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Blue Nile -- Billion Dollar Babies?
March 13, 2007

How big can Blue Nile get? At an investment conference today, Blue Nile CEO Mark Vadon told investors he thinks that, if trends continue, his company will eventually sell one billion -- that's right one billion -- dollars worth of jewelry domestically. Granted, this was an investment conference, and "eventually" can be a long time, but the number's not completely far-fetched, considering Blue Nile now sells about $250 million a year (and is only eight years old) with sales rising over 20% each year. As a point of comparison, Tiffany for the 2005 fiscal year sold $1.2 billion in the United States.

By the way, I am writing an article on Blue Nile, and am wondering if anyone has any info as to who their second largest Internet competitor is. Ice.com? Amazon? Does ebay count?


Posted by Rob Bates on March 13, 2007 | Comments (3)


March 24, 2007
In response to: Blue Nile -- Billion Dollar Babies?
Kent commented:

Second to BlueNile is probably www.jamesallen.com




March 26, 2007
In response to: Blue Nile -- Billion Dollar Babies?
Rob Bates commented:

With all due respect, I don't think so ...




May 7, 2007
In response to: Blue Nile -- Billion Dollar Babies?
Hedda Schupak commented:

Biggest by dollars or units? eBay or costco.com would be my guess.





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