Pixmania
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| Pixmania | |
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| Type | Part of Fotovista S.A. Group Owned by DSG International plc |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters |  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 |
| Employees | 1000 (2007) |
| Website | http://www.pixmania.com/ |
Pixmania was launched in 2000 as part of the Fotovista S.A. group of companies. 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.
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 31st 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. [1]
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- ^ French warehouse fraud could cost Currys owner £10m. The Guardian (March 30, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
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