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]
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 [fr] announced that they were leaving their positions as CEO and COO of Rakuten Europe and general director of PriceMinister. Olivier Mathiot [fr], co-founder and former director of marketing and communications, was promoted to CEO of PriceMinister.
