BeatThatQuote.com is a British

United Kingdom

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 price comparison site

Price comparison service

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 specialising in personal finance products.

History

BeatThatQuote.com was launched by John Paleomylites in February 2005 based in London's Kentish Town

Kentish Town

Kentish Town is an area of north west London, England in the London Borough of Camden.-History:The most widely accepted explanation of the name of Kentish Town is that it derived from 'Ken-ditch' meaning the 'bed of a waterway'...

., by 2006 it was awarded the 'young company of the year' by the CBI

Confederation of British Industry

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/Real Business Growing Business Awards. and in the financial year 2006 to 2007 the company posted revenues of £7.8 million.

BeatThatQuote.com was ranked by Nielsen Online

Nielsen Online

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 as the fastest growing UK website in 2007, received around 2.5 million unique visitors per month in June 2008. and was acquired by Google

Google

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 in March 2011 for £37.7 million.. BeatThatQuote.com was penalised by Google for search engine spamming the day after it acquired it..

Affiliations

As well as operating their own website, BeatThatQuote.com also provide the services for other comparison websites such as MSN Compare

MSN Money

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 and ArgosCompare.co.uk financial comparison websites.

See also

• Confused.com
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• Energyhelpline
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• Gocompare.com
  Gocompare.com
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• Moneysupermarket.com
• uSwitch
  USwitch
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