I tried some different things, like upgrading websites. I couldn’t find a job, so I stopped looking and thought I’d do something on my own – be self-employed. It’s a big city and I thought there must be some work for me there, but it wasn’t to be. I started to search for a new job in Berlin. So in 2003 I went to Berlin to live with my girlfriend. I was at a company for about one year, but then I lost my job. What did you do before you started your ecommerce business?Ĭhristian: I was a wood worker, and I also trained to be a buyer and seller.

Many thanks to Marc Jarrett of Emjay Consultancy for his help with the interview and translation. Last week Wegner generously spared the time to talk to me about how his business has grown over the years. So where did this ecommerce giant come from?Īctually the company started from nothing only twelve years ago when Christian Wegner, then unemployed, sold a few second-hand books on eBay. They have two warehouses, with about 70,000 square meters of space (750,000 square feet) and 1,000 employees. That’s 112 million dollars, or 73 million pounds. The company’s international selling accounts feature four more times on our list of the world’s top Amazon sellers, and are again on the eBay list with their fashion brand ubup.īut what does that translate to in sales? Well, this year Momox has reached 100 million Euros in annual revenue. That’s an amazing achievement on it’s own, but there’s more.

Momox is also the third largest seller on eBay, by the same measure. You might never have heard of Momox, but this German company is the world’s largest seller on Amazon, under its brand Medimops, by volume of feedback received.

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