Launched
in 1999 in France, and with the majority of its shares held by Europ@web
the industrial group started by Bernard Arnault, Aucland.fr has
progressed in a few short months to become one of the leading on-line
auction sites for the general public in France with about 120,000
objects offered on the site and approximately 26 million pages viewed
monthly. The site offers 18 different product categories: art and
antiques, cars and motorcycles, comic books, jewelry and clocks,
cinema, films and TV series, collections, household equipment,
computing, office equipment and consoles, games, toys and figurines,
books, music, sports and leisure, telephony, stamps, coins and
postcards, TV, hi-fi and video, wine, alcohols and gastronomy, travel,
other categories.
As one
of the leading European on-line auction house, Aucland is present in
France, the UK, Spain, Italy and Denmark and is preparing to open new
subsidiaries throughout the rest of Europe in the course of 2000.
