PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EUROPAGES, one of the leading European business-to-business search engines signed a partnership agreement with UniCredit Group, one of the major financial services organizations in Europe, with strong roots in Austria, Germany, Italy, Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey and present globally in over 22 countries with its branch. UniCredit has recently launched Imprendo Export a banking account for SMEs which operating or want operate outside their country. Imprendo Export include every bank services and also special content and services such as country profiles, risk rating of country and counterpart, and business partners search. Europages is the provider of the business search tools specially developed for UniCredit.

The newly forged partnership between EUROPAGES and the UniCredit Group is extremely beneficial to import-export companies looking to develop business links across Europe. One of the main difficulties in SME business today is represented by the language barriers present across countries. With its online directory, Europages is successfully managing to close this gap by translating a business’s selected content in up to 15 different languages. Ultimately an advertisement can be easily located by key decision makers from more than 200 countries.

The partnership will provide Italian companies subscribing Imprendo Export with the necessary platform to search for potential customers and suppliers abroad and send Buy or Sell propositions. Europages has developed a specific application giving the possibility to send inquiries in any of Europages’ featured languages. UniCredit customers can also provide letters of reference from the bank translated in the language of selected counterparts.

“After repositioning all of its activity online, EUROPAGES is now in a position to leverage its web expertise in order to reply to specific needs for strategic partners.
In line with Europages mission to accompany the development of European SMEs, these tailor-made solutions are applicable to any sector in any country”, concluded Paolo Giuri, CEO of EUROPAGES.

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About EUROPAGES:
EUROPAGES is a leading European business-to-business search engine that lists approximately 1.5 million most important import/export companies, covering all business sectors, in 35 countries.
The EUROPAGES website (www.europages.com) is currently available in 26 languages. Europages’ three main investors are SEAT Pagine Gialle (Turin, Italy), Yell Publicidad (Madrid, Spain) and DeTeMedien (Deutsche Telekom – Francfort, Germany), the main Publishers of the European Yellow Pages. The company has 130 employees from 20 different nationalities. www.europages.com

About the UniCredit Group:
The UniCredit Group is one of the largest financial services organizations in Europe in terms of size and profitability. It can boast over 170,000 employees, over 40 million customers and over 9000 branches across 22 European countries. The Group has deep roots in Italy, Germany and Austria and it can also claim to be the leader in Central and Eastern Europe, an area featuring rapid economic growth rates.
www.unicreditgroup.eu

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