Bedsearcher seeking investor or buyer

Wednesday, 27 Nov, 2007 0

UK accommodation only specialist Bedsearcher is actively seeking an industry partner to accelerate its growth plans.

The firm, which was founded five years ago, is looking for further investment or partnership.

CEO Jim Mann said he will also consider offers for the business as a going concern.

Bedsearcher maintains a room stock of 1,200 contracted UK hotels, guest houses and bed and breakfasts.

“Bedsearcher has built an excellent foundation with market leading technology, strong sales growth and impressive distribution of properties,” said Mann. “Our unique model has enabled us to be particularly successful with small properties and for the first time to enable the onward distribution of this room stock to wholesalers and agents.

“We will show our first profits in March 2008 and the launch of our XML feed and new agent interface before the end of this year will only accelerate this position.

“Our decision to look for an industry partner is in recognition of the increased value that our niche market dominance will provide. Budget – and in particular – the micro-market properties, currently account for the fastest growing sector of the UK market.”

He added: “The UK budget sector alone is now worth more than £1 billon and with the projected growth, will be worth more than £1.5 billion by 2012. Bedsearcher is uniquely placed to take advantage of this growth and is the perfect bolt-on to established distributors looking to capitalise.

“Our technology was always built with scalability in mind and it will be immensely satisfying to see it in operation on a multi-lingual global format.”

by Phil Davies

Phil Davies

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