EUROPAGES and UniCredit Tie Up to Support Italian Import-Export Businesses

PARIS--(Business Wire)--
EUROPAGES, one of the leading European business-to-business search engines
signed a partnership agreement with UniCredit Group, one of the major financial
services organizations in Europe, with strong roots in Austria, Germany, Italy,
Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey and present globally
in over 22 countries with its branch. UniCredit has recently launched Imprendo
Export a banking account for SMEs which operating or want operate outside their
country. Imprendo Export include every bank services and also special content
and services such as country profiles, risk rating of country and counterpart,
and business partners search. Europages is the provider of the business search
tools specially developed for UniCredit.

The newly forged partnership between EUROPAGES and the UniCredit Group is
extremely beneficial to import-export companies looking to develop business
links across Europe. One of the main difficulties in SME business today is
represented by the language barriers present across countries. With its online
directory, Europages is successfully managing to close this gap by translating a
business`s selected content in up to 15 different languages. Ultimately an
advertisement can be easily located by key decision makers from more than 200
countries.

The partnership will provide Italian companies subscribing Imprendo Export with
the necessary platform to search for potential customers and suppliers abroad
and send Buy or Sell propositions. Europages has developed a specific
application giving the possibility to send inquiries in any of Europages`
featured languages. UniCredit customers can also provide letters of reference
from the bank translated in the language of selected counterparts.

"After repositioning all of its activity online, EUROPAGES is now in a position
to leverage its web expertise in order to reply to specific needs for strategic
partners.
In line with Europages mission to accompany the development of European SMEs,
these tailor-made solutions are applicable to any sector in any country",
concluded Paolo Giuri, CEO of EUROPAGES.

***

About EUROPAGES:
EUROPAGES is a leading European business-to-business search engine that lists
approximately 1.5 million most important import/export companies, covering all
business sectors, in 35 countries.
The EUROPAGES website (www.europages.com) is currently available in 26
languages. Europages` three main investors are SEAT Pagine Gialle (Turin,
Italy), Yell Publicidad (Madrid, Spain) and DeTeMedien (Deutsche Telekom -
Francfort, Germany), the main Publishers of the European Yellow Pages. The
company has 130 employees from 20 different nationalities. www.europages.com

About the UniCredit Group:
The UniCredit Group is one of the largest financial services organizations in
Europe in terms of size and profitability. It can boast over 170,000 employees,
over 40 million customers and over 9000 branches across 22 European countries.
The Group has deep roots in Italy, Germany and Austria and it can also claim to
be the leader in Central and Eastern Europe, an area featuring rapid economic
growth rates.
www.unicreditgroup.eu

Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available:
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=5968572&lang=en

EUROPAGES
Claudine Leprince
Communication Director
Phone: + 33 1 41 16 49 39
claudine.leprince@europages.com
or
UniCredit Group
Manrico Lucchi
UniCredit Media Relations Retail
Phone: + 39 051 6404176
Mobile: + 39 335 7929980
manrico.lucchi@unicreditgroup.eu
or
Andrea Morawski
Head of Media Relations - International
Phone: + 39 02 8862 2055
andrea.morawski@unicreditgroup.eu

Copyright Business Wire 2009