How it started
History
Rightmove was incorporated on 16 May 2000 and it launched its website, rightmove.co.uk, in July 2000. Rightmove's founding shareholders were Countrywide plc, Halifax, Royal & Sun Alliance and Connells.
Rightmove was first listed on the London Stock Exchange on 15 March 2006 at which time it became Rightmove plc.
In 2007 Rightmove bought 67% of Holiday Lettings Limited. In May 2008, HBOS, one of the founding investors, sold its stake in Rightmove. According to Forbes, Rightmove operates on a two-sided model which serves a vast "audience" for property listings on one side and 20,000 advertisers of available properties on the other side.
Peter Brooks-Johnson, who joined Rightmove in 2006, became chief operating officer in 2013 and was promoted to chief executive officer in 2017.
In May 2016, Rightmove was ranked as the world's most innovative company by Forbes. In August 2016, the company acquired The Outside View, a London based predictive analytics company.
From Wikipedia’s article on Rightmove, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2