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Revision as of 22:20, 21 July 2018
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| Industry | Online wine retail |
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| Founded | San Francisco, California, 1998 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Website | wine.com |
Wine.com is a San Francisco based online wine retailer that offers the largest selection of wines in the world. Wine.com sells over 2 million bottles per year, with a stock of more than 17,000 different bottles of wine, shipping throughout the United States.[1]
History
The company now known as Wine.com was originally founded as Virtual Vineyards by Robert Olson in Los Altos, California in 1994 with co-founders Master Sommelier Peter Granoff[1], and Information Architect Harry Max. Virtual Vineyards sold its first bottle of wine online via its custom-coded, secure, on-line shopping cart January 24, 1995 and into full product a couple of weeks later[2]. The current Wine.com business was founded by Mike Osborn in Portland, Oregon as eVineyard in 1998.[3] In 1995, David Harmon founded wine.com and in 1999 sold the information site Wine.com to Virtual Vineyards for over $10,000,000. In 2000, VirtualVineyards.com and WineShopper.com merged under the Wine.com moniker.[4] In the spring of 2001, eVineyard purchased the assets of the combined business prior to their bankruptcy and became known as Wine.com.[5] After being acquired, Wine.com moved its corporate offices to San Francisco, CA.[6] In 2006, Rich Bergsund joined Wine.com as CEO, seeing the company through a financial turnaround.[7] According to Internet Retailer, the company has grown to become the biggest online wine retailer in the United States.[8] Wine.com is majority owned by Baker Capital, a New York–based private equity firm.[9]
In 2010, Wine.com launched WineShopper, a members-only website owned and operated by Wine.com. WineShopper is an "online flash sales site that features deals on limited quantities of wine for up to 72 hours."[10]
Mobile Applications
- In December 2009, Wine.com launched an iPhone application developed by Wine.com’s iPad app developer-partner Marshall Monroe Magic.[2]
- In November 2010, Wine.com launched an iPad application, featuring a dashboard to view thousands of wine labels, including an interactive geo-location tour of where the wine was produced.[3]
- In November 2011, Wine.com released a mobile site.[4]
References
- ^ "Wine.com Raises $15M Growth Funding, Launches New Site and App". WineBusiness. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "iphone.tmcnet.com/topics/iphone/articles/118472-winecom-announces-free-app-ipad.htm". TMCnet. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ "Wine.com for iPad now Available". PadGadget. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
- ^ "Better Late Than Never: Wine.com Gets A Mobile Website". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
