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Showroomprive.com was founded in France in 2006 by Thierry Petit and David Dayan, entrepreneurs with distinct backgrounds in fashion and digital technology. Thierry Petit holds an engineering degree and has over 20 years of experience in the business sector. He previously founded Toobo.com, the first price comparison website in France.[4]
Thierry Petit (born May 12, 1973 in Nevers) is a French entrepreneur, known as the co-founder and co-CEO of showroomprive.com, created in 2006. He is also the vice-President of France Digitale and a business angel engaged in the French online economy.
In the early 1960s, Pierre and Guy Sordoillet, Jean Moll and Jacques Ragageot, supported by furniture dealers in the North and a Bordeaux manufacturer, Charles Minvielle, created a "Carrefour of furniture" by testing a discount formula in the outbuildings of an old farm in the suburbs of Lyon.
In 2017, vente-privee invested 80 million euros and accelerated its R&D and Open Innovation policy. The group rolled out three projects: Veepee Impusle : a Fashion/Tech/Retail start-up accelerator inside Station F, two in-house Lab’innovation in partnership with Epitech and 42 and launched a recruitment plan for 250 IT talents.
In subsequent years, Steinhoff acquisitions included an £86 million investment in the United Kingdom's Homestyle Group, in 2005; and, in 2011, a $1.2 billion investment in French Conforama, Europe's second largest retailer of home furnishings, with over 200 stores in France, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Luxembourg, Italy and Croatia; and, in 2013, the acquisition of Austrian home retailer ...
Roubaix (US: / r uː ˈ b eɪ / roo-BAY, French: or ⓘ; Dutch: Robaais; West Flemish: Roboais; Picard: Roubés) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border.
Species of this genus are easily recognisable by their wasplike appearance although lacking the thin 'waist' of a true wasp.They have long antennæ.
Larva of T. vespa. Tenthredo vespa or saw can reach a length of about 11–12 mm (0.43–0.47 in). These sawflies have black head and thorax. The first segment of the antennae is orange.