East-West Digital News 14 July 2012
Morgan Stanley has been mandated by Superjob.ru, a leading online recruitment platform with 3.2 million unique users monthly, to find a potential acquirer of a minority stake, Russian business daily Kommersant reported yesterday. “We would offer a minority stake to a partner whose good name on the NASDAQ could help us go public successfully,” Kommersant quoted Superjob CEO Alexey Zakharov as saying.
Superjob is a profitable company and has thus far never needed investor money, Zakharov underlined. In an IPO, the founders will sell only a “minimum” quantity of shares.
Zakharov and his partner Sergey Gabestro co-founded Superjob.ru in 2000 before investing $1.5 million in a recruitment agency they launched one year later, Kommesant reported. Now Superjob.ru stands as Russia’s third largest online recruitment service in terms of audience, just after RDW.ru and HH.ru, the latter controlled by Mail.ru Group.
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