Ebay acquires biggest classified ads site in Netherlands
eBay has acquired Marktplaats.nl, the most popular classifieds Web site in the Netherlands for about $290 million, the company announced on Wednesday. It bought the site from Het Goed Beheer BV, a company that owns second-hand retail shops in the Netherlands. Het Goed Beheer BV owns 92 percent of Marktplaats.
Marktplaats.nl site boasts over a million classified ad listings, ranging from clothing and collectibles to cars and household items, and some 500,000 daily visitors.
Marktplaats BV earlier clinched a deal to deploy Google’s search engine and advertising software programmes on Marktplaats.nl and other websites in the Netherlands and abroad.
