Smile-on.com announces electronic placement of shares for dental professionals.

London, Tuesday 14/11/2000 - Smile-on.com, the leading UK site for dental practitioners, today announces that it is offering dental professionals the opportunity to subscribe for shares in the company through EO’s online service. 

EO’s online service will allow dentists to participate with less fuss and expense than traditional methods. Smile-on.com expects to raise between £750,000 and £2 million which will be used for funding the on-going operations and further development of their services.

Shareholders in Smile-on.com will receive additional benefits including discounts on dental educational programmes and dental consumables from Smile-on.com’s ‘E-store’. They will also be eligible for free access to two Smile-on.com dental events each year.

Noam Tamir, CEO of Smile-on.com, explained
“It was important for us to find an appropriate means of offering the dental community an opportunity for becoming shareholders in the business. EO offers a straightforward method of subscribing for shares. It also underlines the importance of the Internet in creating new ways of communicating and operating for businesses.

We were keen to give dental professionals who become a part of Smile-on.com additional benefits so that we are all able to share in the company’s success.”

The offer period for shares in Smile-on.com runs from Monday 13th November 2000 to December 15th 2000. Smile-on expects shares to be subscribed to by dental professionals, institutions and retail investors from across EO’s registered members database.


Notes for Editors

About Smile-on.com
Smile-on.com (www.smile-on.com) was created in January 2000. The smile-on.com team are all experienced professionals within the dental, education, Internet and e-commerce industries. They have launched a powerful, user-friendly website that allows the dental profession to easily source information, acquire educational material and exchange ideas. The advisory board consist of eminent members of the dental community who are committed to developing the future of dentistry.

Resources available for professionals include interactive courses for CPD using live and archived material, cost-effective purchase of consumables and capital equipment at substantially reduced prices, links to, and between, all professional groups within the dental profession, recruitment services, professional news and information, research, and a catalogue of new products. 

Smile-on is a partner company of Brainspark, the AIM listed Internet incubator. 


About EO plc 

· EO plc, which is regulated by the SFA, is an on-line share distribution platform for IPO`s and private placements. EO works in partnership with investment banks and venture capital firms to distribute equity product to retail investors on a pan-European basis. 
· EO benefits from a partnership with GlobalNetFinancial.com. GlobalNetFinancial.com is Europe`s largest financial information portal, with some 30 million page views per month and investment sites in the US, UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Denmark. EO also benefits from exclusive deal flow from NewMedia SPARK, Europe`s largest quoted early stage technology investment Company. 
· EO has established partnerships with UBS Warburg and Nobles. Under the terms of these partnerships, the investment banks will make appropriate equity product offerings available to retail investors via the EO.net site. 
· EO provides moneyextra.com, a leading personal finance website, with an IPO service and has a partnership with hemscott.NET to provide users with direct access to investment opportunities at www.eo.net. 
· EO is expanding its pan-European reach and has recently announced partnerships with Continental European online IPO providers, more.de in Germany and EuropeOffering.com in France. 
· Through its existing combined networks and partnership arrangements, EO now reaches an audience of over 16 million online users throughout the UK and Europe.


Investors should register free and without obligation at www.eo.net


Enquiries
Smile-on.com – tel: 020 7843 6869
Noam Tamir
Laura Smithson


Citigate Dewe Rogerson – tel: 020 7638 9571
Martin Jackson
Charles Vivian