Priceminister

PriceMinister is a French company that operates an e-commerce website, PriceMinister.com, the fifth largest e-commerce website in France by number of visitors.[1]

PriceMinister
Type of businessSubsidiary
FoundedAugust, 2000
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
Key peopleOlivier Mathiot (CEO)
Justin Ziegler
IndustryElectronic commerce
ProductsBooks, music, video, games, computing, high tech,Fashion, Home, food.
Employees250
ParentRakuten
URLwww.priceminister.com
Launched2000

History

The company was founded in August 2000, originally located in Paris, at 57 Boulevard de la Villette, in a former zeppelin factory dating from the 1880s. In June 2010, the company was bought by Rakuten,[2] the largest Japanese e-commerce site. The company moved in January 2012 to the former department store ""Au Reaumur" in central Paris. In May 2014, four years after the acquisition by Rakuten, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet and Pierre Krings announced that they were leaving their positions as CEO and COO of Rakuten Europe and general director of PriceMinister. Olivier Mathiot, co-founder and former director of marketing and communications, was promoted to CEO of PriceMinister.

See also
  • Consumer-to-consumer electronic commerce

References
  1. similarweb.com
  2. Wauters, Robin. "Rakuten to acquire France's PriceMinister for approximately €200 million". social.techcrunch.com.
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