Turnover: 13.27 billion EUR (2023)
Country: Japan
- Rakuten is a Japanese Internet services company founded in February 1997 under the name MDM Inc, which launched Rakuten Shopping Mall in May of the same year.
- The company owns Japan's largest online shopping site, with over 105 million registered users and 44,201 merchants. Its founder and CEO is Hirosho Mikitani.
- In the 2010s the group expanded its business interests outside Japan, notably acquiring the Viber messaging service in 2014.
- In France, the group acquired online retailer Priceminister
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Rakuten and PriceMinister's transformation into the e-commerce cashback leader 19/02/2024
- - 10 million visitors per month to the brand's website in France
- - 70 subsidiaries for the conglomerate
- - 13 billion euros in sales by 2023
- - Purchase of PriceMinister in 2010 for 200 million euros
- - Break-even point for Rakuten France reached by end 2023
- - Amazon became France's leading non-food retailer in 2016
- - Rakuten has 13 million members and 12,000 third-party sellers
- - 150 million items on offer
- - Second-hand products account for almost half of Rakuten France's sales
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