www.friendsreunited.com is one of the most visited websites in Britan.
Nearly ten million people log on to the site every day to find out what
old friends are doing now.
Julie and Steve Pankhurst are the husband and wife team behind Friends
Reunited.They met when they were both software engineers in the same
company.
Julie had the original idea for the site in July 1999 when she was pregnat
with her first child.She gave up her job and set up the website as a hobby.
Friends Reunited now has millions of registered members.The company has
spent nothing on advertising - they don`t need the publicity because
everybody`s talking about it.Wor of mouth is their best advert,
Whilst the British are generally quite reserved says Steve.Everyone wants
to know what old classmates are doing.
The couple and their business partner have taken on twelve staff who work
from home.Most of them are mothers who Julie met in hospital when she had
her baby.Julie`s sister works for the company,and a neighbour answers the
emails.
The site has had many success stories - one man has been reunited with his
mother after 53 years.Another was recently reunited with his cat after ten years.
(His friend from university had looked after it.) Many childhood sweethearts
have been reunited and are now back together,some angaged to be married.The
oldest member is a 99-year-old woman who is looking for okl school friends.
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