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SMALL BUSINESS
Local.com® Acquires Approximately 22,000 Subscription Customers
Company Ends 2009 with over 40,000 Small Business Subscribers
Business Wire
Local.com
Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading local search site and network,
today announced that on December 30, 2009, it acquired approximately
22,000 web hosting subscribers, bringing the company’s total subscribers
to over 40,000. In connection with the transaction, the company also
secured an option to purchase up to approximately 10,000 additional web
hosting subscribers during the first quarter of 2010.
The acquired customers pay approximately $35 per month for web hosting
services, which are provided by a third party with which the company has
contracted.
“This acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive,” said Heath
Clarke, Local.com chairman and CEO. “This is our third subscriber
acquisition since February 2009, and we ended 2009 much closer to our
stated target of 50,000 small business subscribers. We anticipate
additional future acquisitions in order to increase our small business
subscriber base.”
The company acquired the subscribers from LaRoss Partners, LLC, for
approximately $2.6 million in cash, which amount will be reduced in the
event any of the subscribers are not successfully transferred to the
company. The company funded the acquisition by accessing its previously
announced line of credit. The company expects to complete the transfer
of the subscribers during the first quarter 2010.
About Local.com®
Local.com (NASDAQ: LOCM) owns and operates a leading local search site
and private label network in the United States. The company uses
patented technologies to provide over 20 million consumers each month
with the most relevant search results for local businesses, products and
services on Local.com and over 700 regional media sites. Businesses can
target ready-to-purchase consumers using a variety of advertising
products. To advertise, or for more information visit:
www.local.com.
Forward Looking Statements
All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this
document regarding our anticipated financial position, business strategy
and plans and objectives of our management for future operations, are
forward-looking statements. When used in this report, words such as
‘anticipate,’ ‘believe,’ ‘estimate,’ ‘plans,’ ‘expect,’ ‘intend,’
‘projects,’ ‘feel’ and similar expressions and phrases, as they relate
to Local.com or our management, identify forward-looking statements. Any
forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of our management as
well as assumptions made by and information currently available to our
management. Actual results could differ materially from those
contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain
factors, including, but not limited to, our ability to monetize the
Local.com domain, incorporate our local-search technologies, market the
Local.com domain as a destination for consumers seeking local-search
results, grow our business by enhancing our local-search services,
increase the number of businesses that purchase our subscription
advertising and other business products, expand our advertiser and
distribution networks, integrate and effectively utilize our
acquisitions’ technologies, develop our products and sales, marketing,
finance and administrative functions and successfully integrate our
expanded infrastructure, as well as our dependence on major advertisers,
competitive factors and pricing pressures, changes in legal and
regulatory requirements, and general economic conditions. Any
forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to
future events and are subject to these and other risks, uncertainties
and assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations,
growth strategy and liquidity. All subsequent written and oral
forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our
behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this paragraph.
Unless otherwise stated, all site traffic and usage statistics are from
third-party service providers engaged by the company.
Copyright Business Wire 2010
2010-01-05 07:00:00
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