Intershop Communications

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  • Jochen Moll ( CEO ), Jochen Wiechen (Board) Ludwig Lutter (Board)
  • Herbert May, Chairman of the Board

Intershop Communications AG is a company that offers e- commerce solutions. The company's headquarters is in Jena ( Thuringia) in Jentower, former Intershop Tower.

Main product of Intershop is currently the e -commerce software Intershop Intershop 7 In addition, online marketing and outsourcing of the entire e-commerce process, including fulfillment of. This portfolio is supplemented by consulting and support services. Intershop has indicated that over 500 major customers in various industries, including, for example, Hewlett -Packard, Sun Microsystems, Plus, Otto, the German Telekom and Arcandor (formerly Karstadt Quelle ) and the Australian telecom Telstra.

In addition to the main site in Jena, the company maintains offices in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, San Francisco, Melbourne and Hong Kong. The share of Intershop is listed in the CDAX, PRIMEALL and TECHALLSHARE stock market indices.

History

The Company was formed by the Jena NetConsult Communications GmbH, a commercial enterprise for personal computers, which was founded in 1992 by Stephan Schambach, Karsten Schneider and Wilfried Beeck. The company sales PC to the surrounding communities as well as applications of NeXTStep.

At CeBIT in the spring of 1994 the first version of Intershop software was presented. It was named after the Intershop shops of the former GDR. The mail order company Otto and Hewlett -Packard have been obtained as a strategic partner. The first electronic department store for hardware went online. In 1995, the software " Intershop " online that claims to be world's first fully -functioning e- commerce system. As of 1996, expanded Intershop and built offices in the U.S. and other countries.

On 16 July 1998, the IPO was on the Neuer Markt in Frankfurt with an issue price of 51.13 euros converted. Two years later, on 29 September 2000, the company was first listed on the NASDAQ in New York. At this time - at the height of the dotcom bubble - the company employed more than 1,200 people. The highest price the stock reached on 13 March 2000 at 2105.37 euros. That Intershop was worth 11.3 billion euros, about as much as the industrial company ThyssenKrupp.

The listing on the NASDAQ was reinstated on 17 February 2004. It followed the crash on the all-time low of 0.88 euros per share on December 8, 2005. Among these lows, the stock recovered somewhat.

Intershop was for many years as one of the winners of the new market, but fell in 2001 in the crisis. In July 2003, the company's founder Stephan Schambach fired the CEO. After several changes in the Management Board are launching Ludwig Lutter, Jochen Moll and Dr. Jochen Wiechen the company.

The Hamburg-based company ePages, which was also founded by Wilfried Beeck, took over the rights to the " Intershop 4 " product line.

For fiscal 2008, the company erwirtschafte first time a profit. After a loss of two million euros in the previous year, the profit was 1.5 million euros. Gross profit increased in the first half of 2009 over the previous year by 17 percent to six million euros, resulting in a gross margin of 44 percent ( previous year: 37 percent ) results.

In mid-April, 2010, Intershop a strategic partnership with the U.S. company GSI Commerce known. In June 2011, the Internet retail group eBay had taken over the Intershop shares of around 26.2 percent with the entry at GSI Commerce and became the largest single shareholder. After eBay announced earlier also started with the maker of open source internet shop Magento, Intershop is the second platform of this company.

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