bol.com
bol.com bv is a Dutch internet bookshop based in Utrecht . It started in 1999 and is now the largest online bookseller in the Netherlands by its own account .
According to the company, 1.5 million Dutch and English-language book titles, CDs, DVDs, videos, software and games are offered. Used books have also been available since 2005.
In the 2007 financial year, sales of 171 million euros were achieved, which represents an increase in sales of 60% over the previous year. In 2007 alone eight million books, CDs, DVDs, software and small electronics were sold. According to the company, more than 17 million books have been ordered via bol.com since the start (as of late 2008). In 2008 bol.com achieved a turnover of 224 million euros and had around two million customers. Bol.com now has a turnover of 2.1 billion euros (fiscal year 2018).
history
The company bol (on the one hand the name recalls the original company name BOL as an abbreviation for Bertelsmann Online, on the other hand it is the Dutch word for "ball") was founded in 1999 by the Bertelsmann group and belonged to its DirectGroup division . Due to heavy operating losses, this division had to be restructured and loss-making holdings sold. After the German national subsidiary of bol had previously been closed and later sold, in the summer of 2003, under the direction of Weltbild manager Klaus Driever, a joint venture between Holtzbrinck networXs GmbH ( risk capital company of the German publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck ) and the German publishing group Weltbild bought and a fund of T-Venture Holding GmbH (via T-Online International AG a risk capital subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG ) the then deficit Dutch national company of bol in equal parts. The company's management took a stake in the company and continued to run the business on its own responsibility.
In December 2006, the T-Online fund sold its shares to the Georg von Holtzbrinck and Weltbild publishing groups. Since then, bol.com has belonged equally to the Georg von Holtzbrinck and Weltbild publishing groups. In April 2009, Holtzbrinck and Weltbild sold their shares in the investment fund Cyrte Investments . Cyrte Investments was founded in 2000, originally under the name Talpa Capital, as a family office by television producer John de Mol and has been owned by the Dutch insurance group Delta Lloyd , which is largely owned by the Aviva group, since 2007 . In 2012 bol.com was taken over by the Dutch retail group Ahold (Albert Heijn Holding).
logo
For historical reasons, bol.com has the same brand logo as bol.de , bol.at and bol.ch, which are now all brands of buch.de internetstores AG , but whose largest single shareholder was the book retail chain belonging to Douglas Holding AG before Bertelsmann Multimedia GmbH Thalia is.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b bol.com / Diensten en voorwaarden / Klantenservice. In: website of bol.com bv . Accessed on November 16, 2010 (Dutch): "Bol.com is de grootste mediawinkel van Nederland."
- ↑ Holtzbrinck Ventures / BOL.com BV In: Website of the Holtzbrinck Ventures GmbH. Accessed November 16, 2010 : "Private customers and companies can choose between 1.5 million Dutch and English books, CDs, DVDs, videos, software and games around the clock."
- ↑ Holtzbrinck and Weltbild report record success with internet participation bol.com. In: boersenblatt.net. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, January 21, 2008, accessed on November 16, 2010 : “The joint online media shop of Holtzbrinck and Weltbild bol.com was able to increase its sales in the Netherlands by 60 percent compared to the previous year and the 2007 financial year with record sales of 171 million euros (2006: 107 million euros). "
- ↑ Nieuwe website bol.com foundation onder verdere groei. (No longer available online.) In: website of bol.com bv September 29, 2008, archived from the original on July 12, 2010 ; Retrieved on November 16, 2010 (Dutch): "Are de start in maart 1999 van bol.com in Nederland zijn meer dan 17 miljoen bestelde producten afgeleverd." Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Internet book trade: Holtzbrinck and Weltbild sell their shares in bol.com. In: boersenblatt.net. Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, April 24, 2009, accessed on November 17, 2010 .
- ↑ Bol.com cracks the second billion in sales at 2.1 billion euros. January 26, 2019, accessed May 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Press release: T-Online Venture, holtzbrinck networXs and Weltbild acquire Dutch company Bol.com. (No longer available online.) In: Website of Verlagsgruppe Weltbild GmbH. May 7, 2003, archived from the original on June 13, 2013 ; Retrieved November 17, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ BOL.com BV In: Website of the Holtzbrinck Ventures GmbH. Accessed on November 17, 2010 : “The company was acquired by Bertelsmann in summer 2004 together with T-Venture and the Weltbild publishing group. The company's management got a stake in the company and continued the business independently. "
- ↑ Portfolio: bol.com. In: Website of T-Venture Holding GmbH. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008 ; accessed on November 17, 2010 : "In December 2006, the T-Online Venture Fund sold its shares to the Holtzbrinck and Weltbild publishing groups."
- ↑ Achim Sawall: TV producer John de Mol buys Bol.com Holtzbrinck Networks and Weltbild publishing group get out. In: heise.de. Klaß & Ihlenfeld Verlag GmbH, April 24, 2009, accessed on November 17, 2010 .
- ↑ Ahold acquires leading online retailer bol.com ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ahold press release February 27, 2012
