RODEN, The Netherlands, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Chris van Tuijl, founder of Relatieplanet.nl, the market leading dating site in the Netherlands, today enters the English-speaking market with TrueDate.com. Simplicity and accessibility, the keys to its success in the Netherlands, will capture the hearts of English daters too.

The Dutch figures prove that the Relatieplanet approach works. With around 1,500,000 members, 500,000 of them active, it is the biggest dating site in the low countries by a long way. The success of Relatieplanet has not gone unnoticed. The publisher of Holland's biggest daily newspaper "De Telegraaf", recently took out a 70% stake in Relatieplanet.nl. The success in the Netherlands was sufficient reason for founder Chris van Tuijl to launch the site in the United Kingdom. Van Tuijl says: "TrueDate.com works the same way as Relatieplanet.nl. Site members write a personal profile and describe themselves and their perfect partner. With our powerful search engine they search for potential partners and other people find them."

He goes on: "Our strength is our simplicity and accessibility. This is borne out by surveys of our users time after time".

The activities of Truedate.com are part of TrueDate

International B.V. The publisher of De Telegraaf has also a share in this company. Its share is 20%: the rest of the shares remain in the hands of the founder, Chris van Tuijl.

For press information or an interview with the founder of Relatieplanet.nl and TrueDate.com you can contact Chris van Tuijl by telephone on +31(0)50-5018080 or by e-mailing chris.tuijl@truedate.com