Moneysupermarket.com
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| Public (: ) | |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Founder | Simon Nixon |
| Headquarters | Ewloe, Wales |
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Key people
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Bruce Carnegie-Brown (Chairman of the board) Simon Nixon (Founder and Executive Deputy Chairman) Peter Plumb CEO |
| Revenue | £281.7 million (2015) |
| £80.5 million (2015) | |
| £63.4 million (2015) | |
| Website | Moneysupermarket.com |
Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC (: ) is a British 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 and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The business was established in 1993 by Simon Nixon, at the time 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 and personal loan information
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 . At the time it had a market capitalisation of £843m, with Nixon releasing £101m and retaining 54.5% of the business.
The Company derives its revenues from three main sources:
The UK website has set up a scheme named the Cheap Energy Club, an example of a service that allows consumers, rather than companies, to become responsible for their own data management. The scheme requires you to input data regarding your current energy tariffs and state the amount of saving for which you would be willing to switch providers. Tariffs that are available are then reviewed every month and you are notified when switching would trigger your target saving.
In 2007, The Guardian noted that for household and car insurance, price comparison websites such as moneysupermarket.com rarely include all products on the market and that price comparisons are consequently incomplete.
In 2010, adverts featured comedian Omid Djalili as the character of "HaggleHero".
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