Long Standing Technimove Client Brightsolid buys Friends Reunited

Brightsolid, one of UKs largest media and publishing groups, has announced it purchase of Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc for £25 million.

Friends Reunited is the original social network with 20.6 million members. It was launched in 2000 to put old school friends back in touch with each other and swiftly became a British media phenomenon. Sister site Genes Reunited was launched in 2003 and is currently the UK’s largest family history website with over 9 million members worldwide and 650 million names listed.

A key part of Brightsolid’s strategy is building businesses that link “people and places” on the internet and now, with the acquisition of Friends Reunited Group, it has created Britain’s leading genealogy business by bringing together Genes Reunited and findmypast.com

With the acquisition now complete, Brightsolid have approached Technimove to relocate and merge many of their offices to incorporate their workforce, a project which will be carried out in the Summer of 2010.