Internet stores
| internetstores GmbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 2003 |
| Seat |
Stuttgart , Germany
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| management | Managing Director: Hans Dohrmann (CEO), Thomas Spengler (CCO) |
| Number of employees | 396 (annual average, 2017/2018) |
| sales | 222.1 million euros (2017/2018) |
| Branch | Online trade for bicycle and outdoor products |
| Website | www.internetstores.com |
| As of September 30, 2018 | |
The online stores GmbH (proper spelling: internetstores ) is a German specialty mail for cycling - and outdoor products with headquarters in Stuttgart in Baden-Wuerttemberg and three other locations ( Berlin , Lyon and Stockholm ). The company is a subsidiary of the Swiss Signa Retail Selection AG, which belongs to the Austrian Signa Holding and is based in Zurich.
history
Internetstores GmbH emerged from the online shop fahrrad.de founded in 2003 by René Marius Köhler . Since 2010, the company has been striving for internationalization and has published online shops, for example, in France, Switzerland, the Netherlands and other European countries. The Swedish outdoor online shop Addnature has also been part of the group since 2013.
As of 2016, the company sells bicycle and outdoor items in 14 countries, operates 35 online shops and sells seven own brands. After the Swedish financial investor EQT , the Austrian Signa Holding took over the majority of the shares in Internet stores in 2016 .
In 2017, Internetstores took over Probikeshop. In the 2016 financial year, the group employed an average of 400 people.
Portfolio
In addition to the online shop fahrrad.de, the company's portfolio also includes Brügelmann , Bikester, the French Probikeshop, Campz and the Swedish shop Addnature. The range includes around 400 brands and 40,000 products, including several own brands. The bicycle brand Votec and the brand Fixie Inc. have been part of internet stores since 2012. Other brands are Ortler, Serious, Vermont, Red Cycling Products and Axant.
Awards
- German Founder Award 2010
- State Prize for Young Companies 2012 (2nd place), Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg - Förderbank
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual financial statements for the financial year from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018. Internetstores GmbH. In: Bundesanzeiger , December 10, 2019. Accessed April 10, 2020.
- ↑ Jochen Krisch: Karstadt mother also takes over Fahrrad.de Internetstores. In: Exciting Commerce in the 12th year. November 8, 2016, accessed May 5, 2017 .
- ↑ SAZbike: Internetstores takes over Probikeshop . In: SAZbike . ( sazbike.de [accessed on May 5, 2017]).
- ↑ Internet stores : subsidiaries and brands
- ↑ Esslingen-based internet company receives start-up award . In: Esslinger Zeitung , September 16, 2010. Accessed November 6, 2015.
- ↑ Internetstores AG . Deutscher Gründerpreis , 2010. Accessed November 6, 2015.
- ↑ Jan Boris Wintzenburg: The better makers . In: Stern Online , September 14, 2010. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
- ↑ Prize winners 2012 . landespreis-bw.de, L-Bank , accessed on November 6, 2015.