TOPHEDGE AG
TOPHEDGE AG: Tophedgeinvests in Germany’s leading search engine optimizer
TOPHEDGE AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous Tophedgeinvests in Germany’s leading search engine optimizer The Tophedge AG has acquired a significant stake in the Online Marketing Solutions AG (OMS), Eschborn, Germany. OMS, founded in 2004, is one of the largest online marketingproviders in Europe. The client base of the technology oriented service provider is primarily composed of small and medium sized companies that use the internet as a marketing vehicle. OMS Group’s growing client base is increasingly turning awayfrom the traditional client acquisition mediums such as the ‘Yellow Pages’ and are employing internet search machines and online marketing in orderto expand their client base.OMS with its more than 100 employees offers a complete line of servicesto aid their clients in their business endeavors; starting with search machine marketing and optimization through affiliate marketing and internet public relations, all the way up to web applications.OMS has been profitable since day one with a yearly growth rate of approximately 35%, and has established itself as the largest service provider in the highly fragmented German market.Using its experience gained in over 7,500 online marketing projects,the Group has opened up the online business world for its small and mid-sized customers and has been crucial to the successof larger companies in their online business.Online Marketing Solutions AG’s stock is highly undervalued in Tophedge AG’s opinion: Tophedge based their investment on the fact that this ‘Cash Flow Maschine’works profitably in a growing market sector and is actually valued extremely cheaply; also adding that they would purchase even more stock should the price remain weak.The OMS stock was once valued at over 55 Euros and can be currently had for under a third of that.As a result Tophedge sees extreme upside potential, alone due to the fact that the new investment’s streamlined and profitable structure makes it an interesting takeover candidate for the competition both internationally and domestically. A prospectus for Online Marketing Solutions AG was filed and accepted September 12, 2011 by the BAFin (Federal Financial Supervisory Authorities) and is available for perusal at www.online-marketing-solutions.de. The company now desires to increase its market profile and develop and expand new client bases. The Tophedge AG will accompany OMS in its development as a strategic investor. About Tophedge TophedgeAktiengesellschaft’s primary objective is to achieve the highest possible yield on its own managed assets with minimized risk. Their focus is on investment income and capital gains using short as well as medium term investments to achieve this goal. This approach provides them with the capability to react quickly and flexibly to macroeconomic and geopolitical occurrences, and hence profit from resulting price swings in the marketplace. The TophedgeAktiengesellschaft continues to focus its investments in the early phase and expansion financing of high-growth companies. They concentrate mainly on innovative entrepreneurial companies, primarily from Germany. The TophedgeAktiengesellschaft also invests in exchange listed smallcap companies. These are usually strategic investments with a longer term view, whereby Tophedge takes an active role in the company invested in. Special situations can arise alongside these long term investments due to changing circumstances which allow Tophedge to react on a short term basis as well. The TophedgeAktiengesellschaft invests for its own portfolio and may invest in conjunction with Co-investors who invest parallel in a promising investment, or separately in other companies. Please note This notification constitutes neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to purchase any share, or securities of this company. The securities described here are not available for offer, sale or trading in the United States, nor are they registered in the United States under the applicable SEC laws. Tophedge Aktiengesellschaft End of Corporate News 25.09.2012 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. DGAP’s Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de |
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