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Hi, today we published our figures for the first six months of 2010,
and I think that the figures are very positive.
We’ve seen growth of 20%, and the second quarter was the most profitable in the history of the company.
We’re both happy and proud about these results.
We grew across the board, including our Premium Memberships and our new revenue sources, e-Recruiting and Advertising.
Here we’re seeing growth of 30% in e-Recruiting and as much as 50% in Advertising. These are excellent figures.
On an international level we’re making good progress, and, for the fifth time in a row, we’re seeing accelerating growth in our core international markets - Turkey and Spain.
This is all very good, but what I’m even happier about is the amount of work we’ve done in the last six months to improve the platform, to enhance user benefits and make it more attractive for everyone, including our basic members.
Examples of this include improvements to the news feed, status updates for basic members, and refinement of the search functions.
This is obviously paying off as we’ve received a lot of positive feedback and our figures reflect the work we’ve been doing:
In the second quarter we achieved the highest member growth levels we’ve seen in the last five quarters in German-speaking countries.
This is excellent and something we intend to build on going forwards.
We’ve got a lot more in the pipeline, especially this autumn. We’ll be launching various exciting new things that I expect to do well, and I hope you’re looking forward to them as much as I am.
Stay tuned for more updates from me in the next few months.