Meetic Plans To Double Earnings

BLOOMBERG -- May 14 -- Meetic, Europe's biggest Internet dating service, plans to double earnings in four years by charging more of its Web-site users and expanding in Germany and the U.K. Meetic, which bought DatingDirect in the U.K. and Neu.de in Germany in the past two years, may make "smaller, targeted'' purchases in Nordic countries such as Sweden or Denmark. Meetic's earnings jumped 52% to 26.5m euros ($41m) in 2007. Meetic is adding two new Web sites, one catering to women, one to young people. FULL ARTICLE @ BLOOMBERG