Wednesday, April 14, 2004

MULTIMAP

Multimap is Europe's leading provider of mapping and location-based services. Our company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to businesses and consumers than any other supplier in Europe.

The business has two parts: the Public Web Site and Business Services.

The Public Web Site
Multimap.com is Europe's most popular mapping web site, offering a range of free, useful services to assist with everyday life. Key features include street-level maps of the United Kingdom, Europe, and the US; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information. Multimap also provides a range of complementary services through its partners. These include entertainment, hotel, holiday-cottage, restaurant and train-ticket booking services, SMS weather alerts and the ability to buy both historic and aerial photograph prints.

Since its launch in 1996, Multimap.com has become the number one online directory in the UK*, and one of the 10 most-visited sites in the UK overall*. In 2003 the public web site regularly delivers more than 80 million page views and received more than 6.3 million unique users per month. Traffic continues to grow on average by 10% per month.

Press comments about Multimap.com include:

"Brilliant – what a site." (Sunday Times)

"One of the seven wonders of the web." (Guardian Unlimited)

"The mother of all UK map sites." (Daily Telegraph)
Multimap has also won the World Communications Award for “Best Internet Service 2002” and the Web User (UK) Award for the “Most Innovative Use of the Web 2003”.