Released on: October 30, 2007, 2:08 am

Press Release Author: Sunil

Industry: Consumer Services

Press Release Summary: Mumbai, October 9th, 2007: Shaadi.com, the world's largest
matrimonial service provider, has been recognized as one of India's top 10 marketers
by Business Today in its 4th Annual Listing of 'Marketers who know their Consumers
the best.'

Press Release Body: Mumbai, October 9th, 2007: Shaadi.com, the world's largest
matrimonial service provider, has been recognized as one of India's top 10 marketers
by Business Today in its 4th Annual Listing of 'Marketers who know their Consumers
the best.'

Shaadi.com was selected to feature amongst the top 10, from a master list of 33
companies handpicked by a panel of eminent faces from India's foremost corporate
entities.

Commenting on this occasion, Mr. Anupam Mittal, CMD, People Group said, "We feel
extremely privileged to be recognized as one of India's top 10 marketers. This
recognition by Business Today is of special significance to us, as it acknowledges
and confirms our commitment towards understanding our customers and their needs. For
us, our customers have always had a place of prime importance, and we would like to
share the credit of this achievement with them."

The panelists for this listing included the likes of Nabankar Gupta - a successful
marketing specialist who is now on the board of several large Indian conglomerates,
Sunil Alagh - Marketing Consultant, A G Krishnamurthy - a veteran advertising man
and Brand Consultant, Farokh Balsara - Partner E&Y, Avnish Bajaj of Matrix Partners,
Shiv Vishwanathan - Social Anthropologist-Ambani Institute and Nirmalya Kumar -
Co-director of Aditya Birla India Centre at London Business School.

The others who featured in this listing included - L.N. Mittal, Perfetti, Jet
Airways, Nokia India, Mahindra Group, Bank of Baroda, Indian Institutes of
Technology (IITs), Tata Sky, and Hidesign


About Shaadi.com
Shaadi.com, one of India's best known Internet brands and the world's largest
matrimonial service was founded by People Group in 1997 with one simple objective -
to provide a superior matchmaking experience to Indians all over the world. Since
then the company has created a world-renowned service that has touched the lives of
millions of people all over the world.
This year Shaadi.com celebrates its 10th Anniversary, with its 10 years 1 million
matches giveaways all throughout the year, and is proud to have been adjudged the
'Most User Friendly Website' by Juxt Consult as well as the 'Best Designed Website'
by PC World. Shaadi.com is also the first Indian portal to be ISO 9001:2000,
TRUST-e and VeriSign certified. In addition it has been ranked "The most visited
matrimonial website in India" by Ranking.com.

About People Interactive
People Interactive was founded in 1997 to help architect India's Internet landscape.
Today it is one of India's leading Internet companies and boasts brands such as
Shaadi.com, Fropper.com and Astrolife.com. The company is focussed on discovering
and developing scalable Internet business models around communities and classifieds.
It prides itself in being a pioneer of Indo-centric Internet business models and
believes in innovation led growth.
The company won the IT People Award 2007 for Excellence in Information Technology,
and was also awarded the Deloitte Technology India Fast 50 as well as the Red
Herring Asia Top 100 Awards in 2006. People Interactive is a Sequoia Capital backed
company and is part of Anupam Mittal led People Group.

Keywords: Indian Matrimonials, Matrimonials indian, India Matrimonial, Indian
Marriage, Matrimonial India, Matrimony, Shadi



Web Site: http://www.shaadi.com

Contact Details: For further information:
Ms. Kalpana Swamy / Mr. Mihir Bijur Ms. Gunjan Sinha / Jovan Fernandes
Hanmer & Partners People
Interactive (I) Pvt. Ltd
Cell: 09819415983 / 09820293973 Cell: 09820395485 / 09833581392
E-mail: kalpanaswamy@hanmerpr.com E-mail : gunjans@shaadi.com
mihir@hanmerpr.com jovan.f@peopleinteractive.in