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Sulake Among the Ten Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Europe

the eFinland Weblog

Helsinki, 5 December, 2005 — Helsinki headquartered Sulake, the creator of Habbo Hotel - one of the world's fastest growing teen online communities - was ranked 8th in Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 EMEA list. Sulake is an interactive entertainment company specializing in developing, publishing and distributing multiplayer online communities and games. Sulake was the only company representing interactive entertainment and content creation in Top 10 companies.

The Technology Fast 500 EMEA is a program that ranks the fastest growing technology companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa, highlighting both established and emerging technology companies. Fast 500 measures sustained revenue growth of over five years. The growth of Sulake has been rapid and consistent. Sulake's growth percent over the last five years was astonishing 8173 %.

Sulake's top property, Habbo Hotel, is an online game environment designed for teens. There are localized Habbo Hotels in 16 countries spanning 4 continents: Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Globally Habbo Hotel sites are visited by 4,4 million unique users per month. Nearly 40 million Habbo characters have been created to date. Sulake is currently extending its Habbo brand from online to new areas, such as animation, merchandising and lisencing, and mobile content and games. Habbo is a new type of global teen brand build upon an online community.

"Ranking 8th in the list of 500 fastest growing technology companies in the EMEA region is an impressive accomplishment. This has been possible through universal and highly scalable concept that attracts users from all over the world. Our tremendous growth is also due to our competent and dedicated staff world wide, who have helped transform Sulake from a startup company to a well-established global player in the interactive entertainment industry", according to Timo Soininen, Sulake CEO.

For more information please contact:

Mr. Timo Soininen, CEO
Sulake Corporation
tel. +358 9 681 2270



More information
http://www.sulake.fi
http://www.habbohotel.com

[pechie100]

old news aparently
soz

[NIKES]

Erm.. Taken from sulake website, quite old 5th?

[le harry]

Bit Old I think?