moneysupermarket.com saves consumers time and money – both precious commodities, especially during a recession. We believe our price comparison services offer a compelling value proposition to both consumers and product providers, simplifying consumers’ research, improving consumers’ shopping experience and enabling product providers and advertisers to target their marketing spend effectively.

moneysupermarket.com offers a free online service to consumers enabling them to search for and compare a wide range of products across the relevant market, and assists them in finding the product most suited to their requirements. As a result, we are able to offer product providers and advertisers access to considerable volumes of informed consumers who, having compared products, are potentially ready to make a purchasing decision.

Our revenue comes predominantly from fees paid by providers, advertisers and financial intermediaries. moneysupermarket.com’s price comparison services are complemented by rich community features such as user forums and editorial content.

moneysupermarket.com operates across four verticals:

Insurance Vertical

• Insurance has become the cornerstone of the Group’s offering accounting for approximately £77 million, or 45%, of internet revenue in financial year ended 31 December 2008.
• Launched in 2003, the insurance comparison service attracted approximately 25m visitors in 2008. There are 15 channels in Insurance including car insurance, home insurance (buildings & contents), travel insurance and life insurance.
• The insurance vertical offers consumers the ability to compare quotations for home and motor insurance in real time using the Group’s screen-scraping technology. This technology was developed internally by the Group in order to facilitate the launch of the Insurance vertical because the number of variables involved in obtaining home and motor insurance quotations means that it is not practicable to use a market rates team to collate a database of information.
• More recently moneysupermarket.com has worked with contracted providers to retrieve information from their databases using XML technology, enabling deep linking between moneysupermarket.com and contracted providers which is faster and more effective than screen-scraping.

Money Vertical

• Money now makes up approximately £68 million, or 40%, of internet revenue and attracted approximately 35 million visitors in financial year ended 31 December 2008.
• There are 14 channels within money including loans, credit cards, savings, current accounts and mortgages.
• The search results typically compare and rank substantially all providers in the relevant channel irrespective of whether the relevant provider has a commercial relationship with the Group.
• Introduced SmartSearch technology in 2005, which allows consumers to match their credit profiles to the lowest cost products. SmartSearch benefits both consumers and contracted providers.
• Dedicated market rates team.
• PAALeads.com business, a lead generation business established in 2002, to collect details from consumers, with their permission, who were researching mortgages online but who were either unwilling or unable to complete their transaction online.
• moneysupermarket.com Customer Assistance Team – moneysupermarket.com’s in house team of approximately 40 staff who provide mortgage and life insurance advisory services to consumers whose leads are not passed on through PAALeads.com.

Travel Vertical

• The Travel vertical, which trades under the travelsupermarket.com brand, accounted for approximately £19 million, or 11%, of internet revenues and approximately 49 million visitors in the financial year ended 31 December 2008.
• There are nine channels within travel, the core ones being package holidays, car hire, flights and hotels.

Home Services Vertical

• Our newest vertical; Home Services, contributed approximately £7million, or 4%, of internet revenues and approximately 11 million visitors in the financial year ended 31 December 2008.
• The vertical enables consumers to compare and switch utilities (gas and electricity), broadband and mobile phone providers.
• Our Utilities channel is accredited by Consumer Focus.
• In 2008 we launched a Shopping comparison service within Home Services, this now includes the facility for customers to access discount vouchers.

Key Facts

The UK’s leading price comparison website

moneysupermarket.com was ranked by Hitwise (April 2009) as the number one UK finance price comparison website by share of UK internet visits in the Hitwise Banks and Financial Institutions category (excluding non price comparison websites). travelsupermarket.com was in the top six of all travel agency websites in the UK, based on estimated online market share in April 2009.

Generated over £178 million revenues (financial year ending December 2008)

The Group generated revenues of £178.8 million in the financial year ended 31 December 2008.

120 million visitors (financial year ending December 2008)

The Group websites attracted approximately 120 million visitors in the financial year ended 31 December 2008.

