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Compare the Market Limited
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Duncan Anthony PainterDirector · since 2024
- Behzad Ahmad ArbabzadahDirector · since 2023
- Andrej BabacheDirector · since 2023
- Murray Alexander RaisbeckDirector · since 2022
- Richard HoskinsDirector · since 2022
- Timo Alexander Bernd BoldtDirector · since 2021
- Mark Mccracken BailieDirector · since 2020
- Alison Deborah HewittDirector · since 2020
- David John OsborneDirector · since 2018
- Hannah Yasmin ChouikhiSecretary · since 2022
Previous officers 13
- Seamus Declan Keating 2021-2023 View profile
- Inaki Echave Larranaga 2021-2022 View profile
- Katherine Hae-Eun Chung 2021-2023 View profile
- Lord Jitesh Kishorekumar Gadhia 2021-2025 View profile
- Thomas William Chambers 2020-2022 View profile
- Inaki Echave 2019-2020 View profile
- Jonathon Iain Carlton Brown 2018-2021 View profile
- Mark Andrew Allan 2018-2020 View profile
- Matthew Oliver Donaldson 2017-2020 View profile
- Dominic James Platt 2017-2023 View profile
- Fungwa Mawarire 2022-2022 View profile
- Julian Charles Brown 2018-2022 View profile
- Paul Christopher Waters 2017-2018 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- Incorporated
- 23/02/2017
Ownership
Owned by (1) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.
- BGL Group Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting · notified 2017-02-23
Group
- Compare the Market Limited
is controlled by BGL Group Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting · notified 2017-02-23 · source: Companies House PSC register - BGL Group Limited
is controlled by BGL (Holdings) Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting · notified 2016-06-30 · source: Companies House PSC register - BGL (Holdings) Limited
is controlled by BHL (UK) Holdings LTD
Evidence
active 50-75% shares, 50-75% voting · notified 2016-10-18 · source: Companies House PSC register - BHL (UK) Holdings LTD
is controlled by Stephen Klinkert
Evidence
ceased significant influence (trust) · notified 2016-04-06, ceased 2018-11-08 · source: Companies House PSC register
Ultimately controlled by Stephen Klinkert.
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Financials
- Net assets
- £292,300,000
- Total assets
- £39,100,000
- Employees
- 737
- Turnover
- £602,000,000
- Profit/loss
- £177,300,000
Filed as Full accounts.
Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-06-30. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
9 directors on the board
- Alison Deborah Hewitt Director · appointed 2020
- Timo Alexander Bernd Boldt Director · appointed 2021
- David John Osborne Director · appointed 2018
- Mark Mccracken Bailie Director · appointed 2020
- Andrej Babache Director · appointed 2023
- Richard Hoskins Director · appointed 2022
- Behzad Ahmad Arbabzadah Director · appointed 2023
- Murray Alexander Raisbeck Director · appointed 2022
- Duncan Anthony Painter Director · appointed 2024
Directors past 6 years
- Alison Deborah Hewitt Director · appointed 2020
- David John Osborne Director · appointed 2018
- Mark Mccracken Bailie Director · appointed 2020
First-time vs portfolio directors
Portfolio (9)
- Alison Deborah Hewitt Director · appointed 2020
- Timo Alexander Bernd Boldt Director · appointed 2021
- David John Osborne Director · appointed 2018
- Mark Mccracken Bailie Director · appointed 2020
- Andrej Babache Director · appointed 2023
- Richard Hoskins Director · appointed 2022
- Behzad Ahmad Arbabzadah Director · appointed 2023
- Murray Alexander Raisbeck Director · appointed 2022
- Duncan Anthony Painter Director · appointed 2024
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 10636682
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private Limited Company
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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