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Auto Trader
ActiveOperating status — whether the company still runs independently. “Closed” usually means it was acquired, merged, or shut down.🔥 MediumHeat score — how much recent activity & attention the company has (web traffic, news, hiring).📈 Low growthGrowth score — momentum trend across web traffic, headcount and other growth signals. Manchester, United Kingdom Founded 1977 1001-5000 employees For Profit
Auto Trader is a motoring marketplace that helps people to sell old cars and buy new vehicles.
Auto Trader was acquired by BC Partners in 1998 for $260M.
Total Funding
Available in Pro Last Funding
Available in Pro Acquisitions
6
Monthly Visits
Available in Pro Contacts
810
Ticker
AUTO
LSE - London Stock Exchange
Patents
0
12 trademarks
Company Details
Funding & Financials
Pro- Total funding
- Funding rounds
- Last funding
- Last funding type
- Last funding date
- Funding status
- Total equity funding
- Revenue range
IPO & Stock
- IPO status
- Public
- Ticker
- AUTO
- Exchange
- LSE - London Stock Exchange
- IPO date
- Mar 24, 2015
Web Traffic
Pro- Monthly visits
- Global traffic rank
- 6-mo avg visits
- Visit duration (s)
- Pages / visit
- Bounce rate
- Rank change (mo)
Technology & IP
- Active technologies
- 64
- Active products
- 46
- Patents granted
- 0
- Trademarks
- 12
- IT spend
- $101M
Company Info
- Founded
- 1977
- Employees
- 1001-5000
- Operating status
- Active
- Company type
- For Profit
- Org types
- company
- Founders
- 1
- Sub-organizations
- 3
- News articles
- 237
- HQ
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Region
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
- Exit date
- Mar 24, 2015
Signals & Scores
- Heat score
- Medium
- Growth score
- Low
- Trend (7d)
- -0.3
- Trend (30d)
- -0.7
- Trend (90d)
- -1.2
- Last leadership hire
- Apr 10, 2026
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Key People at Auto Trader
Head of Infrastructure
Operations Engineering Lead
Tech Lead Data Engineering
Head of Consumer Engagement (Marketing)
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