Press Release
August 12th, 2005 For Immediate Release MONEYEXTRA CHOSEN AS THE SUN ONLINE’S INTEGRATED FINANCE PARTNER Award-winning personal finance website Moneyextra has been chosen by the website of the UK‟s most popular daily newspaper, The Sun, to be the integrated provider of its proposed new Money channel offering Sun surfers a powerful range of personal financial tools. Moneyextra will provide online financial product comparison services for personal loans, credit cards, mortgages and insurance that will be marketed directly to www.thesun.co.uk‟s four million unique users every month. Moneyextra, with partner Insurancewide.com, will be integral in developing a personal financial services offering for The Sun Online. Moneyextra will be providing comparison services for Personal Loans, Credit Cards and Mortgages as well as a Life Insurance service, together with „Best Buy‟ tables. Insurancewide.com is providing a range of general insurance products, including car insurance, home insurance, travel insurance and pet insurance among others. Amy Copeland, Head of Commercial Development for News Group Digital commented, “Managing money is a key issue for everybody and The Sun Online is keen to offer its readers access to high quality, easy to use and accurate systems for the purchase of personal finance products.” Mark Fleet, Managing Director of Moneyextra, said, “Moneyextra is dedicated to helping consumers make and keep more of their own money. Our online comparison tools are backed up by our own dedicated call centre, staffed by qualified independent financial advisers. We‟re looking forward to helping Sun readers get great financial deals.” For further information, please contact: Robin Amlôt Senior Editor, Moneyextra Tel: 0870 191 5626 public.relations@moneyextra.com
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www.moneyextra.com
Moneyextra is a trading name of Chase de Vere Financial Solutions plc, which is an independent financial adviser and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered in England No: 1723284. Registered Office: 1 King Street, Manchester, M2 6AW. VAT Registration N o. 503 3745 71. A wholly owned subsidiary of AWD Group plc. A Member of AWD Holding AG, Europe’s premier independent financial services group.
Notes to Editors
About News Group Digital News Group Digital is the publisher of The Sun Online and its associated websites including Page3.com, and fantasy football site Dreamteamfc.com. The Sun Online is audited by ABCe and a member of the Association of Online Publishers. It is the most popular newspaper website in the UK (by monthly page impressions).
About Moneyextra Moneyextra (www.moneyextra.com) regularly wins awards. It won the Southeast Region National Business Award 2005 for Best Use of Technology and was short-listed as a finalist for Business Innovation. Moneyextra was named Best Financial Website in the Personal Finance & Savings magazine‟s Readership Awards 2004. Moneyextra is one of the UK‟s longest-established personal finance websites. It is an online service from Chase de Vere Financial Solutions plc. It has 536,000 unique users and delivers 7.8 million page views every month and has 513,000 registered users. As of 1st August 2005, Moneyextra featured: More than 8,000 Mortgages from 108 providers 1,257 Stocks & Shares ISAs from 57 providers 175 Cash ISAs from 95 providers 193 Credit Cards from 64 providers 104 Current accounts from 40 providers 850 Deposit accounts from 136 providers 68 Personal Loans from 58 providers
Moneyextra is a trading name of Chase de Vere Financial Solutions plc, which is an independent financial adviser and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Not all products and services on Moneyextra are regulated by the FSA. About Insurancewide.com: Insurancewide.com is a UK-based internet insurance portal that has won numerous awards. It provides retail insurance to more than 50 web based clients, offering more than 45 online products, giving consumers access to the largest range of insurers in the UK. The portal‟s „Wizard‟s™‟ enable consumers to outline their insurance requirements before being presented with those insurers capable of providing the most suitable product and most competitive quote, significantly reducing the time and cost of purchasing insurance.
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www.moneyextra.com
Moneyextra is a trading name of Chase de Vere Financial Solutions plc, which is an independent financial adviser and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered in England No: 1723284. Registered Office: 1 King Street, Manchester, M2 6AW. VAT Registration N o. 503 3745 71. A wholly owned subsidiary of AWD Group plc. A Member of AWD Holding AG, Europe’s premier independent financial services group.