Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC is a British

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 price comparison website-based business specialising in financial services. The website enables consumers to compare prices on a range of products, including mortgages, credit cards and loans. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange

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 and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index

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History

The business was established in 1993 by Simon Nixon (a student at Nottingham University) and Duncan Cameron as a provider of off-line mortgage information to Independent Financial Advisors under the name Mortgage 2000. and in 1999 launched moneysupermarket.com providing on-line mortgage information since then the business has been developed to provide credit card

Credit card

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 and personal loan information additional brands insuresupermarket.com and travelsupermarket.com have been added.

In June 2007 Duncan Cameron left the business selling his 47% stake to Simon Nixon for £162m and in July 2007 the company was listed on the London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...

. At the time it had a market capitalisation of £843m and, as at 2011,it remains the biggest internet initial public offering

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 in Europe.

Operations

The Company derives its revenues from three main sources:

• Money vertical
• Insurance vertical
• Travel vertical

Criticisms

In 2007 the Guardian newspaper noted that price comparison websites such as moneysupermarket.com rarely include all products on the market and therefore any price comparisons are inaccurate.

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• BeatThatQuote.com
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• Expedia
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• Gocompare.com
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• Kelkoo
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• Moneyfacts
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• Travelocity
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• uSwitch
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• Travelmatch
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External links

• Corporate website
• moneysupermarket.com on Alexa
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