Intershop Communications

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Intershop Communications
Type	Public company
Founded	1994
Headquarters	Jena, Germany San Francisco, CA USA
Area served	Global
Key people	Andreas Riedel, CEO Nader Nemati, Managing Director Americas
Industry	E-Commerce
Products	Software
Employees	233
Website	http://www.intershop.com/

Intershop Communications is a provider of global E-Commerce solutions to high-end large-sized companies.^[1] Intershop’s Enfinity Suite 6 is an E-Commerce Software Platform providing a single solution handling the consumer, business, partner, content, supplier and procurement channels for internet commerce. Intershop has global customers, including Hewlett-Packard, BMW, Sun Microsystems and Deutsche Telekom. Intershop’s European headquarters are in Jena, Germany with its Americas headquarters based in San Francisco, CA.

[edit] History

The company emerged from the NetConsult Communications GmbH which traded personal computers. Intershop was founded in 1992 by Stephan Schambach, Karsten Schneider, and Wilfried Beeck in Jena, Germany. They sold computers to the surrounding region.

In spring 1994 the first version of the intershop software was presented at the CeBIT. The catalog companies Otto-Versand and Hewlett-Packard became strategic partners. The first eCommerce platform for hardware went online.

In 1995 the Intershop software went online as one of the first e-commerce platforms worldwide. From 1998 to 2004 it was listed on the NASDAQ.

As of 2001, Intershop got into a serious crisis. In 2003 Stephan Schambach resigned from his post as CEO. Since 2007 until today (2008) Andreas Ridel is leading the company. It has only about 230 employees left.