| Type | Aktiebolag |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Key people | Bo Lundevall Founder, Ulla Lundevall Founder |
| Employees | 350 |
| Website | Dustin Dustin home |
Dustin is a Swedish e-commerce retailer founded in 1984 by Bo Lundevall and his wife Ulla Lundevall in a garage in Farsta, Stockholm. Dustin started off selling coloured floppy disks over mail order and started selling IT and technology products over the Internet in 1995. Today (2009) Dustin is Sweden's largest internet-based retailer of IT and home electronics products. The company employs approximately 350 persons and had revenue over 3.5 billion Swedish kronor (about 420 million €) during 2007. Dustin was acquired by the private equity company Altor Equity Partners in 2006.
In 2004 Dustin's daughter company Dustin home was founded, which specialises in selling products to home users.
In 2007 Dustin acquired the Danish companies TCM [1]and Computerstore A/S.[2]
Sources [edit]
- ^ Press release from Dustin 13 March 2007
- ^ Pressrelease from Dustin 6 juli 2007
External links [edit]
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