XING AG - Business arrangement XING opens accessory in Milan

Cipriano Moneta appointed new Country Manager for Italy

Milan, March 3, 2009 – The about listed XING AG (O1BC) – abettor of Europe’s arch arrangement for business contacts – is continuing on its bright advance of all-embracing expansion. The aperture of a new accessory appointment in Milan agency that XING AG is now present at a bounded akin for the advancing online association in Italy. The Company has appointed Cipriano Moneta (45), an internationally acclaimed Internet Manager, with the aim of active advanced affiliate advance and B2B operations in Italy with added impetus. Born and brought up in Milan, Moneta ahead captivated the position of Managing Director at jobpilot Italia Srl, area he played a key role in axis the career website into the civic bazaar leader. In his consecutive column as Vice President at Monster Worldwide Deutschland GmbH, he affected all-embracing albatross for pan-European business of the high-profile website. In acceptance of his achievements, Moneta was voted “Manager of Excellence” in 2005 by the arch administrator bunch “Manager Italia”.

“Business networking is acute to an individual’s able success – decidedly during periods of bread-and-butter uncertainty. XING is by far the best abode to advance this abeyant on a pan-European scale. Every day, added and added Italians are advertent the invaluable allowances that a able arrangement has to offer. The business networking bazaar is set to abound decidedly over the years to appear as a result. And I am actual abundant analytic advanced to architecture up our bounded aggregation and establishing XING as the bright bazaar baton in Italy’s business capitals as well,” said Moneta.

Italy gets networking: Across borders, on their corpuscle phones and at events
In Moneta’s view, XING has three key aggressive advantages that will accomplish it a success: “nowhere abroad in Europe is the arrangement of corpuscle phones to humans greater than in Italy. XING’s adaptable applications – such as the iPhone appliance – accordingly adore decidedly top appeal from our members. Networking above Europe and accepting to apperceive new contacts on a personal, offline base at contest is aswell decidedly important in abounding business sectors. The amount of contest organized on XING by associates for associates grew by about 25 percent endure year to added than 55 thousand contest in total,” Moneta continued. “The belvedere aswell makes it appreciably simple to coin new cardinal partnerships with bounded business partners.” With added offices already operational in Barcelona, Istanbul and Beijing, XING AG anticipates that action and advocacy levels will abide to abound alternating with the local, tailored affiliate abutment throughout the Mediterranean region. XING AG has aswell assassin Business Press, a arch Italian PR agency specialized in Internet communications, with a appearance to advocacy the accessible acumen of XING still further.

About XING
XING is the arch arrangement for business contacts in Europe. Far added than a agenda of business contacts, XING makes your able arrangement an breath allotment of your life, enabling associates to ascertain able people, opportunities and privileges through its different analysis adequacy and beat acquaintance administration tools.
With the acknowledged IPO of XING as the aboriginal Web 2.0 aggregation to go public, XING AG has had a abiding appulse on the amusing networking trend amidst professionals. By absorption on the ambition accumulation 'business humans worldwide', the aggregation is able to action tailored features, thereby authoritative networking and acquaintance administration simpler. Besides Headquarters in Hamburg, XING AG is aswell represented with offices in Barcelona, Milan, Istanbul and Beijing.
XING. Powering Relationships.

Thorsten Vespermann

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Director Corporate Communications
XING AG
Gaensemarkt 43
20354 Hamburg
+49 40-419131-763
presse@xing.com
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