Abacho AG (publicly traded company), was founded in Neuss, Germany in 1996 as a full-service advertising agency in the form of a GmbH (German limited liability company). The transition to the AG or publicly traded company form took place shortly before the initial public offering (WKN 568 030) in March 1999. The company’s core business activities are Internet operation services and marketing, from the design of individual marketing measures up to broad marketing concepts. Along with Spider.de, Aladin.de and Eule.de, which in March 2000 were united in the new Internet search engine tool www.Abacho.de, the company rapidly became an expert in the field of Internet search engine operations. Abacho’s search tool, the company’s trademark, is available to users both as a search-only function at www.Abacho.com and as an efficient tool integrated into the Internet portal www.Abacho.com. Abacho’s search engine tool is one of the top products on the German-speaking market. Abacho AG is also present in Austria, Switzerland, France, Britain, Spain, Italy and Turkey with country-specific Abacho versions. In addition to offering our customers licences for the Abacho search engine tool and other Internet products such as Websearch, Sitesearch and various chat tools, which can be used both to increase in-company efficiency and to acquire and retain customers, Abacho AG offers marketing, advertising and market research services. In the field of German-speaking chat tools, Abacho AG is among the leading providers in Europe.