Ownership profile
Who owns Shopbop?
Shopbop is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (a publicly traded company on NASDAQ), which acquired it in February 2006; there is no private equity involvement.
Ownership profile
Shopbop
BOP LLC (d/b/a Shopbop), a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.
Evidence (6)
Amazon.com, Inc. announced the acquisition of Shopbop.com on February 27, 2006; the operating entity is BOP LLC.
https://press.aboutamazon.com/2006/2/amazon-com-acquires-shopbop-comAmazon.com, Inc. trades on NASDAQ under ticker AMZN, confirming the ultimate parent is a publicly traded corporation, not a PE fund.
https://press.aboutamazon.com/2006/2/amazon-com-acquires-shopbop-comShopbop has been a subsidiary of Amazon.com since 2006, per Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShopbopLinkedIn's official Shopbop page states: 'BOP LLC is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.'
https://www.linkedin.com/company/shopbopPitchBook lists Shopbop's parent company as Amazon.com with ownership status 'Acquired/Merged (Operating Subsidiary)' and financing status 'Corporate Backed or Acquired'.
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/66402-28Shopbop has mostly operated as a separate entity under Amazon's umbrella since the acquisition.
https://fashionunited.com/news/retail/east-dane-becomes-shopbop-men/2021100142547What's uncertain
- Financial terms of the 2006 acquisition were never publicly disclosed.
- No PE ownership at any point in Shopbop's history was identified in public sources; pre-2006 venture backing (Ray Zemon is listed as a venture investor co-founder) predates the Amazon acquisition and is no longer relevant to current ownership.
- BOP LLC state-registry filings were not independently verified in this search; legal entity identity is inferred from multiple corroborating secondary sources.