Press Release

MYVOUCHERCODES PARTNERS WITH CIAO UK

SEPTEMBER 2009

MyVoucherCodes partners with Ciao UK
MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, the UK’s leading discount voucher codes site will provide online codes to Bing’s shopping community, www.ciao.co.uk, to offer users further discounts on a huge range of products where available.

www.MyVoucherCodes.co.uk can today announce a partnership with www.ciao.co.uk, where codes will be provided across the entire spectrum of its community-reviewed products; ensuring users are made aware of online discounts before making purchases.

MyVoucherCodes has seen an average of 9 million Brits log on every month this year in a bid to find online discount vouchers and printable discounts. Ciao UK receives over 6 million unique consumer hits every month*, which combined with other unique visitors across Europe makes Ciao the leading comparison shopping site**.

Thousands of leading UK retailers offer promotional discounts to MyVoucherCodes in the form of voucher codes, redeemable at online checkouts. These discounts will now be mirrored across to ciao.co.uk, where they will be placed on relevant retailer and product listings.

MyVoucherCodes also signed a deal in July to provide ITV’s leading morning show GMTV with a white label site incorporating all the latest and most relevant discount voucher codes online for GMTV viewers.

Mark Pearson, Managing Director of MyVoucherCodes.co.uk had the following to say about the partnership,

“Our partnership with Ciao is a fantastic step in the right direction of helping Brits find the right products for them online, at the best possible prices.”

“By combining our two strengths, we hope to give people the ability to save even more money on informed purchases, especially in these tough economic times.”

Tom Hyde, Teamleader E-Commerce at Ciao UK said

“Ciao and its web-savvy community will undoubtedly benefit from the savings they’ll be making on products using the discount vouchers through our comparison service.

“Anything and everything can be reviewed and rated by our community, and the automated MyVoucherCodes discount feed will enhance the shopping experience on ciao.co.uk.”

The recession has ensured a surge in members of the public searching online for money off goods and services using sites such as Ciao and MyVoucherCodes, whilst retailers are keen to provide them in a bid to ensure their custom – 50% more retailers are providing online and printable codes having seen the fantastic public response to online voucher pushes by companies such as Pizza Express and Argos.

Consumer savings on online shopping via MyVoucherCodes.co.uk was up 187% in 2008, saving its users £28 million compared to just £11 million in 2007. This trend seems set to stay, with more than £16+ million already saved by Brits in 2009.

There are over seven million products and more than five million independent product evaluations and reviews of people’s experiences on Ciao, in over 20 top categories.

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For further information, to speak to MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, or to see the best codes online, please contact Rich Leigh, 10 Yetis Publics Relations Agency on 01452 348 211, or rich@10yetis.co.uk.

EDITORS NOTES

About Ciao
Ciao is Europe’s leading shopping and consumer website*and provides customers from Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden with extensive shopping advice on the internet in the particular language. Internet users will find more than seven million products and more than five million independent product evaluations and reviews of people’s experiences in over 20 top categories.

The seven Ciao websites (www.ciao.de, www.ciao.co.uk, www.ciao.fr, www.ciao.it, www.ciao.es, www.ciao-shopping.nl, www.ciao.se) are operated by Ciao GmbH headquartered in Munich, which was founded in 1999.

About MyVoucherCodes
MyVoucherCodes is the 4th fastest growing website of 2008 in the UK, according to NielsenOnline.
MyVoucherCodes is now over two years old and has featured on the likes of BBC Working Lunch, BBC Breakfast, ITV and every major national UK newspaper.

The site now regularly achieves 9m unique visitors per month, saving Brits millions on purchases of goods and services.

MyVoucherCodes received a Gold award in WebUser magazine