Momox

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momox GmbH

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founding May 2006
Seat Berlin , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Christian von Hohnhorst
Heiner Kroke (Speaker)
Number of employees 1900 (2020)
sales 250 million euros (2019)
Branch Re-commerce
Website www.momox.de

The Momox GmbH is in 2006 Berlin based Re-commerce -Unternehmen for the purchase and sale of used books and media. At the beginning of 2006, Momox was the first German company for re-commerce.

history

Christian Wegner from Fürstenwalde / Spree started out of unemployment in 2004 to implement his business idea, inspired by the flea market , with 1500 euros start-up capital and 20 m² of storage space as an I-AG . After quick initial success on the eBay and Amazon platforms, a start-up company was founded in May 2006 with Momox GmbH and momox.de developed its own purchasing platform for books , CDs and DVDs . The online shop Medimops followed in 2007 . Momox is thus one of the industry pioneers.

In 2010, other investors joined the company, including the venture capital investor Acton Capital Partners from Munich . Company founder Wegner reduced his stake to 67 percent. From 2011 the company became internationally active in France , Austria and Great Britain . In the same year, the storage capacities were expanded with two new logistics centers in Leipzig and Neuenhagen near Berlin in addition to the headquarters in Berlin and a pick-up service was offered.

In 2013 Christian Wegner handed over his position as board member to Heiner Kroke and took care of the expansion of the business model for the fashion sector. In the following year Momox opened the online platform ubup.com (“used but precious”), an online shop for buying and selling branded clothing . Due to the increased international activity in the media sector and the accelerated growth in the trade in branded clothing, sales grew from 150 million euros in 2016 to 200 million euros in 2018 and 250 million euros in 2019.

At the end of 2018, the Norwegian private equity company Verdane Capital made a large investment .

Christian Wegner left the company he founded in August 2019 for previously unpublished reasons. In October 2019 Wegner surprisingly left his company completely and sold his shares to the new majority owner Verdane Capital from Norway.

Trivia

In terms of the number of customer ratings in the Amazon marketplace, Momox ranks first with its German sales channel medimops and fourth with its French sales channel momox_fr .

Locations

  • Headquarters Berlin
  • Logistics center in Leipzig (books and media )World icon
  • Logistics center in Neuenhagen near Berlin (clothing )World icon
  • Logistics center in Stobno , Poland (books and media )World icon

Prizes and awards

  • In 2012 Momox received the Brandenburg Future Prize on the grounds of “innovative foundation with subsequent breathtaking development”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Momox imprint. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Momox makes 250 million. In: Börsenblatt . March 3, 2020, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Galileo - From the unemployed to the second-hand king. June 21, 2019, accessed June 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Alexander Hüsing: "Growth capital in the millions". Acton joins momox.de. deutsche-startups.de, December 2, 2010.
  5. ↑ Galileo - From the unemployed to the second-hand king. June 21, 2019, accessed June 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Momox - a success story from Berlin . ( Memento from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Berliner Zeitung , May 20, 2015.
  7. ↑ momox founder Wegner. August 5, 2017, accessed January 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ momox grows to 150 million euros in sales. In: deutsche-startups.de. January 20, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Momox makes 250 million / re-commerce. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Momox: Re-Commerce market leader receives new investor . fashionunited.ch, September 6, 2018; accessed on February 14, 2019
  11. ↑ momox GmbH - Managing Director: Christian Von Hohnhorst · Executives (3 persons) · No more CEO: Christian Wegner. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Recommerce dealer: Norwegians increase their shares at Momox - founder sells his shares. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  13. ↑ The World's Top Amazon Marketplace Sellers 2018. In: Web Retailer. November 7, 2018. Retrieved June 29, 2019 (American English).
  14. ↑ The algorithm determines the price. Berliner Zeitung, July 25, 2014, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
  15. ^ Regional trip to Leipzig. MOMOX GmbH, Customer Center Leipzig. ( Memento from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Prime Minister Saxony
  16. ↑ The bookseller with the golden hand. Der Tagesspiegel, May 5, 2011, accessed on January 12, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Working in Stettin . Momox
  18. ↑ Winner of the Future Prize 2012: MOMOX GmbH. In: Zukunftspreis-brandenburg.de. Brandenburg GbR Future Prize, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '52.3 "  N , 13 ° 28' 4.3"  E