RetailMeNot
Coordinates: 30°15′58″N 82°15′21″E / 30.26598°N 82.25588°E
Public | |
Traded as | NASDAQ: SALE |
Industry | Online coupons |
Founded | Melbourne, Australia (2006 ) |
Founder | Guy King and Bevan Clark [1] |
Headquarters | Austin, Texas, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | |
Services | Online services |
Revenue | US$ 144.7 million (2012)[2] |
Number of employees | ~500 (2015) |
Website |
RetailMeNot |
Footnotes / references [3] |
RetailMeNot, Inc. (formerly Whaleshark Media) is an American multinational company headquartered in Austin, that maintains a collection of coupon web sites. The company was founded by Guy King and Bevan Clark[4] in 2006.[5] The company owns RetailMeNot.com and VoucherCodes.co.uk, the largest coupon sites in the US and UK, respectively, and acquires coupon sites and third-party software.
RetailMeNot was established to aggregate coupon offers and make them available to consumers. It distributes over 500,000 coupons from over 50,000 stores in retail categories including accessories, automotive, baby products, beauty products, clothing, electronics, furniture, health, home & garden, jewelry, pets, photography, toys and travel.
History
Founded in 2006 by Australian entrepreneurs Guy King and Bevan Clark. The two had previously collaborated on BugMeNot, a site that allowed users to share fake identities in order to avoid website registrations and content paywalls.[6] The company was acquired by Whaleshark Media in 2010.[5] The company raised $300 million in funding from Austin Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adams Street Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, JP Morgan and Google Ventures.[7] Eventually acquiring the already established coupon site RetailMeNot.com from Australia, the company changed its name in 2013 to RetailMeNot.
As Whaleshark Media, the company acquired sites in the US and Europe. After changing its name to RetailMeNot in June 2013 for branding purposes, the company filed an IPO for $230 million in 2013.[8]
Acquisitions
RetailMeNot's acquisitions include:
- RetailMeNot.com, a digital coupon site in the United States
- VoucherCodes.co.uk, a voucher code site in the United Kingdom
- Deals.com in Germany
- ActiePagina.nl, a voucher code site in the Netherlands
- Bons-de-Reduction.com and Poulpeo.com, digital coupon and cash back sites in France
- Deals2Buy.com, a discount offer site in North America.
- ZenDeals.com, a North American coupon site.
References
- ↑ "Guy King and Bevan Clark | Vista Point Advisors".
- ↑ "FoxBusiness". Google. June 18, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ↑ "RetailMeNot Executive Page". RetailMeNot. Feb 10, 2015. Retrieved Feb 10, 2015.
- ↑ "The Founding of Retailmenot". Retrieved 7 March 2014.
- 1 2 http://vistapointadvisors.com/entrepreneurs/guy-king-and-bevan-clark/. Missing or empty
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(help) - ↑ "Revealed: the brains behind Bugmenot". Guy King and Bevan Clark.
- ↑ ARRINGTON, MICHAEL. "Google Ventures Invests In Coupon Startup Whaleshark Media". TechCrunch.
- ↑ RAO, LEENA. "Online Coupon Giant RetailMeNot (Formerly WhaleShark Media) Files For $230M IPO". TechCrunch.
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- Business data for RetailMeNot:
- Reuters