310,000+
cruise passengers booked
15,000,000+
car rental days booked
200,000+
motorhome roadtrips booked
A short history of our Republic
2004
2005
2008
2011
2013
2015
2016
2004
2004. The year a new republic is born.
In mid 2004, brothers Paul and Mike Ballantyne hatch an idea around taking niche marketing to the travel sector. They call the company iMall Brands and their first site specialising in car rental goes live in late 2004.
2005
With a successful car rental business building and a small team growing, the decision is made to create a motorhome rental booking website. This launches in late 2005.
2008
Riding the wave of growing cruise popularity in Australasia, we open our first cruise site. Cruisesalefinder.co.nz goes live in New Zealand in December 2008. A month later we launch cruisesalefinder.com.au into the Australian cruise market.
2011
It’s time for a name everyone can pronounce and something we actually like. We re-brand from iMall Brands to Online Republic.
2013
With a growing number of highly talented e-commerce practitioners on board, we decide to share the love and launch Search Republic – a world class digital marketing consultancy.
2015
PredictHQ beta launches. This is our new global business intelligence platform that analyses events happening all over the world, then forecasts how they might affect your business. It’s built on aggregated global scheduled and real-time data which is standardised, enriched and ranked, relevant to the needs of your business.
2016
Online Republic Group is acquired by Australasia’s leading OTA, Webjet. Onwards and upwards!
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