Egg battering the opposition

The February unique audience of egg.com was 1,100,189, which was a 28 per cent increase on the figure for December 2001 (786,020) and means that Egg has attracted more than one million unique users for the second month in a row running.

Jerry Toher, managing director of Egg UK, said: "Egg has been driving the British financial services industry since launch. This year we acquired the French online bank, Zebank, along with associated distribution deals with French retailers Sephora and La Samaritaine and we extended our alliance with Microsoft, pushing us further into Europe."