moddo.com is the world leader in electronic commerce for professionals
and companies of the footwear, component and accessory industry. moddo.com
was born in 1996 when his General Director, Diego de Vicente, conceived
in the framework of its educational activity at Madrid Complutense University,
a project management based on the use of the new technologies in order
to facilitate commercial relationships in a such dispersed sector as the
footwear industry is. Thus, in May 1997 Zappanet, the first vertical web
site is born in Spain just for professionals of that industry, with the
purpose of becoming the world reference point between the offer and the
demand of footwear industry.
Thanks to the favourable answer of the sector, the company
begins its international expansion. This is a process that turns, in July,
2000, in the appearance of moddo.com, a new name and a new corporate
image that, at the present time, have become the signs of identity of
the professionals of footwear prepared to evolve and to adapt a new way
to establish and develop commercial relationships. At the present time,
the web site has more than 800 member of payment coming form 33 countries,
that present and supplies all their products when, how and whom they should
wish. Between the services that moddo.com supplies to the sector
of the footwear, complements and components it is necessary to stand out:
An exclusive tour, across more than 10,000 photographs renewed quarterly,
for the principal shop windows of the world in order to know the international
footwear and components fashion trends.
The most complete and updated agenda on the fairground calendar of
the worldwide sector..
Professional search engine.
Exclusive web pages just for members with an illimited products showcase.
Pinboard offers, pinboard demands and stocks.
Notes about fashion and trends.
Commercial and financial information about clients and suppliers.
moddoShopping, the greatest shopping centre on-line of footwear, the meeting place for the most outstanding footwear companies.
moddo.com moddo.com offers companies and professionals
of the sector a meeting point with new contents, all the strategic information
and services necessary in order to make full use of the competitive advantages
a medium such as the Internet has to offer, one in which "if you're
not in, you're out".
BBVA is one of the main financial groups of Spain, with a remarkable dimension
and present in the markets of Europe and Latin America. The group consists
of eight extensive areas of business in which substantial investment activities
are developed and that allow for advantages to be taken of new opportunities
and to directly answer the challenges of the global market. BBVA has an
extensive portfolio of industrial participation in diverse sectors.
BBVA has an extensive portfolio of industrial participation in diverse
sectors. Among them are business projects based on electronic commerce,
as much in companies (B2B), as with companies and individuals (B2C). Likewise,
the group includes the first interactive supplier of financial services
with a global character: its Internet portal, uno-e.com, that functions
like financial supermarket.
3i
3i is a European leader in capital investment and has offices in Palo
Alto (USA) and Singapore. The company has completed more than 2000 MBO
operations supporting teams of directors. It invests in non-quoted companies,
helping to finance the growth as much as the substitution of its shareholders.
Through its support of companies in the process of coming onto the stock
market it has helped more than 1,000 appear in the value markets.
The characteristics that distinguish 3i are, investment without a defined
end and the non-interference in the daily business of the companies that
it supports. In Spain it has offices in Madrid and Barcelona and participates
in more than 75 companies. In Europe 3i participates in more than seven
hundred technology companies.
Juan Tomás Hernani , Industrial
Engineer who studied Business Sciences as an undergraduate and who
later received a Masters in Manufacturing Technologies from the
Cranfield Institute of Technology. He is very experienced in the
field of Business Direction and Management, in both large and small
corporations. Gaining experience he has acted as the Managing Director
and founder of Keon, the technological branch of the IBV Corporation,
Managing Director of Olituna.com (Full Service Provider of the canned
foods industry), Managing Director of the Isabel Group (Conservas
Garavilla) and Technical Director of Robotiker,Research and DevelopmentCentre.
He is also a professor specialised in e-commerce at the Universidad
de Deusto and the BBVA Escuela de Finanzas.
General Manager
Diego de Vicente, graduated in Economic
and Business Science, founded ZapaNET in 1996 (now moddo.com) as
part of his thesis in his Doctorate in Business Organisation and
Direction. He has always been connected to the footwear sector and
is a Director on leave of absence for Grupo MC, a Footwear Retail
Chain. At present, Diego de Vicente is also a lecturer on leave
of absence at the San Pablo (CEU) Universitiy of Madrid.
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