Emerging Businesses

The BGL Group has grown through innovation and its appetite for embracing new opportunities. This approach has led to two recent additions to the Group's business portfolio:

Founded in 2005 by CEO Jehan de Castet, Courtanet is a French price comparison business. It initially offered price comparison services to independent insurance brokers in France and gained contracts with around half of that market. In 2009, it launched assuremieux.com, a consumer price comparison service for car, health, loan, home and motorbike insurance. In 2010, Courtanet launched creditmieux.com, a price comparison service for consumer loans. The company is Paris based, with 17 staff. BGL, together with Courtanet's founder, now owns the company. The Group's expertise gained from establishing comparethemarket in the UK should help Courtanet to replicate that success in the French market.

A contact centre business, Fusion South Africa was originally launched by the BGL Group to handle calls from UK customers of its in-house brands. BGL then saw the opportunity to market its call centre expertise to external companies, and secured a number of key contracts. Through ongoing growth in external outsourcing, in 2011 Fusion South Africa officially became one of BGL's 'emerging businesses'.

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