Bizeurope.com

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Bizeurope.com is published by European publisher UGA media who is based in the Netherlands.

UGA media was founded may 1989 and originally started as a software developer of a diskmagazine and software utilities for the Commodore Amiga. With the release of the "Powerpacker" product range we managed to created a worldwide accepted compression format for Amiga users.

Our diskmagazine Newsflash was quite popular and till today we get emails from people who enjoyed our Amiga period.

When Commodore went bankrupt we had to choose for a new platform so we move to the PC market. Our first release was again a diskmagazine and later utilities were added, mainly for the local market. Diskmagazine Newflash PC was licensed and published in Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

In 1994 we launched our first cd-rom title "Wolfhounds 32tfs 1954-1994" which was an historical cd-rom telling the story of the famound USAF squadron "The Wolfhounds" based at Soesterberg Airforce Base at that time. After 40 years of service the squadron ceased to excist.

After this cd-rom over 50 other titles were released. Categories covered were Aviation, Travel, Cars, Diving and Education. Especially our cd-roms to test the knowledge of coming car drivers are still our best selling products in the Dutch market.

In 1996 we noticed the potential of online publishing and we put our first step on the online market. We launched various local portals and aviation portals. Also we made the first start of a b2b portal as Holland is known for its export market. Originally the name was UGA tradenet which was changed in 1997 to Bizeurope.com

While other internet companies went for the big money telling investors and banks wonderful stories we stayed low and worked hard to add content to our portal. Revenue from our cd-roms was used to develop our portal so we had to stay creative because our budget was very limited.

Now 6 years later our traffic has grown from 60 a day to over 10.000 visitors a day to the Bizeurope network. Also we have lauched over 60 popular websites and we are still growing.

As 80% of our sales is now generated online we will focus on:

- Bizeurope developments- Development of an image portal (imagesupplier.com)

- Online versions of planned cd-rom titles

In the mean time we have 3 full time working employees doing online research so amount of data on our site is growing but also we try to improve the quality of our data by providing more detailed descriptions of importers/distributor profiles.

Because of our huge traffic we can also offer companies an easy way to promote their products to our visitors. We offer links, profile listing, sponsoring, and banner advertising.

As we have no ties with investors or bankers we have absolute freedom and can continue with the plans we made back in 1996.