Pixmania
| Type | JSC mainly owned by Dixons Retail |
|---|---|
| Industry | Electronic commerce and Retail |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Key people | Steve Rosenblum Group Managing Director Emerging Business Division DSG International plc |
| Products | Digital photography, Telecommunications, Information technology, Brown goods, White goods |
| Revenue | €897 Million (2010) |
| Employees | 1400 (2010) |
| Website | http://www.pixmania.com/ |
Pixmania is a European E-tailer of digital photography and consumer electronic goods. It trades in twenty-six countries through bespoke transactional websites. While primarily focussed on e-commerce Pixmania still maintains 17 showrooms, located in Paris, Boulogne-Billancourt, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Rennes, Brussels, Milan, Rome, Turin, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Lisbon and Porto.
Pixmania was launched in 2000 as part of the Fotovista S.A. group of companies. In July 2006, DSG International plc acquired a controlling ninety-percent stake in its parent company, Fotovista. In addition to Pixmania.com, the business includes mypixmania.com (a site specializing in online digital photo processing), primashop.com (childcare equipment) and e-merchant.com (a B2B service site enabling brands and retailers to run e-commerce businesses across Europe) to name a few operating within the Fotovista Group. Unaudited management accounts for the year ended 30 April 2010 show sales of over €897 million.
[edit] Fraud and controversy
In 2006, Pixmania has been featured several times in both Danish and Swedish consumer television programs for failure to comply with their respective laws of Internet commerce. There are also many sites set up by people unhappy about the service provided including not responding to communications, failure to make deliveries on time and delaying paying back monies owed to clients.[1]
In March 2007, DSG announced it had identified an "extremely sophisticated fraud" at the Parisian warehouse operations of Pixmania. They are estimated to have lost £10m worth of electronic goods.[2]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Rosenørn, Søren (2 May 2006). "Dårlig service og fusk hos Pixmania". Copenhagen: DR – Denmark's Radio. http://www.dr.dk/DR1/kontant/2006/05/02102331.htm. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
- ^ Bowers, Simon (30 March 2007). "French warehouse fraud could cost Currys owner £10m". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/retail/story/0,,2046400,00.html. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
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