325:. In the first year MyVoucherCodes had a turnover of £300,000. In 2011 the company bought VouChaCha in 2011, which became their mobile location-based player, and the following year they bought Last Second Tickets, a discounted tickets reseller for sport, events and attractions. In the first half of the decade they also expanded to France, Germany, and United States, and then to Italy, Spain, and Netherlands. In June 2014, after suffering a significant drop in revenue from £8m to £4.5m due to Google Algorithm changes, he sold parent company Markco Media to
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