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Groupon is a public deal-of-the-day type website providing gift certificates to the users, which can be used at the national or local companies . It was established in November, 2008. The headquarter of the company is located in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. The Founders of the company were Andrew Mason, Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky. The owner company of Groupon is Groupon, Inc.
History
It was initially launched with Chicago as its focus marked and soon was made available for Toronto, Boston and New York City. It was in November 2008 that the company launched its campaign website named ThePoint.com and its first offer was for a pizza restaurant in Chicago. There were a number of deal-of-the-day websites, which were purchased by the company such as MyCityDeal of Europe on 17th of May, 2010, ClanDescuento on 22nd of June, 2010, Qpod.jp of Japan and Darberry.ru of Russia, on 17th of August, 2010, Beeconomic.com of Singapore on 30th of November, 2010 and SoSasta.com of India in January 2011, which was renames as Crazeal. Later the group also overtook the GroupsMore.com of Malaysia and uBuyiBuy in Hong Kong. The company also overtook the Ideeli as of January 2014 and thus entered the fashion business.
Description
There were about 150 North American markets as well as 100 markets in South America, Europe and Asia, which were covered by Groupon as of October 2010. The website has about 35 million users, which are registered with it. It is currently serving about 48 countries of the world and the total count of the employees of the company is more than 11,471. The company acquired a social shopping service called Mertado in January, 2012. The company launched its VIP Membership program on 20th of February, 2012 and the company charged thirty dollars from the customers as the membership fee.
Contact Details
For other information about Groupon, call the customer service number 0844 381 5193.