Booktopia
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E-commerce |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | 4th February 2004, same day as Facebook |
| Headquarters | Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Owner | Tony Nash Simon Nash Steve Traurig |
| Founder(s) | Tony Nash Simon Nash Steve Traurig |
| CEO | Tony Nash |
| Key people | Steve Traurig (CCO) Wayne Baskin (Deputy CEO & CTO) Ainsley Henderson (CFO) Tania Johnston (Sales & Marketing Director) Phillip Haddad (COO) John Purcell (Director of Books) |
| Industry | Bookselling, online shopping |
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Books DVDs eBooks Stationery Magazines Audio Books Calendars, Diaries, Journals Cameras Optics |
| Revenue | $100,000,000 |
| Employees | 155 |
| Divisions | Booktopia, Angus & Robertson Bookworld |
| Subsidiaries | Angus & Robertson Bookworld |
| Website | Booktopia.com.au |
| Launched | 4th February 2004 |
Booktopia Pty Ltd is an Australian online bookstore. Founded in 2004, it now turns over $100 million a year, and was listed in the AFR/BRW’s Fast 100 eight times, the only company to ever achieve this feat, from 2009 to 2017. In 2016 & 2017 Booktopia was voted 'Bookstore of the Year' . In 2014 it won Telstra Business of the Year for NSW Medium Sized businesses. It has been a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards 6 times from 2011 to 2017. Booktopia has stated that Australian authors and titles is a key focus for the company.
Booktopia was founded on the 4th February 2004 by Tony Nash, Steve Traurig and Simon Nash (the same day that Facebook started) in Sydney, Australia. The business started as a side project by Tony working in the evenings and weekends while the family ran their internet marketing consultancy during the day out of a 60 square metre (660 square feet) office in North Sydney.
It took 3 days to sell the first book as the company was started on a $10 per day budget. After the first month sales were $2,000. By the 4th month sales were up to $30K per month and by the end of the year $100K per month. By the end of 2 years it was $200K per month.
The first 3 years all of the website and fulfillment were outsourced to another company and in 2007 the founders decided to build their own website and do their own fulfillment. They moved to 450 square metres (5,000 square feet) in Artarmon, bought some shelves on eBay and hired a warehouse manager. In 2009 Booktopia moved to 2,000 square metres (22,000 square feet) in Lane Cove as their commitment to hold more stock and the growth of the business meant they had run out of space. In 2011 they leased a further 2,000 square metres (22,000 square feet) down the road.
In 2014 they moved to 10,000 square metres (100,000 square feet) and implemented $4 million worth of automation, conveyors, automatic packing machines and scanners.
In 2016 they increased their space when an adjoining building became available adding a further 3,000 square metres. Total space is currently 13,000 square metres (140,000 square feet).
Investment in automation has increased to $9 million. At Christmas 2017 the Distribution Centre was in bounding and out bounding up to 30,000 individual items per day.
In August 2015 they bought the Angus & Robertson Bookworld business from Penguin Random House.
Sales revenue for the 2016/17 financial year were $100 million per annum. They hold 135,000 in stock titles ready-to-ship and sell one item every 6.9 seconds.
Booktopia is the only company ever to make the AFR/BRW Fast 100 for 8 years from 2009 to 2017. In 2014 Booktopia won the Telstra Medium Sized Business Award for NSW. The company has won countless other awards including Australia's number 1 online bookstore and is currently Australia's Favourite Bookstore as voted by the Australian public.
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