafusion achieved
approximatively E 55 Mln sales
for approximatively E 5 Mln
EBIT. The company, profitable,
as known 100% average growth
since 2000 and employs around
100 people in Madrid.
Mediafusion offers a wide range
of products & services enabling
to cover the needs of its clients
for telecommunication and interactive
online services (voice &
data, fixed & mobile):
Mobilité
: SMS, WAP, MMS Premium
- value added
services for content providers
and publishers
(vote, chat,
quizz, games, promotion, news...)
- mobile personalization
with in-house ans external
content
(logos, ringtones,
pictures, games...)
- marketing solutions
with Push SMS
Fixed telephony:
Audiotex 80x et 902
- BtoB : value
aded services for businesses
(customer service, helpdesk...)
- BtoC : entertainment
interactive telephony services
Mediafusion has many clients:
Press groups (Editorial America
Iberica, Vocento, Grupo Godo,
Grupo Prisa, Grupo Zeta, Metro
News - Grupo MTG, Edipresse
Hymsa, Motorpress Iberica, G+J,
CMXXI, Editorial Planeta, Editorial
Cantabria...) TVs and radios
(Tele 5, Antena 3, Telemadrid,
Axn, Eurosport, Onda Cero, Cope,
Europa FM, Kiss FM, Dance FM,
Onda Joven, Cadena 100, Radio
Popular, Hit Radio...) Internet
companies (AOL, Wanadoo, Tiscali,
Lycos, Msn, ABC, Universia,
Meetic, Vanguardia Digital,
Autopista Online, Ya.Com, Hispavista,
El Correo Digital, Arrakis...)
and companies from various sectors
(Euskatel, British Telecom,
Tele2, Carrefour, Alcampo, The
Phone House, Expert, Altadis,
Accenture, Hôtels Accor,
Colt Telecom, TBWA...)
Manuel Cruz, C.E.O of Jet Multimedia,
emphasizes this operation in
the strategy of Jet Multimedia
for the three next years: "
Jet Multimedia, having already
established a strong position
on the French market, is now
developing worldwide, by focusing
on BtoC and mobile services.
Indeed, there are now 900 million
Internet users and 1.4 billion
mobile users, which everyday
are buying multimedia services
and contents. strategy is very
clear and our action is determined
: Jet Multimedia should be a
key player in Europe for creating,
agregating, deliverign and promoting
mass market online services,
and our group has to develop
worldwide to take advantage
of the huge growth in North
America ans Asia l'Asie. After
this acquisition, Jet Multimedia
is more international and leader
in Europe, more focused on mass
market and mobile business,
a group more profitable with
accelerated growth. In addition,
with E 20 Mln net cash available
after this acquisition and without
any debt, we have the means
of financing our organic growth
and making new external growth
operations when interesting
opportunities will occur. "
For Christophe Cassand, General
Manager of Mediafusion, "
We joined the vision of Jet
Multimedia managers who want,
on the basis of a leading position
in Europe, to build a major
player on the world market for
interactive online services.
Technical, marketing and business
synergies are important between
Mediafusion and Jet Multimédia
: our development model is the
same, based on a multimedia
server involved from the creation
of the content to its delivery
on every network, and especially
mobile telephony and Internet.
This model can be can be reproduced
today in many countries, to
sell interactive services and
multimedia contents to a population
of more than one billion consumers
today, and two billion within
3 years. "
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JET MULTIMÉDIA
- www.jetmultimedia.com
The Online Value
Jet
Multimédia is the European
leader for interactive online
services
For the mass market, Jet Multimedia
creates, aggregates, delivers
and promotes of contents and
mobile WAP, I-mode, SMS and
MMS services, Internet web sites
as well as audiotex services.
Established in France, Spain,
Italy, Canada and Morocco, Jet
Multimedia markets mobile content
(ringtones, logos, videos, Java
games) in more than 45 countries
worldwide. Jet Multimedia is
also partner of the biggest
French, Spanish and Italian
TVs and radios for their interactive
services.
For large companies, administrations
and organizations setting up
strategic online services (E-business,
multi-channel client relationship
management, online administration...)
Jet Multimedia provides value
added hosting services for Internet
(web site hosting, IP security
platform management, e-mail
outsourcing
) advanced
telephony services (virtual
call-centers, multi-channel
contact centers, alerting platforms...)
as well as marketing services
using mobiles (SMS push) and
fax.
Founded in 1989, Jet Multimedia
is listed on Euronext Paris
since 1996 (ISIN FR0000053456,
Code JET, Reuters JTLG.PA, Bloomberg
JET:FP), employs more than 550
people and achieved around E
200 million consolidated revenues
in 2004.
Pierre
COL - Investor Relations
E-mail : pcol@jetmultimedia.com
Tel : (33) 478 171 634
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