Jacob Electronics
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1990 |
| Seat | Karlsruhe , Germany |
| Number of employees | 186 (2018, 161 employees, 25 trainees) |
| sales | € 184.8 million (2018) |
| Branch | Online mail order business for hardware and software |
| Website | www.jacob.de |
| As of January 17, 2020 | |
Jacob Elektronik ( JACOB for short ) is an online mail order company for IT (hardware, software) and entertainment electronics based in Karlsruhe. The company had an average of 186 employees in 2018.
history
The company Jacob Elektronik GbR was founded in 1990 in the Durlach district of Karlsruhe by Thomas Jacob as an IT specialist retailer with a regional focus. The opening of the first shop with less than 20 m² of sales area in an old butcher shop in 1992 was followed by the opening of the Jacob online shop in 2000 under the domain www.jacob-elektronik.de.
In 2005 the company headquarters and the shop were relocated to Karlsruhe-Killisfeld and enlarged to approx. 450 m². In 2008 the legal form was converted into a GmbH , Thomas Jacob remained the sole shareholder.
In 2010 the company doubled the retail space to 900 m². In 2012, another move began during ongoing operations to the current address in Karlsruhe-Hagsfeld, which was successfully completed in 2014. There are now approx. 1800 m² of operating space available. The establishment of a corporate customer sales organization in 2010 expanded the business area to include commercial customers and brought further growth.
Current development
In the middle of 2017, the warehouse and logistics were relocated in order to keep up with the steadily increasing requirements and to ensure consistent growth. So the storage area could be enlarged to over 1000 m².
Furthermore, sales branches were opened in Stuttgart-Leonberg in 2017 and in Saarbrücken, Cologne and Frankfurt am Main in 2018. A co-working space is also available in Hamburg.
In 2019, further branches were opened in Leipzig and Hamburg.
Key figures
In 2016, the number of customers was 1.7 million. In the years 2011 to 2017, the average annual sales growth was around 23% (see table). In 2015, more than 100 employees were employed for the first time. In 2016, sales exceeded 100 million euros for the first time.
| year | Sales (in € million) |
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| 2011 | 39.4 |
| 2012 | 50.6 |
| 2013 | 62.9 |
| 2014 | 71.5 |
| 2015 | 90.1 |
| 2016 | 108.9 |
| 2017 | 147.0 |
| 2018 | 185.0 |
| 2019 | 210.0 |
Business areas and products
The product portfolio currently (as of 2018) comprises more than 1,000,000 items from the areas of computers (accessories), mobile communications and entertainment electronics for private end customers. A special service is the support of business customers by the steadily growing team of sales specialists who sell enterprise products such as server and storage solutions, network infrastructure, barcode scanners and PoS terminals.
Awards
2012–2016: “Excellent training” from the Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jacob Elektronik GmbH Karlsruhe: Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2018. Published in the Federal Gazette on January 17, 2020, accessed on July 31, 2020.
- ^ Matthias Hell: Interview with Jacob Electronics boss Thomas Jacob. www.channelpartner.de, May 16, 2014, accessed on January 27, 2017 .
- ↑ IT-Business.de The highlights 2017-2018 page 138
- ↑ Development of the business figures on jacob.de
- ↑ Company profile on jacob.de
- ↑ Award from the IHK Karlsruhe on blog.jacob.de