Priceminister


PriceMinister is a French company that operates an e-commerce website, PriceMinister.com, the fifth largest e-commerce website in France by number of visitors.

History

The company was founded in August 2000, originally located in Paris, at 57 Boulevard de la Villette, in a former zeppelin factory dating from the 1880s. In June 2010, the company was bought by Rakuten, the largest Japanese e-commerce site. The company moved in January 2012 to the former department store ""Au Reaumur" in central Paris. In May 2014, four years after the acquisition by Rakuten, and announced that they were leaving their positions as CEO and COO of Rakuten Europe and general director of PriceMinister., co-founder and former director of marketing and communications, was promoted to CEO of PriceMinister.