cdp.pl
| cdp.pl
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| legal form | Sp. Z oo |
| founding | 1994 |
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Warsaw , Poland
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| Number of employees | approx. 90 (as of 2015) |
| Branch | E-commerce |
| Website | www.cdp.pl |
cdp.pl Sp. z oo (until 2012 CD Projekt Sp. z oo ) is a Polish distributor of films, music, literature, games, hardware and hobby items, which the company sells through its online shop. The company was originally founded as a games publisher under the name CD Projekt Sp. Z oo. As a result of various restructuring and transactions, these activities were shifted to a new company, which finally took over the previous company name in 2012 and reoriented cdp.pl as a subsidiary. Cdp.pl has been independent of the CD Projekt SA Group since 2014 .
history
Starts as a computer game publisher
The company was founded in 1994 by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński in Warsaw as a publisher under the name CD Projekt. For several years, CD Projekt was the only Polish publisher to publish PC and video games on CDs . For several years, CD Projekt was the only Polish company specializing in the distribution of video games and educational software .
CD Projekt published many top foreign titles in a version fully translated into Polish on the local market and thus achieved a high level of awareness within the local video player community. Most international publishers concentrate on the Western European market and often do without a translation into the respective national languages of Eastern Europe. The titles published by CD Projekt include the Baldur's Gate saga (one of the first games to be fully translated into Polish), Planescape: Torment , Icewind Dale and Heroes of Might & Magic 5 . Many of the texts from games translated by CD Projekt were spoken by well-known Polish actors or celebrities, including Piotr Fronczewski , Bogusław Linda and Daniel Olbrychski .
From 1999 CD Projekt was the largest Polish video game publisher. At the beginning of 2002 the company founded its own studio CD Projekt RED, which focuses on the development of new games. The RED studio developed the games The Witcher (2007) and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011), which are based on the fantasy works of the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski . Also in 2002, CD Projekt expanded to the Czech and Slovak markets, where CD Projekt sold games in Czech translation, and later it became active on the Hungarian market and created its own translation department for international companies.
In 2005 CD Projekt founded the website gram.pl , where users can buy and sell used PC and video games. In early 2008 CD Projekt bought Metropolis Software , one of the oldest Polish development studios (including Gorky 17 and Infernal ). This makes the company one of the largest video game distributors in Europe. In 2009 the studio was closed.
The website Good Old Games was founded in mid-2008 , an internationally oriented online service where older PC games without digital rights management (DRM) can be purchased as downloads . Many well-known game companies such as Codemasters , Epic Games , JoWooD , Ubisoft or Revolution Software have already published their older titles on this platform. CD Projekt also released his new games The Witcher and The Witcher 2 here . Since March 2012, new releases by other developers have also been added to the range, thereby expanding the business model. The portal has been operating under the name GOG.com ever since .
Restructuring and independence
After CD Projekt and its parent company CDP Investment ran into serious financial problems in 2009, the listed Polish IT service provider Optimus SA signed a letter of intent for the takeover of the troubled company. The previous owners of CD Projekt acquired 50% of Optimus SA and were able to keep control of the company. As a result of this reverse takeover in October 2009, CD Projekt became a listed company. On July 25, 2011, Optimus SA changed the company name to CD Projekt RED SA and merged with its subsidiary CD Projekt Red Sp. Z oo in October. On September 21, 2012, CD Projekt RED announced that it would conduct its distribution business under the company name cdp.pl in the future to want. At the same time, a sales platform for games appeared on the Internet at this address. In November 2012, following a resolution by the shareholders' meeting, CD Projekt RED SA finally took over the previous name of its subsidiary and has operated under the name CD Projekt SA ever since
In 2014 board members Michał Gembicki and Robert Wesołowski took over a controlling majority stake in cdp.pl from the parent company CD Projekt, which reduced its stake to 8.29%. CD Projekt stated that it wanted to concentrate on the development and global marketing of computer games. cdp.pl, on the other hand, wants to concentrate on its core market in Poland. In January 2015, the range was expanded to include books, music, consoles, computer hardware, as well as board and card games. To this end, the company revised its e-commerce platform, which now comprised more than 40,000 physical and digital products in the six categories of books, games, music, films, hardware and hobby items.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About CD Projekt ( Memento from December 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ History ( Memento of April 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ CD Projekt buys Metropolis Software
- ^ Thomas "Brother None" Beekers: CD Project Shuts Down Metropolis Software . In: GameBanshee . October 26, 2009. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.destructoid.com/good-old-games-bringing-classic-pc-games-to-an-internet-near-you-94590.phtml
- ↑ http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/optimus-finalises-cd-projekt-takeover
- ↑ a b Our history (company history) ( English ) In: Official company website . CD project. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
- ↑ CDP.pl - początek rewolucji na polskim rynku gier ( Polish ) CD project. September 21, 2012. Archived from the original on May 24, 2015. Retrieved on May 23, 2015.
- ^ Daniel Kłosiński: CD Projekt sprzedaje Cdp.pl - firmę przejmują menedżerowie ( Polish ) Eurogamer.pl. November 27, 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
- ↑ Warsaw Business Journal : CDP.PL transformed into e-commerce marketplace (23 January 2015)
- ↑ Ars Thanea: CDP.pl: Outstanding shopping experience