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- Vend Marketplaces ASA develops and operates digital marketplaces connecting buyers and sellers across mobility, real estate, jobs, recommerce and delivery segments; offers online classifieds for vehicles including used car marketplaces and solutions for consumers to sell cars to dealers via brands such as FINN in Norway, Blocket in Sweden, Bilbasen and DBA in Denmark, Oikotie and Tori in Finland, Bytbil, Qasa, Nettbil, AutoVex and Wheelaway; provides real estate platforms for buying, selling and renting homes including HomeQ; operates jobs marketplaces linking seekers with recruiters; supports recommerce for second-hand goods with door-to-door deliveries; and manages ecommerce parcel deliveries, media distribution, fresh baked goods, food and flowers directly to doors. The company targets consumers and businesses in the Nordics, serving sectors such as automotive, housing, employment, sustainable reuse and logistics. Vend Marketplaces ASA was founded in 1839 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Formerly known as Schibsted ASA, it rebranded from Schibsted Marketplaces to Vend Marketplaces ASA in May 2025 following the prior separation from Schibsted Media in June 2024; in September 2025 signed a binding agreement to sell its financial services marketplace Lendo Group, including Compricer and Mybanker, to Clar Global AB for an enterprise value of approximately NOK 1 billion with completion expected in Q1 2026; launched its sale process for the Delivery segment in Q3 2025; initiated multiple share buyback programmes including a new one in Q4 2025 and earlier tenders up to NOK 1 billion per share class; and expanded dealer packages in Mobility to Sweden in February 2026 while harmonizing models in Denmark to pay-per-ad.