PRAGUE, July 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE:
YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local
businesses, today announced the availability of Yelp Czech Republic
(http://www.yelp.cz). Beginning today, people in the Czech Republic are able to create accounts on
Yelp.cz to share their opinions about great local businesses.
Yelp's free iPhone and Android applications will be available as
well as its free suite of business owner tools: Yelp for Business
Owners (http://biz.yelp.cz).
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"The Czechs already have the reflex to look online for
information about local businesses and have, until now, needed to
scour multiple destinations to get the true colour of what
experience they can expect," said Miriam
Warren, Vice President New Markets. "Today sees the arrival
of Yelp in the Czech Republic and
as we hand over the reigns to the locals, we look forward to
watching it develop into the go-to destination for local business
insight, as it has in the 21 countries we have already launched
in".
One of the most prosperous of the post-communist countries, the
Czech Republic has an educated and
tech savvy population. Putting these attributes together with a
love of sharing and entrepreneurship, the Czechs are an ideal match
for the Yelp ideal of connecting people with great local
businesses.
The capital, Prague, one of the
top ten most visited cities in Europe, will see the initial concentration of
Yelp's community building efforts. However, the full-featured site
will be available across the whole of the Czech Republic for people to share their
insights about what is good, great, and not so great about the
businesses in their neighbourhoods, wherever they are. The site
supports Czech, English, Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish, German,
Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Polish and Turkish.
To learn more and see pictures of Yelp.cz and our iPhone and
Android applications, visit our Yelp Official Blog
(http://officialblog.yelp.com).
About Yelp
Yelp (http://www.yelp.com or http://www.yelp.cz) connects people
with great local businesses. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in July
2004. Since then, Yelp communities have taken root in major
metros across the US, Canada, UK,
Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, The
Netherlands, Spain,
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Singapore, Poland, Turkey and New
Zealand. Yelp had a monthly average of 102 million unique
visitors in Q1 2013*. By the end of Q1 2013, Yelpers had written
more than 39 million rich, local reviews, making Yelp the leading
local guide for real word-of-mouth on everything from boutiques and
mechanics to restaurants and dentists. Yelp's mobile application
was used on approximately 10 million unique mobile devices on a
monthly average basis during Q1 2013. For more information, please
visit http://www.yelp.cz or send an email to press@yelp.com.
* Source: Google Analytics
Media Contacts:
UK
Elliot Adams
Yelp
eadams@yelp.co.uk or press@yelp.co.uk
+44 (0) 207 347 1663