Offering 42 price comparison channels

Expanding from our personal finance origins, moneysupermarket.com currently covers 42 channels across 4 verticals

Employing over 450 staff at its headquarters

The Group employs (as at 16^th April 2009) over 450 staff at the headquarters based in Ewloe in Flintshire, North Wales.

6.7 million subscribers and approximately 41,000 forum users

We have over 6 million individual customers registered and subscribed to receive our email alerts. There are also approximately 41,000 users registered for our online community.

The management expertise and experience of each of the Directors and the Company Secretary is set out below:

Gerald Corbett Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Nomination Committee

Gerald was appointed Chairman of the Board in June 2007. He has been chairman of SSL International plc since August 2005 and chairman of Britvic plc since November 2005. Gerald is also a non-executive director of Greencore Group plc and is chairman of the board of trustees of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf. Gerald was chairman of Woolworths Group plc from 2001 to June 2007, chief executive of Railtrack plc from 1997 to 2000 and group finance director of Grand Metropolitan plc from 1994 to 1997.

Simon Nixon Executive Deputy Chairman

Simon co-founded the Group’s business in 1993 and since then has been continuously involved in the management and development of the business including the launch of moneysupermarket.com in 1999 and travelsupermarket.com in 2004. Simon was appointed to the Board as Chief Executive Officer in April 2007 and became Executive Deputy Chairman in February 2009.

Peter Plumb Chief Executive Officer

Peter joined the Group in 2008 as Managing Director, Financial Services and was appointed an Executive Director on 1 January 2009. Peter became Chief Executive Officer of the Group in February 2009. Prior to joining the Group, Peter was the UK managing director of dunnhumby Limited between 2006 and 2008 and was previously general manager of Europe Disney Consumer Products, international director of Dyson Appliances Limited and held commercial roles at PepsiCo International.

Paul Doughty Chief Financial Officer

Paul joined the Group in 2004 as Chief Financial Officer. He has 15 years of commercial finance experience with Motorola Limited, National Power plc and Morse plc. He is a qualified chartered accountant having trained and qualified at Price Waterhouse. Paul was appointed to the Board in April 2007.

David Osborne Marketing Director

David was appointed an Executive Director in February 2009. Between 2005 and 2009, David was UK regional general manager at easyJet. He was previously head of advertising at ING Direct, head of advertising and e-business at Orange and head of brand marketing at Amazon.co.uk.

Graham Donoghue Managing Director, Travel and Insurance

Graham joined the Group in 2008 as Managing Director, Travel and was appointed an Executive Director in February 2009. Prior to joining the Group, Graham was new media director of TUI Travel plc between 2006 and 2008.

Michael Wemms Senior Independent Non-executive Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee

Michael was appointed a Non-Executive Director in July 2007. Michael has been a non-executive director of Galiform plc since 2006 and Inchcape plc since 2004. He was formerly chairman of the British Retail Consortium between 2004 and 2006, chairman of House of Fraser plc between 2001 and 2006 and a non-executive director of A&D Pharma Holdings N.V. between 2006 and 2008. Michael was previously an executive director of Tesco plc between 1989 and 2000.

Rob Rowley Non-executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee

Rob was appointed a Non-Executive Director in September 2007. Rob has been a non-executive director of Liberty International plc since 2004 and is chair of its audit committee and senior independent director. He was formerly deputy chairman of Cable & Wireless plc between 2003 and 2006 and a non-executive director of Prudential plc between 1999 and 2006 where he chaired its audit committee. Rob was previously at Reuters plc from 1978 to 2001 where he was a director between 1990 and 2001.

Darren Drabble Company Secretary and General Counsel

Darren joined the Group as Company Secretary and General Counsel in May 2007. Darren has a corporate and commercial law background originally qualifying as a solicitor with Addleshaw Goddard before working as a senior legal counsel at United Utilities plc.

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