9 Oct 2012 07:00
9 October 2012 For immediate release
MAIL.RU GROUP LIMITED
Notification of Trading Update
and Conference Call
London / Moscow - MAIL.RU GROUP LIMITED ("Mail.ru Group" or the "Company") will release, before market open on Thursday 25th October 2012, its revenue trading update for Q3 2012.
The management team will host an analyst conference call at 14.00 UK time (17.00 Moscow time, 9.00 U.S. Eastern Daylight Time), on Thursday 25th October 2012, including a Question and Answer session.
To participate in this conference call, please use the following access details:
Confirmation Code: | 39610947 |
Participant Toll Free Telephone Numbers: | |
Russia Free Phone | 810 800 2232 2044 |
UK Free Phone | 0800 694 8016 |
USA Free Phone | 1866 691 1171 |
Standard International Call | +44 (0) 1452 557535 |
Investor Relation Contacts:
Matthew Hammond
Managing Director Mail.Ru Group
Phone: +971 505 56 1315
E-mail: hammond@corp.mail.ru
Press Contacts:
Ksenia Chabanenko
Phone: +7 916 0906626
E-mail: ks@corp.mail.ru
About Mail.Ru Group Limited
Mail.Ru Group (LSE:MAIL, listed since November 5, 2010) is a leading Internet company in the high-growth Russian-speaking Internet markets (Russia is Europe's largest Internet market measured by number of users, comScore). Mail.Ru Group's sites reach approximately 81.8 per cent of Russian Internet users on a monthly basis (comScore, August 2012) and the Company is the world's sixth largest Internet business, based on total time spent online (comScore, August 2012).
In line with the Communitainment (Communications + Entertainment) strategy the Company is moving rapidly to build an integrated communication and entertainment platform. The Company operates two of the three largest Russian language online social networking sites (Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir (or "My World")). The Company also operates the two largest Instant Messaging ("IM") networks in Russia (Mail.Ru Agent and ICQ), Russia's leading email service and Russia's largest Internet portal Mail.ru, and the Company operates Russia's largest online games platform.
The Company holds strategic minority equity stakes in VKontakte (39.99%) and Qiwi, formerly OE Investments (21.35%). The Company also holds small minority stakes in international Internet companies including Facebook (1.34%), Zynga (1.15%) and Groupon (4.11%) as well as a number of small venture capital investments in various Internet companies in Russia and Ukraine.