ZANOX RANKED NUMBER 3 IN THE DELOITTE TECHNOLOGY FAST 50!
Phenomenal growth by global leader in performance-based online marketing recognised by Deloitte for the third consecutive year

Chicago/Berlin, 11th October 2007 – zanox, the global market leader for performance-based multichannel commerce, has been awarded 3 place by Deloitte for its outstanding growth in the fast growing technology sector. A ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Germany, recognised for their innovation leadership, strategy and growth.

The ranking is based on the cumulative rate of revenue growth between 2002 and 2006. Over this period, the revenue growth at zanox amounted to more than 3,468%, securing third place overall. zanox’ worldwide net sales increased by more than 113% only from 2005 to 2006. In the last years the annual growth was of constantly over 100%. zanox has now more than 2,000 prestigious international companies across diverse business sectors as clients and cooperates with over one million sales partners worldwide.

Thomas Hessler, Co-Founder and CEO of zanox comments “We are very pleased to be recognised by Deloitte Fast 50 again for our exceptional growth; this recognition reinforces our leadership positioning in performance-based online marketing and multichannel commerce. Today, we are the only online marketing company giving a true global reach to our partners and we look forward to continued success.”

In the previous two years zanox was placed in the top 10 and employees have grown from 17 in 2002 to more than 300 today. The Deloitte Fast 50 was launched in San Jose in 1995 and now operates globally. The Fast 50 award has become the benchmark to identify the fastest growing high technology companies through an objective ranking based on percentage revenue growth.


About zanox
zanox is the global market leader for performance-based multichannel commerce and the zanox XS solution provides a global platform for efficiently marketing products and services on the Internet. Award winning affiliate marketing and search engine management, zanox's online marketing services include e-mail marketing, online shopping and customer loyalty programs. More than 2,000 prestigious international companies across diverse business sectors from telecoms to travel and retail to finance with household names such as Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Orange, Jamster, DADAmobile and Celldorado utilising the zanox network. In the travel sector, business such as KLM, Air Berlin, Opodo, lastminute.com employ zanox's strategic distribution channel. Retail customers include Amazon, Otto, Neckermann, La Redoute and within the financial service sector Citibank and Royal Bank of Scotland are valued customers.
zanox currently works with more than one million sales partners in over 190 countries worldwide. zanox partners earn solid revenues by advertising on websites, search engines, as well as in e-mails and software. zanox was founded in 2000 by CEOs Thomas Hessler, Heiko Rauch and Jens Hewald and employs more than 300 people. Since 2007 zanox is part of the Axel Springer and PubliGroupe. Axel Springer is Germany´s biggest newspaper publishing house and third-largest magazine publisher. PubliGroupe is an internationally active marketer and service provider for cross-media commercial communication.