European Online Shoe Store Spartoo.com Projects $139 Million Turnover This Year

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Friday, October 21st, 2011
spartoo

We don’t often enough shine a light on Spartoo.com, an online retailer of shoes and footwear.

This ‘Zappos of Europe’ was founded in France by three young entrepreneurs in 2006, and is now active in 20 countries, including United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands.

Today, the company revealed that its internationalization efforts have led to significant growth. In fact, Spartoo.com says it sold more than one million pairs of shoes in Europe in the first months of 2011 (the company offers about 15,000 models and 400 brands).

Read the rest of the story over at TechCrunch Europe.


Company: Spartoo
Website: spartoo.com
Launch Date: 2005
Funding: €42.5M

Spartoo is a European online retailer of shoes and footwear. Created three years ago, Spartoo.com is the European leader in internet footwear sales with over 600 000 regular customers and over 4 million unique visitors (Nielsen, November 2009). In a European market estimated at over €50 billion, Spartoo.com has seen its turnover multiply by 70 over the past three years and has recently been nominated amongst the fastest growing companies in Europe by GP Bullhound Media Momentum. Spartoo operates...

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