Type Private Headquarters Groningen, Netherlands Founded 2006 | Industry e-commerce Motto Your Ticket to Fun! | |
Key people Sebastian Monteban
Founder and CEO
Marlies Hoekemaker
Chief Marketing Officer Products online secondary ticketing, online ticket exchange Website www.worldticketshop.com Profiles | ||
Worldticketshop is a ticket resale company founded in 2006. The company, with over 40 staff, is one of the fastest growing companies in the Netherlands. It is in the top three European secondary ticket marketplaces along with Viagogo and Seatwave, which are both funded by venture capital by $65M and $53M respectively. Worldticketshop is bootstrapped and privately owned. The company was founded by Sebastian Monteban, in 2006.
It is also a founding member of the EU Secondary Ticketing Association, and backer of EU Ticket News Europe's first business-to-business publication covering both the primary and secondary ticketing industries.
Awards and recognition
Worldticketshop was honored in the Netherlands for its fast rate of growth for mid-sized companies in the Netherlands at the Financial Dagblad Gazellen Awards in November 2009. They placed ninth overall in the country. The FD Gazellen Awards are awarded to companies that demonstrate a turnover growth of at least 20 percent over three consecutive years, Worldticketshop grew 527%.
In September 2009 and August 2010 Worldticketshop was listed in Twinkle Magazines' 100 largest Dutch e-commerce companies
In 2010 CEO Sebastian Monteban was named in the top 25 internet marketers in The Netherlands in 2010 in Emerce Magazine.