Pixmania

Infobox_Company
company_name = Pixmania
company_
company_type = Part of Fotovista S.A. Group
Owned by DSG International plc
company_slogan = N/A
foundation = 2000
location = flagicon|FRA Paris, France
key_people = Steve Rosenblum
Group Managing Director Emerging Business Division DSG International plc
industry = Electronic commerce and Retail
products = Digital photography, Telecommunications, Information technology
revenue = €661 Million
num_employees = 1000 (2007)
homepage = http://www.pixmania.com/

Pixmania is a pan-European e-tailer of digital photographic and consumer electronic goods. It trades in 26 countries through bespoke transactional websites. While primarily focussed on e-commerce Pixmania still maintains 16 showrooms, located in Paris, Boulogne-Billancourt, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Rennes, London, Brussels, Milan, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Stockholm.

Pixmania was launched in 2000 as part of the Fotovista S.A. group of companies. In July 2006, DSG International plc acquired a controlling 90% stake in its parent company, Fotovista. In addition to Pixmania.com, the business includes mypixmania.com (a site specialising 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 31^st March 2007 show sales of over €661 million.

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. [cite web
title = French warehouse fraud could cost Currys owner £10m
publisher = The Guardian
date = March 30, 2007
url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/retail/story/0,,2046400,00.html
accessdate = 2007-06-16 ]

External links

* [http://www.pixmania.com/ Pixmania official site]
* [http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/who.html?itag=6653#top Information About Pixmania Online]

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