Laurent Schwartz (GE 2005) : nominee for the EDHEC Entrepreneur award 2013

On his graduation from EDHEC in 2005, Laurent Schwartz began working at Ernst & Young and three years later founded the internet site Gold.fr. The site quickly became a leading platform for investment in gold and the purchase of precious metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium). The swift rise of gold.fr., allied with the forty years’ experience of the Comptoir de l’Or (a family firm), has facilitated the growth of the top French network for trade in precious metals.
On the strength of the success of Gold.fr., Laurent Schwartz created a network of sixty-five agencies all over France. The site offers online quotations, price histories, charts and tables, and articles and videos. It also facilitates online transactions, and in 2011 it launched a smartphone application to offer mobile access to these services.
Four hundred thousand unique visitors a month, growth of 50 percent between 2011 and 2012 and annual receipts amounting to €64 million—Laurent Schwartz is thus responsible for the creation of fifteen jobs and now aspires to expand Gold.fr.’s reach abroad.

More information : www.gold.fr

The award
The Entrepreneur of the Year prize is awarded to an Edhec entrepreneur who has decided to take a leap into the unknown and has contributed to EDHEC’s image as a creator of talent by their taste for risk and adventure. Their daring and sense of innovation will have impacted on the winner’s sector or region, or on the vision others have of the sector.
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