Mail.Ru sells dating Mamba – Dni.Ru

09:43 / 12.01.2015 Mail.ru Group, Mamba The company Mail.Ru Group plans to dispose of its stake a dating service Mamba. The owner of this popular resource “Finam” will be able to redeem the service completely.

Earlier Mail.Ru Group sold all the shares of recruitment portal HeadHunter, now in line dating service Mamba, who is a Russian legal entity JSC “Mamba “. The Company owns 31.19% stake in the service. All the other percent of the shares owned by “Finam”.

Price stake owned by Mail.Ru, is not named, but it is estimated at more than a billion rubles. “The fair value of Mamba – at the level of 4-5 billion rubles, respectively, Mail.Ru Group package can cost about 1.4-1.6 billion”, – says head of analytical department of FC AForex Artem Deev.

The main contender for the purchase of shares is called “Finam”. “We are certainly open to negotiations for the acquisition of a package at Mail.Ru”, – quote “Izvestia” the president and chairman of the investment holding company “Finam” Vladislav Kochetkov.

Mamba works on freemium-model in which the user receives basic functionality for free and pay extra for additional functions – for example, advertising their profiles in the overall ranking profiles users. The service has more than 36,000 partner sites. They create in his Introduction, which, although made in his own design, but give access to a single database user Mamba.