The consumer on-line Community Ciao was created in the summer 1999 by Frederick Paul, Max Cartellieri and Verena Mohaupt in Munich. In November 1999 the portal on-line went. In February 2000 Ciao with the competitor Amiro.de fused. The enterprise Ciao employs in the six European agencies Munich, London, Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, Timisoara (Romania) as well as in the USA of approximately 170 coworkers.

Also over 20 million PAGE Impressions and 4 million Visits in June 2005 belongs to Ciao to the largest and most successful Shopping portals in Germany. Also in Great Britain, France, Spain and Italy Ciao belongs to the Big Playern in the ranges price comparison and market study. In November 2005 the Dutch page Ciao Shopping on-line went.

The Ciao GmbH (current daughter of Greenfield on-line one) operates two business fields: on the one hand on-line Shopping portal Ciao, which offers consumer opinions for most different products and services, on the other hand the business field Consumer ACCESS, which wants to make on-line access for the market study industry possible as suppliers on specific target groups.

Shopping portal

Ciao offers price comparisons and consumer opinions to millions of products and services. Ciao is one of the most extensive purchase advisors in the Internet. The German Ciao members write 8,000 empiric reports on the average in the month to current products. They have the possibility of discussing in the Ciao current topics or to be exchanged simply information as for example prescriptions.

As registered users can one with empiric reports over products money make, whereby the remuneration were gradually ever continued to lower since start.

Consumer ACCESS

After the American enterprise Greenfield on-line one transferred in April 2005 the former Ciao AG for 154 million US Dollar, the second business field increases strongly. With the assumption Greenfield, prominent offerer of Internet solutions for enterprise marketing promises itself to expand its range to west and Central Europe and to introduce the Ciao platform also in the USA.

Also within this range the users possible money is to be made. Thus Ciao loads its members, dependently on their interests, in irregular distances to inquiries of partners in. For the complete outer filling of these on-line inquiries one receives usually amounts between 0,20 and 10, - euro

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