merge&acquisition - modern everyday acquired by livedeal inc (nasdaq: live)
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NEW YORK, NY, Sep 18, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX)
-- When LiveDeal LIVE, +1.64% acquired online retailer,
ModernEveryday.com, late last month, it was a great
opportunity to spend a little money now to make a great deal
of profit in the future. Modern Everyday will instantly provide
LiveDeal with strong annual revenues while executives
continue to expand the company's flagship
property, www.livedeal.com, which connects restaurant
owners to consumers with "instant" real-time promotions.
According to Inc. Magazine, in 2012, Modern Everyday
made $1.2 million in annual revenue, but by 2013, that
revenue had grown to almost $10 million representing a 3-year
growth rate of 700 percent. Acquiring a fast-growing retail
platform that can add immediate revenues makes a lot of sense
for LiveDeal at a time when it's methodically growing its own
unique deals engine.
Modern Everyday, located in Alhambra, California, has both a retail location and a
web presence at www.moderneveryday.com where it provides consumers with
products that range from kitchen and dining products to apparel and sporting goods
to children's toys and beauty products.
In addition to the increase in revenues that Modern Everyday will provide, it will
also offer a proprietary software that gives LiveDeal the capability to track products
and predict consumer behavior and spending habits based on real knowledge of what
consumers are looking for.
LiveDeal, Inc. Acquisition Adds an Expected $10 Million in Annual Revenues and Growing
This acquisition marks the next step in LiveDeal's evolution to become a leading
online presence for consumer deals across a variety of verticals. The company's
reach now includes a platform that offers instant dining deals in almost 10,000
restaurants in 50 major US cities, and a few acquisitions later, LiveDeal has
expanded to offer deals in the retail space.