LeGuide.com S.A. Concludes an Agreement on the Future Acquisition of dooyoo, a Social Shopping Guide With a Strong Presence in Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain


PARIS, June 5 /PRNewswire/ --     LeGuide.com S.A. (Alternext - ALGUI), the leading independent publisher
of Internet shopping guides in France and the fifth most popular in Europe*,
announces the conclusion of an agreement for the future acquisition of the
social shopping guide dooyoo as part of its strategic European development.

The acquisition would not only strengthen the company's geographical
presence but also enhance the features of the different websites of
LeGuide.com S.A., particularly regarding consumer reviews and user generated
content. Moreover, the acquisition is perfectly consistent with its stated
goal of becoming number three in Europe within the next two years.

In March 2008, the joint audiences* of the two companies amounted to 8.8
million unique visitors in those markets.

"Not only we would achieve a significant position on the German market,
which represents the 2nd largest European eCommerce market, but also this
acquisition would enable us to expedite our growth on the highly dynamic UK
market. The latter is, this is no secret, a challenging but promising one.",
comments Corinne Lejbowicz, CEO of LeGuide.com S.A.

Beyond that dooyoo would also contribute with its important know-how in
matters of consumer reviews: 50, 000 new reviews in Germany and an additional
20, 000 in the United Kingdom are added monthly to their sites. These
high-grade review databases were built up over several years of close
cooperation with Internet users. User generated content represents a great
asset to the quality of a shopping guide and would thus allow LeGuide.com to
reinforce the popularity of its various websites.

A complementary and synergistic operation

A plurality of synergies is possible: On the one hand dooyoo would profit
from LeGuide.com's corporate skills and technological resources today partly
outsourced by the company. As a countermove dooyoo's excellent skills in
consumer reviews give a great benefit to LeGuide.com S.A. On a medium-term
time scale, financial profit could be gained by synergies such as technical
implementations and economies of scale.

* Source : Nielsen/Netratings March 2008, France, Germany, Italy, Spain,
Switzerland, United Kingdom

About LeGuide.com S.A. http://www.leguide.com/finance

As one of the leading online shopping guides, LeGuide.com S.A.'s role is
both to help online shoppers search for, compare, and purchase products 
online and to increase e-merchants' visibility, audience, and sales. Strongly 
successful in France with the sites http://www.leguide.com, 
http://www.leguide.net and http://www.webmarchand.com, the company is 
developing internationally along the same lines. The LeGuide.com S.A. network 
is present in 14 countries and has sites in 9 languages: France, Belgium, 
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland, 
Poland, Italy, Netherlands and, since December 2007, Sweden and Denmark. By 
the end of 2007, the company was composed of an international team of 69 
people. OSEO Anvar has labelled LeGuide.com an "Innovative Company". 
LeGuide.com S.A. is listed on the NYSE-Euronext Paris Alternext (under 
mnemonic code ALGUI, ISIN code FR0010146092).

About dooyoo http://www.dooyoo.com

Founded in 1999, dooyoo is a company organized under German law, based in
Berlin, and held essentially by investment funds that have been financing its
development. dooyoo has a workforce of 24 people and a total turnover of EUR
3.6 million for 2007, with an operating result of EUR 0.8 million. As an
online social shopping guide, dooyoo has become a major player in Germany and
has achieved a significant position in the United Kingdom. dooyoo is active
in Germany (http://www.dooyoo.de), the United Kingdom 
(http://www.dooyoo.co.uk), Spain (http://www.dooyoo.es) and Italy
(http://www.dooyoo.it).

LeGuide.com S.A.:
    Astrid Canevet,
    Tel : +33-1-55-43-36-10,
    finance@leguide.com ;
    
    Actifin:
    Ségolène de Saint Martin,
    Tél : +33-1-56-88-11-14,
    ssaintmartin@actifin.fr .



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