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Tickets.com is a global company selling tickets for events, based in Costa Mesa, California. It is owned by Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the interactive media and Internet division of Major League Baseball, and currently handles the sale of tickets for nineteen (19) Major League teams as well as over two thousand (2,000) clients worldwide. It is expected that tickets.com will handle all sales of MLB tickets when contracts expire with Ticketmaster. Through its business-to-business operations, entertainment and sports organisations can sell tickets under their own brands to consumers online, through retail outlets, at kiosks, via call centers and interactive voice response systems and mobile phones. Tickets.com also sells tickets directly through their website. ==History== Tickets.com was originally incorporated as Entertainment Express, Inc. in 1995. In 1996, the company's business operations were launched by its co-founders Irv Richter, David Richter, Jim Cassano and Larry Schwartz with the acquisition of Hill Arts and Entertainment Systems. That same year, the company came under the control of California venture capital firm Ventana Global. Under the new president, W. Thomas Gimple, the company began to put together a strategy to consolidate the ticketing industry, without raising suspicions at its competitor, Ticketmaster. Over the next two years the company acquired a dozen others, including BASS of northern California (Ticketmaster's largest licensee), and Tickets.com, a company incubated by Idealab of Pasadena, California. Following the Tickets.com acquisition in 1999, the entire company was rebranded as Tickets.com with the free phone number 1-800-TICKETS.〔''Ticket Masters'', pp. 239–241.〕 Over the next few years the company went through significant growth and re-organization, funded by private equity firm General Atlantic Partners. In November 1999 tickets.com made an Initial Public Offering led by Morgan Stanley and its Internet analyst Mary Meeker, which raised $75 million, with the price rising 60% on its first day of trading. In June 2000 the company negotiated a deal that would lead to its eventual acquisition, winning the exclusive rights to be the provider of online ticketing services to Major League Baseball Advance Media (MLBAM), through a multi-year agreement.〔''Ticket Masters'', p. 247.〕 In 2005, Tickets.com was sold to Major League Baseball Advanced Media, LP for $66 million. 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「Tickets.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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