Company Information

ThePizza.Shop was originally named Pizzanet-UK, and was established in late 1999 by ex-pizza shop owner, Philip Buddery. In its infancy, the site had the domain name: http://pizzanet-uk.netfirms.com, which used free hosting from the USA. After a short period of time, the domain name pizzanet-uk.com was used and quickly shot up the rankings on all major search engines across the world.

We changed our sitename to ThePizza.Shop and bought www.thepizza.shop domain.
We have since secured the name, www.pizzajoe.co.uk.

The site itself grew from 50 pages, all hand written in HTML, up to over 10,000 pages by August 2002. Aswell as listing shops in 14 countries, we added games, recipes, competitions and a forum to offer more to our visitors. We have maintained our high position in the search engines due to our increased popularity, sites linking to us and the general content being the most relevant in all cases. The global pizza delivery industry is expanding rapidly and ThePizza.Shop is ideally placed as the number one independent pizza delivery resource on the Internet.

To enable equality in the pizza delivery industry between the major chains (Dominos', Pizza Hut and Papa Johns) and the smaller independent shops, we created cost effective packages for these shops to have their business trading on-line, quickly and effficiently.

The synergy between the use of new technologies and our knowledge of the pizza industry make for an exciting future for ThePizza.shop and all the thousands of pizza shops who use our services currently and those that will in the future.

The main aims of ThePizza.Shop are to :

Internet enable all pizza shops in the UK.
To provide on-line ordering for EVERY independent pizza shop in the U.K.
Offer consumers more choice of shops to use and encourage on-line ordering.
Enable us to be the number one resource for independent pizza shops.
To change the way we all order pizzas.
To offer our visitors more every time they visit.

ThePizza.Shop has gained plenty of media attention. From early days, our backers The Princes Trust and Business Venture, made us realise the importance of press attention. Our first press release was in Nottingham's Evening Post. We have also appeared on ITV show, The Web Review (Read review), where our site was given the accolade of 'favourite of the week' by ther reviewer. Our office was recently contacted by researchers from Johnny Vaughn show (BBC1) to help them organise a pizza delivery driver race! Watch this space.

ThePizza.Shop offers a variety of packages designed to enable pizza shop proprietors to advertise their business online. If you own a pizzeria - and would like to offer your customers the opportunity to have your very own website with online ordering facilities - contact us. You can visit our site designed especially for store owners at ... www.pizzashopowners.com or click on the banner below.

If you would like to advertise to 100,000+ people with your products - contact us on 08707 469361.
For advertising on this site - click here to email us.

To contact us, please use one of the methods listed below for any enquiry.
Fancy joining our team? We have many openings for sales, administration and IT support staff.
For employment opportunities send your CV by email or use the postal address below.

Available in 14 countries.
Over 60,000 visitors every month.
150,000 page requests per month
We list 11,000+ pizza shops in the UK.
Listed top of all major search engines ( Google / Yahoo / Lycos / Altavista / MSN )
104,000+ subscribers to our monthly newsletter.
Age range of visitors: 9 - 75
Visitor gender breakdown: 61% Female 39% Male

Site designed in-house by our design company, Oceanic Design / www.oceanicdesign.com.
If you have any comments or questions about the design of this site - contact our Webmaster.
Back end developed using PHP and SQL database.
Images created using Photoshop, JASC Paint Shop Pro 7 and Animation Shop 7.
Photos taken with a Canon Digicam.