ITV Friends sale gets the go ahead

Finally, it seems that the sale of ITV’s Friends Reunited will be allowed to go ahead following an investigation by the Competition Commission.

The Commission had been asked to check out the deal by the Office of Fair Trading.

The agreement is that the entire Friends Reunited site will be sold to Brightsolid, the owner of findmypast.com and 1911cenus.com, for £25 million, making the group a force to be reckoned with in the genealogy industry.

It seems that the competition commission found that there might be a slight overlapping in the service provided by the firm, but not enough to prevent the sale from going through on the grounds of conflict of interest.

The merging of these three main bodies will in fact make life easier for people searching out their family history.