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Active has grown rapidly over the years, always maintaining our core values and mission to enhance the lives of individuals worldwide through technology and marketing solutions that enable and encourage participation. To view key highlights of Active's history, slide the handle over the year.
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1998
- This year marks the official start of the company as the Web portal ActiveUSA.com, providing regional grassroots sports information to recreational athletes.
1999
- ActiveUSA.com merges with RaceGate.com, an online Web portal that provides search and registration for events, online event management services, athlete training tools and community resources. The new company retains the ActiveUSA.com name and is headquartered in California.
2000
- Dave Alberga, former Executive VP of Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch, is appointed president and chief executive officer.
- ActiveUSA.com changes its name to Active.com to reflect its presence in markets such as Europe, United Kingdom, Asia, Australia, Africa and New Zealand. Additionally, the company begins offering league administration tools on the Internet for the recreational sports market.
- Active.com merges with Sierra Digital Inc. and becomes the first to offer a hosted, Internet registration solution for the recreation industry.
- Active.com acquires eteamz.com, an online community for teams, leagues, camps and tournaments with services such as team home pages, online registration and fundraising.
- Active.com processes more than one million transactions for event and league registrations, web publishing and e-commerce this year, a 400 percent increase from 1999.
2001
- The company forms Active Sports Marketing Group (now Active Marketing Group), a full service marketing and promotions agency.
- Active.com selected as a top fitness site by Forbes.com Best of the Web magazine.
- The Active Network, Inc. is created as an umbrella for the company’s increasingly diverse line of products and services.
2002
- Ticketmaster President and Chief Executive Officer joins the board of directors for The Active Network.
- Nearly 20,000 sports camp participants at 35 universities are now using Active.com's online registration services.
- The Active Network introduces RecNet (now ActiveNet), a Web-based, hosted software solution that automates all aspects of recreation administration and offers Internet registration and reservation capabilities.
2003
- The number of teams using www.eteamz.com surpasses one million.
- More than 90 percent of Little League Baseball districts worldwide use The Active Network's Little League Network for Web sites, online registration, data access and other resources.
2004
- Deloitte & Touche names The Active Network the second fastest-growing technology company in San Diego county and 15th fastest-growing technology company in North America.
- The Inc. 500 lists Active as the 99th fastest-growing private business in America, based on four-year average annual sales growth of 283.9 percent.
- Active acquires Class Software Solutions Ltd., a company with 30 years of experience and the leader in recreation and municipal management software solutions.
- The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, serving more than eight million residents, selects software from The Active Network to automate and Web-enable its recreation operations.
2005
- Active launches ActiveGiving.com, an online resource that gives non-profit organizations access to Web tools, provides information on building fundraising programs online and offers contributors a fast, convenient way to donate.
- Active Marketing Partnerships is formed offering municipal customers revenue-generating marketing partnerships.
- Active acquires Tee Time King and launches ActiveGolf.com. Company begins offering online tee time reservations and golf course management software for golf courses.
2006
- Active forms partnership with the United States Tennis Association to provide technology, online tools and marketing services that support the sport of tennis.
- Active makes the Inc. 500 list for the third consecutive year.
- The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 names Active one of North America's fastest-growing technology companies for third year in a row.
- Active rolls out suite of training tools and plans from top trainers with ActiveTrainer.com.
- Active Marketing Group acquires Promote It!, the nation’s largest health club promotions agency.
2007
- Active enters public parks and camping market with acquisition of InfoSperix for $17 million and brings aboard more than 400 new employees. A total of 12 states use the company’s centralized reservations and point-of-sale services.
- Active adds LaxPower.com and CoolRunning.com to its growing list of top sports-related media properties.
- More than 3,000 community organizations use Active’s operations technology solutions.
- Active Marketing Group makes PROMO magazine’s list of the top promotion agencies for the fourth year in a row.
2008
- Active becomes nation's largest provider of event management software following acquisitions of RegOnline and WingateWeb.
- Active acquires HY-TEK Sports Software, the leading software and services provider to over 95 percent of the swimming and track & field clubs, schools and organizations in the United States.
- Opening of London office expands Active’s presence in Europe bringing total number of offices to more than 20 worldwide.
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