Pixmania
Encyclopedia
Pixmania is a European E-tailer of digital photography and consumer electronic goods. It trades in twenty-six countries through bespoke transactional websites. While primarily focussed on e-commerce Pixmania still maintains 17 showrooms, located in Paris, Boulogne-Billancourt, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, Rennes, Brussels, Milan, Rome, Turin, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Lisbon and Porto.
Pixmania was launched in 2000 as part of the Fotovista S.A.
group of companies. In July 2006, DSG International plc acquired a controlling ninety-percent stake in its parent company, Fotovista
. In addition to Pixmania.com, the business includes mypixmania.com (a site specializing in online digital photo processing), primashop.com (childcare equipment) and e-merchant.com (a B2B service site enabling brands and retailers to run e-commerce businesses across Europe) to name a few operating within the Fotovista Group. Unaudited management accounts for the year ended 30 April 2010 show sales of over €897 million.
and Swedish
consumer television programs for failure to comply with their respective laws of Internet commerce. There are also many sites set up by people unhappy about the service provided including not responding to communications, failure to make deliveries on time and delaying paying back monies owed to clients.
In March 2007, DSG announced it had identified an "extremely sophisticated fraud" at the Parisian warehouse operations of Pixmania. They are estimated to have lost £10m worth of electronic goods.
Pixmania was launched in 2000 as part of the Fotovista S.A.
Fotovista S.A.
The French based FotoVista group was founded as Studio National in 1970 by brothers Pierre and Jean-Claude Rosenblum. Later in its history the brothers decided to group all of their business interests under the name Les Laboratoires Parisiens or LLP .In 2001 the torch was handed over to Steve and...
group of companies. In July 2006, DSG International plc acquired a controlling ninety-percent stake in its parent company, Fotovista
Fotovista S.A.
The French based FotoVista group was founded as Studio National in 1970 by brothers Pierre and Jean-Claude Rosenblum. Later in its history the brothers decided to group all of their business interests under the name Les Laboratoires Parisiens or LLP .In 2001 the torch was handed over to Steve and...
. In addition to Pixmania.com, the business includes mypixmania.com (a site specializing in online digital photo processing), primashop.com (childcare equipment) and e-merchant.com (a B2B service site enabling brands and retailers to run e-commerce businesses across Europe) to name a few operating within the Fotovista Group. Unaudited management accounts for the year ended 30 April 2010 show sales of over €897 million.
Fraud and controversy
In 2006, Pixmania has been featured several times in both DanishDenmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
and Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
consumer television programs for failure to comply with their respective laws of Internet commerce. There are also many sites set up by people unhappy about the service provided including not responding to communications, failure to make deliveries on time and delaying paying back monies owed to clients.
In March 2007, DSG announced it had identified an "extremely sophisticated fraud" at the Parisian warehouse operations of Pixmania. They are estimated to have lost £10m worth of electronic goods.