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Sofa.com is a UK-based company founded in 2006 whose primary business is selling sofas, sofabeds, chairs and beds online. It has showrooms in Chelsea, London (Chelsea Wharf, Lots Road), Bath and Amsterdam, Holland. == History == Sofa.com was founded by Pat Reeves and Rohan Blacker when they paid $215,000〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Talking disruption with Sofa.com founders )〕 for the domain name sofa.com. It was agreed that Pat Reeves would buy the domain in cash and would meet the seller in New York to complete the transaction. On the day Reeves refused to pay cash and informed the seller he would only pay via wire transfer. The seller reluctantly agreed, and provided bank details, purportedly of the company he was employed by. In fact, the bank details were his own and $200,000 were transferred into his account in November 2005. He absconded to South America with the $200,000 and a stripper. The money ran out ten months later〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Domains, dodgy deals, sofas and strippers )〕 charged with theft greater than $10,000〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dinesen's employee charged in theft )〕 and he was sentenced to one year in prison. Rohan Blacker and Pat Reeves met when studying law in London in the early 1990s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dinesen's employee charged in theft )〕 They went on to found a business called ‘Deliverance’ in 1997, a high-end hot food delivery business, operating from three kitchens in central London. By 2004 deliverance had sales of £7m and made up to 1,500 deliveries per night on 80 motorcycles. Deliverance appeared at position 37 in the Sunday Times Fast Track in 2004. Deliverance was sold in 2004 for £5.5m to Active Private Equity, Gavyn Davies’s (ex chief economist at Goldman Sachs') private equity fund.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it - a discussion on the economic crisis )〕 Rohan Blacker and Pat Reeves sought a new business venture that required fewer staff, fewer physical premises and a product with a higher basket value, and a long shelf life.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Next big things on the internet? )〕 At the time most UK sofa companies did not consider it possible to sell furniture via the internet. Companies like DFS concentrated on physical stores and have amassed a chain of 85 stores as of 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sofas, sofa beds, leather sofas, and furniture stores - DFS )〕 Blacker and Reeves believed that furniture could be sold online with a promise of completely free returns if the customer, for whatever reason, rejected the goods.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Talking disruption with Sofa.com founders )〕 Branded by Perry Haydn Taylor's design agency, big fish,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=sofa.com « big fish® – branding, design + marketing consultants )〕 Sofa.com was launched in September 2006. Unlike the majority of the furniture industry it never holds sales, preferring to sell high quality furniture, with excellent service, at a great value price all year round.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Portas attacks the sofa industry )〕 Sofa.com has appeared twice in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100, a list of the fastest-growing private companies in the UK, first in 2011〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company profile )〕 and again in 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company profile )〕 Sofa.com sales grew from £572,000 in 2007 to £13.0m in the year ending February 2012. In February 2015, CBPE Capital acquired a majority stake in the business. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sofa.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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