HANOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Delticom, Europe's leading online tyre retailer celebrates its 15 year anniversary this month. Many remember that 1999 was a time before Facebook, Twitter and Apple was still known to most as a fruit. Important events of 1999: The Federal Republic of Germany and Bruce Springsteen celebrate their 50th Birthday, Goethe would have turned 250 years old, 10 million German citizens surf the World Wide Web, and - Delticom was founded. From here on begins an unprecedented career in the online tyre sales.
Delticom is not only successful in German speaking countries, but also internationally and continues to enjoying sustainable growth. Since September of last year the Tirendo online stores, which has been made more known through their brand ambassador Sebastian Vettel, are also included in the Delticom group. The wide range of products offered in the Delticom stores for private and business customers include more than 100 brands and over 25,000 models of tyres for cars, motorcycles, trucks, commercial vehicles and buses. Included in its product portfolio amongst other products are complete wheels, rims as well as car parts and accessories.
Delticom Board member and co-founder Andreas Prüfer says: "We thank our customers for 15 years of trusting in Delticom. All colleagues and employees work daily on making the internet tyre purchase experience as comfortable, time and money saving as possible. Interested shoppers should continue to benefit from the attractive all year round offers from our 137 online stores, in Germany at ReifenDirekt.de and Tirendo.de."
Over the past 15 years Delticom has contributed through its online stores much to the rising popularity of tyre product purchases through Internet distribution channels. Sales jumped over the 500 million euro mark for the first time last year. To date, approximately 7.3 million tyre buyers have gone online into one of the stores of the specialist. In the first quarter of 2014 a total of more than 210,000 satisfied new customers have purchased from the comprehensive product and service offerings in the Delticom stores. Industry experts predict a continuing trend in the development of passenger car tyre sales to consumers through online distribution channels.
The 2014 Delticom report also notes an upward trend to online tyre buying among Europeans. More than one third of respondents intend on buying tyres online in the future. Among the Europeans especially German users could imagine to make their future purchases of tyres through the Internet (47%).
Delticom customers are especially persuaded by the all year round high availability of the wide product selections at low prices. Within a matter of days new tyres are delivered to any desired address with free shipping*. When purchasing tyres online the buyers also have the option to select one of over 38,000 professional fitting partners to professionally mount the tyres for them.
* min two (pcs.) tyres
Information about the company: www.delti.com
Online shops in Germany, Austria and Switzerland:
www.reifendirekt.ch/www.123pneus.ch
Tire tests: www.tyre-test.com
