| Press Release - Muponda Acquires Zimdaily.com |
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| Tuesday, 16 December 2008 | |
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UK - LONDON - Entrepreneur Gilbert Muponda has acquired a 50 % stake in ZimDaily Media, which runs Zimbabwe’s top daily online news site ZimDaily. ZimDaily Media runs Zimbabwe’s other leading online brands including www.zimface.com and Zimbabwe’s number one online radio www.zimnetradio.com. The ZimDaily Media Group has been immediately strengthened by the addition of www.zimtelegraph.com a reliable, focused and in depth news website targeted at anyone serious about news. The Zimbabwe Telegraph is partially going live today and will be fully launched this weekend. The acquisition by Muponda has resulted in the creation of a new media group with 15 web sites, making it a formidable advertising channel and infrastructure, one of the biggest such operations in Africa.In 2001 Gilbert Muponda led a team of three young professionals from the financial services industry to set up ENG Capital (PVT) LTD, then Zimbabwe‘s fastest growing Financial Institution. The firm was set up to serve a niche market in provision of advisory services, asset management, corporate finance and private equity. He was the first victim of the Anti-graft political campaign meant to silence and eliminate independent businesses deemed undesirable by the Government of Zimbabwe in 2003-4. ENG was closed and its assets parceled out to politically well connected individuals. He is currently CEO of GMRI Capital which he founded in 2007. The new group will operate under the 3MG Media Limited brand. ZimDaily founder Munamato Maisva becomes the Operations and Technical Director and Gilbert Muponda will be Chief Executive Officer. Munamato holds BEng Degree in Telecommunications, Media and Internet Engineering, Msc in Computer and Internet Security and works for the World's leading computer Software company. They will both sit on the Group’s Editorial Board. The 3MG Media Limited business team represents more than 50 years in the fields of journalism, investment banking, advisory services, accounting, marketing, advertising and information technology.
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| Last Updated ( Thursday, 18 December 2008 ) |