French and Germans snap up kit to support their teams, but Brits are lukewarm

England may have invented the sport, but could they be losing interest in the Three Lions? Twenga reveals that visits to football kits on www.twenga.co.uk have grown just 10% in the run up to the World Cup. In France, visits grew 40%. In Germany, visits leapt 236%.

Where is World Cup fever? For individual kit items the picture is grim for England. For football shirts, German visits are up 580% while in England, visits muster a growth of just 35%. Football caps are up 548% in Germany, while in the UK they’re up just 113%. In France visits to football t-shirts are up 237%, while England lags behind, rising just 6%.

Thanks to Twenga, Internet users can get a 10% off voucher for World Cup merchandise from the official FIFA online store.

Visits as at 26 May 2010, compared with a month before.

Shopping search engine upgrades its sites to better display 230 million deals from over 100,000 retailers

London, 22nd April 2010 – On Twenga, the new-generation shopping search engine, the number of shopping offers recently leaped to over 230 million products from more than 100,000 retailers. To illustrate Twenga’s amazing scale: a physical store with as many products would cover an area the size of Plymouth. So Twenga continues the rapid growth that has taken it to 14 countries in just three years, and propelled it to 14^th place among price comparison sites (source : comScore, January 2010)

“Thanks to our technology, we are able to progressively index all online retailers. We are well on the way to achieving our objective of being the most comprehensive shopping search engine on the internet.” says Bastien Duclaux,Director and co-founder of Twenga. “We give users a range of choice that reflects the virtually infinite choice of the online world.”

To help users easily take advantage of this huge range, Twenga has radically simplified its sites.

“Twenga means ‘straight to the point’,” explains Gaël de Talhouet, VP Marketing at Twenga. “We’ve simplified our site navigation to help users easily find the product they want at the best price among the millions of deals from our retailers. We’ve put in a navigation bar to directly access multiple search criteria, and highlighted useful content such as bestsellers by category. For example, to buy a set of garden furniture, the user can straight away find the material and colour they want from among the 4,452 products from 137 shops.”

For example: Garden furniture and garden sets on Twenga

A wide range of choices both classic and original to tempt users online this February

London – January 26th, 2010.
Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, has launched its 2010 Valentine’s buying guide, with shopping ideas suited for everyone. Finding traditional favourites and quirky niche gifts couldn’t be easier thanks to the breadth of the products shown on www.twenga.co.uk.

Fashionable this year
Users can pick up classics like perfume, champagne, watches and rose petals, as well as find the popular items for 2010. This year’s must have gift for women is a Pandora Bracelet.

Say it differently
Romantics can start the day with breakfast in bed, saying ‘I love you’ on toast, thanks to a range of toast stamps. Or why not finish off the day in the bath, accompanied by a cool designer duck?

Say it heart shaped
Timeless classics abound this year with heart shaped cufflinks and keyrings, but users can branch out with interesting ideas such as heart shaped pans and heart shaped pasta for that romantic evening meal.

Twenga recognised as one of the ‘100 most promising’ new technology companies

Laguna Nigel – California, 15 January 2010 - Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, has received the Red Herring 100 Global Award, awarded to the top 100 private technology companies worldwide.

In three years, Twenga has established itself in 14 countries, most recently the USA, Brazil, Australia and India. Twenga’s websites now display more than 180 million products from over 75,000 retailers and receive more than 25 million visits a month. Twenga’s key advantage remains its totally objective and neutral product results, ideal for shoppers, who are always looking for impartial price comparisons.

Twenga is able to display almost 10 times more product offers than other price comparison sites thanks to its proprietary technology automatically indexing retailer sites, and thus guaranteeing that users really find the best deal.

In awarding this prize, the Red Herring media group carefully considered 1,200 private companies, chosen from among the finalists and winners of the regional awards Red Herring 100 Asia, Europe and North America from the last three years. Criteria included financial performance, management quality, delivery on strategy and involvement in research and development. For this global prize, the judges paid particular attention to strategies and the ability to establish an international presence.

“This year was especially difficult,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Now we’re faced with the arduous task of selecting the final 100 winners of the award. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far.”

Bastien Duclaux, CEO and co-founder of Twenga said,
“We would like to thank the Red Herring Global Award judges for recognising the worldwide success of Twenga with this global award. Twenga was designed as a global company from its inception. Thanks to our pioneering technology, we have succeeded in establishing our shopping search engine in 14 countries across four continents in less than three years. This is four times faster than our competitors. We offer users greater choice, and a more objective choice. We offer retailers better return on marketing investment.”

Successful application downloaded by 50,000 iPhone users is now available in four additional languages.

London, October 30 2009 – Twenga the most comprehensive online shopping search engine, today launched an updated version of its iPhone application to help shoppers find the best price available before buying in-store or online.

iPhone and iPod touch users can download the application for free on http://www.twenga.co.uk/iphone/ and directly from the App Store on iTunes.

Thanks to a technology specifically tailored for the iPhone, users now have the freedom to check prices from their phones before they make a purchase. Within a few clicks users can see and compare prices, product details, specifications and consumer reviews from more than 700,000 high-tech products and 800 brands covering computers, Audio-video, telephone, photo and appliances…from 1,250 online shops.

Hailed as the ‘best price comparison site adopted for the mobile’  Twenga continues to lead the price comparison category.

The updated version includes three major upgrades:
• Direct Access to Online Shops
Users can now go directly to an online shop from the iPhone application, without having to close the application.
• Improved Ergonomics
Users can now hide the keyboard visible on screen and colours have been optimised to be more visually appealing.
• Extended Reach
The application was originally launched in 6 countries: United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands. It’s now available in four additional countries: Australia, Poland, Russia and Brazil.

Since its inception, Twenga has adhered to a strict dedication to becoming the most encompassing and objective shopping search engine. As such, the company’s search results are always free of any commercial bias. This updated iPhone application is typical of the companies commitment to the continual development and improvement of the service they offer, giving shoppers an easily accessible price comparison tool, on the go, directly from their mobiles.

[1] Source : « Are mobile comparison sites any good ? », eConsultancy, Février 2009.