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Dominion Enterprises
Acquires PowerSports Network
Enhances Its Current Web Services Offerings
to Cycle and Marine Dealers
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ --
Dominion Enterprises today announced that it has
acquired PowerSports Network (PSN), the
country's largest provider of web site
development services for power sports dealers.
PSN also provides services to a growing number
of dealers in the marine industry. Terms of the
transaction were not disclosed.
PowerSports Network, headquartered in Sussex,
Wis., was founded in 1998. PSN currently serves
more than 2,100 customers in the United States,
Canada and Puerto Rico, and has continually
doubled its customer base every year since its
founding.
"We are pleased to welcome the number one
developer of web sites for power sports and
marine dealers to the Dominion Enterprises
family," said Conrad M. Hall, Chief Executive
Officer. "By combining PSN with our own Vehicle
Web Services businesses, Dominion has greatly
enhanced its ability to offer end-to-end
solutions for dealers who are looking to build
their business on the web."
With expertise in online and print
advertising, as well as web services, Dominion
Enterprises serves as a single source for power
sports and marine dealers. The company's current
portfolio includes some of the most visited
cycle and marine web sites, including Boats.com,
Yachtworld.com, BoatTrader.com and
CycleTrader.com, and local and national print
publications such as Cycle Trader, Walneck's
Classic Motorcycle, Boat Trader and Yacht
Trader. In the fast-growing web services area,
the company offers Cycle Web Services and Marine
Web Services, which provide dealers with the
most advanced products and services including
web sites, lead management tools and
comprehensive lead-generation products.
Nick Avgoulas, Principal of PSN, said, "In
combination with Dominion Enterprises, we
foresee PowerSports Network continuing along a
dramatic growth curve. On 'day one' of this
acquisition, we are part of a much larger
company with an established portfolio of both
print and web-based resources for dealers. Our
total offering will be integrated across a broad
variety of portals serving the power sports and
marine industries."
The company's three co-founders, Nick
Avgoulas, Steve Weiner and Kevin Brandenburg,
will all join Dominion Enterprises.
"With the addition of PSN's first-rate
capabilities, we will be able to better serve
our customers, going well beyond advertising
into other, richer services such as e-commerce,
drip marketing and lead management," said Rick
Murchake, Vice President, Dominion's Vehicle Web
Services division. "PSN's capabilities and its
senior leadership promise to make Dominion
Enterprises the unparalleled leader in
integrated print and web-based initiatives for
power sports and marine dealers."
About PowerSports Network (PSN)
PowerSports Network was founded in 1998 with
the goal of helping power sports and marine
dealers leverage their brick and mortar store on
the Internet. Today, PSN is the largest provider
of dealer web sites for motorcycle, power sports
and marine dealers, with over 2,100 dealers
located in all 50 states and Canada. PSN focuses
exclusively on the power sports and marine
industries to provide a complete dealer web site
solution, lead management, and other marketing
tools to help dealers harness the power of the
Internet on behalf of dealers. PowerSports
Network is headquartered in Sussex, Wis. For
more information, visit PowerSports Network at
www.powersportsnetwork.org or call (800)
556-0314.
About Dominion Enterprises
Dominion Enterprises, headquartered in
Norfolk, Va., is a leading media and information
services company serving employment, real
estate, recreation, and industrial markets in
the United States. The company has over 500 paid
and free magazine titles such as For Rent,
Harmon Homes, The Employment Guide, Boat Trader,
Cycle Trader and RV Trader with a combined
weekly circulation of over 5 million; over 40
market-leading websites such as www.ForRent.com,
www.HarmonHomes.com, www.Homes.com, and
www.TraderOnline.com reaching over 8 million
monthly visitors; data capture and distribution
businesses such as Dealer Specialties; and web
services businesses across all the company's
industry categories. The company has 6,600
employees nationwide and 2006 annual revenue of
$850 million. For more information on Dominion
Enterprises, visit www.dominionenterprises.com
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