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| Pixmania-PRO | |
| Image:Pixmania logo UK.gif | |
| Type | Distribution on the Internet |
|---|---|
| Founded | Creation in 2004 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Key people | Steve and Jean Emile Rosemblum, Roberto Rubim (President) |
| Industry | Computer hardware |
| Products | Desktops Servers Laptops Peripherals Printers |
| Employees | 30 |
| Slogan | All high tech products for professionals |
| Website | www.pixmania-pro.com |
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[edit] Brief History
Created in 2000, PIXmania is today the largest European electronics goods shop on the Internet. PIXmania owes its success to the availability of its products, its low prices, the speed of its delivery and the numerous other associated services. With more than 1500 employees, Steve and Jean-Emile Rosenblum are today at the head of an entity that has a turnover of 481 million euros and a presence in 25 European countries. The site had 3 500 000 clients at the end of November 2005 and more than 6 million unique visitors per month.
Created in 2004, PIXmania-Pro, managed by Roberto Rubim, is the number one e-commerce site for consumer goods electronics for professionals: Small and medium sized businesses, big accounts and other administrations....PIXmania-PRO responds to the ever increasing requests from companies. Pixmania is a brand of the Fotovista group, the European leader of digital leisure activities. In April 2006, the DSG International group, the 3rd largest worldwide distributor of consumer goods electronics, with more than 100 million clients a year, 1400 stores and 40 000 employees, became the principal shareholder. Fotovista exhibits an obvious maturity and genuine coherence in its activities. Devotion and intuition best characterise this adventure, lead by two brothers who are still motivated by photography.
[edit] Presentation
With more than 25 000 products available in stock at the lowest prices on the market, Pixmania-Pro offers a specialised commercial service and benefits from the logistical power of the Fotovista group. Pixmania-Pro is the only high-tech catalogue to offer such a large selection of: Consumer goods electronics, IT and office products and even a range of customised gifts with company logos. Professionals can benefit from PIXmania’s exhaustive offer with adapted advantages and access to customised services for their needs.
PIXmania-PRO is designed for chartered accountants, liberal professionals, resellers and companies practicing drop shipping. PIXmania-PRO is the only company who has created a site dedicated to professionals and has a team of 30 people working on daily activities. Today, the principal consumers are small and medium sized businesses, large accounts, liberal professionals (health professionals, chartered accounts etc) administrations, company committees and resellers.
[edit] Key figures
Year created: 2004 30 employees 23 Internet sites in Europe 30 000 client accounts
Present in 23 European countries today, PIXmania-PRO will continue developing its presence in its market. By the end of 2006, PIXmania-PRO’s objective is to account for 15% of PIXmania’s turnover to become the European leader in B2B. This growth will come through vertical offers, adapted customised offers for professionals and suited to their purchasing problems: equipment, business gifts, reselling, purchasing in large quantities etc.
[edit] Details of specific aspects of the site
- A large range of products
Pixmania-Pro offers a large range of products in each of the following categories: Consumer goods electronics, cultural, office and customised products along with a silk-screening service, IT and company solution products: HP, IBM, Fujitsu, and Lexmark
- Low prices: Genuine purchasing power
Pixmania-Pro offers a selection of high-tech material at the lowest prices. An online estimate system has been put in place to protect professionals from price increase for a period of 8 days.
- Payment facility
In order to facilitate payments, PIXmania-PRO accepts different settlement methods: Bank Card, wire transfer…
- Adapted delivery
Pixmania-Pro offers excellent service quality with the availability of its products and the speed of its delivery. To adapt to the needs of its clientele, PIXmania-PRO has put into place different delivery systems:
- Standard and express: delivery in 24 to 72 hours after order validation.
- Delivery on skids for large volumes
- Drop shipping service for resellers and and for marketing operations: Direct delivery to final clients
- Next, the opening of Pick Up stores for professionals by the end of 2006
Order follow-up: My office
Pixmania-Pro has created interactive tools for following up on the status of an order. Through the site, it is possible to consult the order history, print an invoice or consult the status of an order…. This system allows you to closely verify the state of the orders from a financial point of view; the state of the estimate and the amount of the saved basket.
My office offers the following features notably:
- Management of user rights from your company account on PIXmania-PRO
- Saving, viewing history and submitting estimates and purchasing lists online
- Follow up, confirmation and payment of orders online
- Management chart of financial state: End of the year discount level, cumulative purchases …
- Verification of address book and contacts
- Modification of personal information (name, e-mail address and password…)
- Update of preferences concerning newsletters and information letters.
