NexTag

Nextag is a price comparison site for products, travel, financial services and education. The company is based in San Mateo, California, USA; has offices in London, Tokyo and Gurgaon (India). Nextag founded in 1999, originally as a site at which buyers and sellers could prices for computer and electronics products negotiate. The business model in its present form with the focus on price comparison exists since 2000. Nextag In May 2007, sold a two-thirds share for $ 830 million to the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners, LLC.

Nextag, with 30 million unique visitors per month (July 2011), was named by 0.3 % several times as one of the largest U.S. search provider in Nielsen's "Top 10 Search Providers (U.S.) " list, with a share in the field of search engines. This proportion has declined significantly since the beginning of 2012.

Nextag Germany was founded in 2007. The company operates more price comparison websites in Australia, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Spain and the United States.

Acquisition of guenstiger.de

The website guenstiger.de is a German price comparison site and is operated with about 30 employees of the guenstiger.de GmbH in Hamburg (July 2013). The company was founded by Philipp Hartmann and Torsten Schnoor 1999. Besides guenstiger.de since 2003 also includes the platform Preissuchmaschine.de under the umbrella of the corporate group. 2006 testeo.de be launched, a consumer portal for reviews and opinions. Since the summer of 2011, the guenstiger.de GmbH is part of the U.S. Group NexTag. As part of the merger with the Nextags guenstiger.de group the European headquarters of the U.S. price comparison was moved from London to Hamburg in March 2012. Besides the price comparison guenstiger.de also offering the Nextag Europe for the countries Germany, England, France, Spain and Italy is managed by the Hanseatic city from.