GoAntiques
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Type | Private |
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Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1994 |
Headquarters | Portland, Oregon, United States |
Products | antiques, collectibles, art |
Website | www.goantiques.com |
GoAntiques is an online retail and auction marketplace for antiques and collectibles. The company was founded as Antique Networking in 1994, is currently based in the Portland, Oregon area.[6]
Business profile[]
GoAntiques inventory consists of antique, collectible, art, and other merchandise for sale by member dealers. Along with TIAS.com, and Ruby Lane it was long considered one of the 3 major online antique malls.[1] As of July 2014, the site lists more than 400,000 items from 1,800 dealers in 29 countries.
History[]
Antique Networking, Inc. was founded in Ohio in 1994 by Kathy Kamnikar,[2] and was online by June 1995 [3] placing it amongst the very first online internet antiques & collectibles services. It began operating under the domain antiqnet.com in 1996 and in that year was listed by the Chicago Tribune as one of 8 dominant online services (alongside historical auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's).[4] Antique Networking merged with Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based GoAntiques in 2001 and began operating under the goantiques.com domain.[5]
In 2003 the company moved headquarters from Baton Rouge to Columbus, Ohio under Chapter 11 Reorganization.[6][7]
In October 2008, antiques and collectibles research company acquired GoAntiques.[8]
In May 2015, online social marketplace Gemr acquired GoAntiques.[9] Gemr later divested itself of the GoAntiques site. [10]
References[]
- "Business Description". GoAntiques.com - About Us. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
- ^ [1] Antique Mall comparison from about.com
- ^ [2]
- ^ [3] rec.antiques.marketplace posting
- ^ "Visiting a Virtual Gallery". Chicago Tribune. 27 December 1996. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ [4] AuctionBytes News Article
- ^ Columbus Business First Article
- ^ [5] The Advocate (Baton Rouge) article
- ^ Columbus Business First article
- ^ eCommerce Bytes Article
- ^ eCommerce Bytes Article
External links[]
- Online retailers of the United States
- Companies based in Portland, Oregon
- Antiques
- Retail companies established in 1994
- Internet properties established in 1994
- 2015 mergers and acquisitions