Seopa Ltd, the Belfast-based insurtech company behind the CompareNI.com and Quotezone.co.uk has been recognised with a sixth consecutive Deloitte Best Managed Companies Award at a ceremony in Dublin last night, making it a Gold Standard Best Managed Company since 2020.
Seopa has over 3 million users across the UK each year, and over 70 employees across two European cities and counting, with 20 staff recruited and onboarded during the pandemic.
The firm was the first in the UK to create an insurance comparison platform for products such as van and bicycle insurance and now has one of the widest product ranges in the comparison market.
The fast-growing financial aggregator is now Northern Ireland’s largest price comparison website with its brand CompareNI.com, and one of the top six UK brands with Quotezone.co.uk.
Seopa CEO Greg Wilson, Founder of CompareNI.com and Quotezone.co.uk, commented: “We feel very proud to continue to be awarded this important accolade. We have a great team of people and it’s a credit to them and our commitment to an innovative work-life culture, that we’re able to deliver exceptional products for our partners and customers.”
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The company is also growing their award-winning team, hoping to add over a dozen more staff members to both their branches in Timisoara and Belfast before the end of 2022.
Greg continued: “In our latest survey, we asked a sample of 1000 people across the UK about their spending habits, we found nearly half, 42.9%, of people said their bills were over £100 more each month compared to this time last year and a shocking 26.5%, said they were spending more than £250 extra per month. Worryingly, 65% of people said they were unable to add anything to their savings. Whilst we are a business, it’s a priority for us to help people discover savings they didn’t know they had. We help consumers save millions of pounds every year on their household bills and it’s never been as important as it is right now.”
The Deloitte Best Managed Companies Award recognised superior business performance in Irish and Northern Irish privately owned and managed companies - evaluating the calibre of their management abilities and practices. It is the only awards scheme on the island of Ireland that considers a business’ performance from every perspective.
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Now entering its fourteenth year, Ireland’s Best Managed Companies awards programme is led by Deloitte Ireland, in association with Bank of Ireland. The network comprises 139 companies, with a combined turnover of €8.5 billion - employing a total of 40,000 people.
Greg concluded: “My team and I have created an ever evolving, easy-to-use platform that empowers customers to find better deals, as well as supporting our strategic alliances and partnerships with the latest technology to boost sales and traffic volumes. Although it’s a highly competitive market, we are set apart not only by our expertise and continuous innovation, but by our people, who work tirelessly to deliver a world class product and a superior service to our consumers and business partners alike. Our next phase of expansion will be focussed on increasing our product range, system features and ease of use, building comparison panel coverage, and even exploring geographical reach, in our continuous drive for evolution.”
Seopa is currently engaged in a major recruitment drive to aid its plans for growth.
Source: Written from press release
