Sale of leading German shopping portal billiger.de to consortium of publishing houses

billiger.de is the best-known shopping portal and provides one of the most comprehensive product offerings in Germany: 28 product categories cover more than 10 million products from over 1,800 direct partner online shops. In addition, billiger.de offers comprehensive product information, such as technical specifications, historical price development & current prices, user feedback, shop information, reviews, etc. billiger.de increased its number of unique users by 22% in December 2009 making it Germany’s leading price comparison site, according to Nielsen.

“Over the last years, we have generated strong, profitable growth, making billiger.de a huge success story. We believe that this group of publishers is the perfect partner for the next phase of billiger.de’s expansion”, commented Urs Keller, Managing Director and Founder of billiger.de/solute GmbH.

Jupiter Capital Partners advised ProSiebenSat.1 Group, SevenOne Intermedia, and management of solute on this transaction.

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