Dynamis Plc was formed in 1995 by Andrew and Marcus Markou as a web publishing business to complement a family publication "Businesses and Premises For Sale".
BusinessesForSale.com, originally operated as a free bulletin board service and acted as an extension to the magazine.
The magazine ceased publication in 1998 but the website continued to flourish independently. By the summer of 1999 the site had become the largest global database of businesses for sale spanning over 100 countries and attracting many thousands of buyers and sellers daily.
In March 2000, £1.7m of angel funding was raised to commercially develop BusinessesForSale.com and other related web titles in the B2B sector.
Launched in December 2001, FranchiseSales.com helps franchisors recruit genuine franchisees. The site hosts over 800 franchise opportunities across the globe.
The two websites flourished at a time when many other websites did not. This is a testament to the company and a reflection that Dynamis had successfully leveraged online media to connect business entrepreneurs.
2006 saw Dynamis officially celebrate 10 years online. We also launched BusinessInACan.com and Ubops.com this year. Both sites are currently in their beta launch phases. These sites respectively deliver networking and advice to the business start-up community and provide an online marketplace for the exchange of business opportunities. The official launches of these sites will be Spring 2007.
We are a privately held company located in central London. As well as our publishing arm we also provide online technical services.
Our technical expertise has placed us at the forefront of providing online classification services with search engine optimisation to our clients. We provide fully managed solutions that power online classifieds sections to such sites as FT.com, Telegraph.co.uk and Fish4.co.uk; thereby realising the online publishing objectives of many media companies.