- SUP Fabrik
Infobox Company
name = SUP Fabrik
type =Privately held
genre = Online Media Company
foundation = 2006
founder =Alexander Mamut ,Andrew Paulson
location_city =Moscow
location_country =Russia
location =
locations =
area_served =
key_people =Andrew Paulson , Chairman Annelies van den Belt, CEOBenjamin Wegg-Prosser , Director of Corporate Development
industry =Internet
num_employees = 300
homepage = [http://sup.com sup.com]SUP (Russian: "СУП", which means 'soup') is an international
online media company, founded inMoscow during the summer of 2006 byAndrew Paulson and Alexander Mamut. Its ownership is split between Mr Mamut, Kommersant Publishing House and management.SUP’s first major announcement was a licensing agreement with
Six Apart that gave SUP rights to use theLiveJournal brand, as well as operate portions of the LiveJournal service for LiveJournal’s Russian users. [cite news| first = Clint| last = Boulton
url=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2227293,00.asp
title=Six Apart Sells LiveJournal to Russia's SUP
publisher=Ziff Davis Enterprise, Inc.|date=2007-12-03 ] SUP subsequently purchased LiveJournal outright from its previous owners, Six Apart. Since its launch SUP has grown through acquisition and organically. In June 2008 Kommersant Publishing House, a leading Russian media company acquired a significant minority stake in the business.SUP is split into two business divisions, one is SUP Media, which includes Gazeta.ru (Russia's most popular online only news site); Championat.ru (Russia's most popular online only sports site); and LiveJournal.com (Russia's most popular blogging servive and a global community blogging platform). The other business line is SUP Advertising, which includes +SOL (an online sales house which sells SUP's inventory, Russian media sites and foreign media sites including Yahoo, the BBC, Last.fm and a number of newspaper sites) and Victory SA, a digital marketing agency.
References
External links
SUP corporate
* [http://www.sup.com/en/index.html SUP ] SUP media
* [http://livejournal.com/ LiveJournal.com]
* [http://www.championat.ru/ Championat.ru]
* [http://gazeta.ru/ Gazeta.ru] SUP advertising
* [http://www.sol-agency.ru/ +SOL ]
* [http://www.victory-sa.com/ Victory]
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