Kelkoo
Company Information
About
The Kelkoo Company
Kelkoo.com
was founded in 2000, following mergers with Zoomit, Dondecomprar
and Shopgenie. Within 2 years of launching, Kelkoo became Europe's
largest e-commerce website after Amazon and Ebay and the largest
e-commerce advertising platform both in the UK and Europe.
Kelkoo now operates in 9 European countries and receives over 32
million unique users monthly (12 million in the UK) from users across
Europe(1). Kelkoo has been profitable since Q4 2002.
Kelkoo
is a comprehensive shopping search engine, helping shoppers to compare
prices and product features on over 1 million products(2) and save
on major brand names like Calvin Klein, Gucci, HP, Dell, Fuji, Black
& Decker, Bosch, Smeg, GHD, Nokia, Aston Martin and Nike. Our
mission is to help UK consumers find great shopping value online,
fast.
In
the UK, 41 of the top 50 retailers currently advertise on Kelkoo.
Amongst Kelkoo's more than 1,500 UK advertising clients(3) are leading
online names like Amazon, Dabs.com, Play.com, Ebookers, Yoox.com,
Figleaves, Opodo and Lastminute, as well as big high street brand
names such as Comet, Dixons, John Lewis, Marks&Spencer, Carphone
Warehouse, WHSmith and Tesco.
Kelkoo was nominated by Nielsen/Netratings one of the 10 most influential
websites of the decade, and received praise by the BBC Online for
"paving the way for online shopping".
In
the recent SearchEngineWatch.com Awards for outstanding achievement
in online searching, was the only European company to be mentioned
in the awards, receiving an honourable mention in the Best Shopping
Search Engine category. In September 2003 Hitwise announced that
Kelkoo was the number 1 UK website, based on visits to the Shopping
& Classifieds - Rewards and Directories category.
Kelkoo has operated the shopping channels of major Internet players
like MSN across Europe (since June 2003) and Yahoo in France, Spain
and Italy.
In
the UK, Kelkoo has a network of 4,000 affiliates as well as agreements
to power the shopping channels of EasyValue, which is part of the
EasyGroup; ANM's Femail and ThisisLondon; Telewest's Blueyonder
site, GMTV and Eurosport as well as the Travel channel of Dabs.com.
Kelkoo
UK
Tuition House
27/37 St. George's Road
Wimbledon
London
SW19 4DS
United Kingdom
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