Gibert Joseph

Gibert Joseph is a network of booksellers in France.

History

Resulting from separation with Young Gibert, Gibert Joseph shares with this group the same origin. Two years after its arrival with Paris in 1886, Joseph Gibert, opens a bookstore Saint-Michel boulevard. Previously secondhand bookseller, former professor de Traditional Lettres of Etienne Saint, consequently has a store, which will be specialized in the sale of schoolbooks of occasion. The prosperous establishment, and in 1915 the two Gibert wire, succeed their father with the head of the bookstore. It is only in 1929 that the elder one, Joseph, opened his own bookstore to the 30 of the boulevard (the current paper mill). Its junior preserves the historical bookstore, which takes then name of Gibert Jeune.

The ensign Gibert Joseph developed thereafter in the Latin Quarter.

The company in parallel developed a network of bookstores in province: Dijon, Saint-Etienne, Clermont-Ferrand, Poitiers, Toulouse, Montpellier, and other big cities see appearing ensigns Gibert Joseph. The company currently has 29 stores, including 17 in France.

In the years 1980, the group Gibert Joseph diversifies while launching out in the record sales and of vidéos. It reinforces these new specialities in the years 1990, and opens a shop specialized in the discs to the 34 of the Saint-Michel boulevard in 1996.

In 2005, Gibert launches its Internet site of sale on line to great reinforcement of publicity. The site succeeds a simple site window which existed since 2003.

Activities

The activities of bookseller of Gibert Joseph are characterized particularly by:

the sale of schoolbooks and university.
the sale of books more " classiques" , also making these bookstores of the bookstores general practitioners.
importance attached to the occasion, with a service of repurchase of the books of occasion near the private individuals.

The foreign bookstore on the fourth floor is particularly well stocked, with a great quantity of handbook and dictionaries for a very significant number of languages. Single characteristic in Paris, two shelves dedicated to the Esperanto.

The activities concerning the discs and the vidéos remain centered around these activities, contrary to number of large signs of discs also having spaces multi-media. There still a big part is granted to the occasion.

Forts of their notoriety, unquestionable Gibert Joseph periodically accommodate celebrities for meetings of dedications. One can quote the German group Rammstein, but also Charles Aznavour among the personalities having carried out promotional operations of this type at Gibert Joseph.

Distribution in France

The group Gibert Joseph developed in the remainder of France and if the vessel standard of Gibert Joseph remains the historical store of Paris, the mark is present in the following cities:

Sources

Gibert Young Section Which sums us?
Gibert Joseph Section Which sums us?
On the launching of Internet site

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