ceo headquarters pittsburgh pa u.s. area served united states products gift cards parent blackhawk network holdings website official website giftcards.com is an online gift card retailer based in pittsburgh pennsylvania . 1 2 the company sells gift cards for thousands of different large corporate retailers and small businesses 3 including best buy barnes & noble sephora coach amazon.com and others . 4 5 6 the company also offers prepaid visa and mastercard gift cards . giftcards.com is considered the largest online gift card retailer 1 7 8 and has appeared on the inc. 5000 list multiple times most recently in 2015 . 9 10 the company is currently owned by blackhawk network holdings after its purchase of the retailer in 2016 . 11 contents 1 history 2 products 3 philanthropy 4 references 5 external links history edit evolution of giftcards.com from 1999 through 2012 . in 1999 giftcards.com was founded by jason wolfe in pittsburgh pennsylvania as directcertificate.com . 1 12 in this early iteration the company sold paper gift certificates for merchants instead of plastic gift cards . 12 in 2003 wolfe purchased the giftcards.com domain name for 40 000 . in 2006 wolfe sold directcertificates.com to minnesota based digital river . he purchased the company back in 2007 and eventually rebranded it as giftcards.com in 2008 . 3 13 by 2009 it had 44 million in sales . 7 the company operates out of a suburban pittsburgh facility that prints gift cards directly and sends them to clients . 3 14 in 2010 giftcards.com had 60 employees and had 100 employees by 2013 . 15 by 2014 the company had over 100 million in annual sales 16 with 12 issued patents and 45 pending . 3 it also entered into a partnership with cashstar allowing them to sell gift cards for over 50 different retailers . 5 in 2015 the company sold its 6 millionth gift card . 2 in 2016 blackhawk network holdings announced the purchase of giftcards.com . 11 the purchase was confirmed by giftcards.com in a press release announcing the value of the purchase at 120 million . 17 products edit giftcards.com offers gift cards from around 500 000 different large and small businesses throughout the united states . 3 14 major gift card providers include best buy sephora yankee candle amazon.com pottery barn starbucks the cheesecake factory gap macy s and bloomingdale s among many others . 3 4 5 6 the company also provides visa and mastercard gift cards . 1 for an added fee customers can personalize their gift cards with photos text or other graphics . 15 all gift cards are printed at the giftcards.com facility in suburban pittsburgh . 3 14 philanthropy edit founder and ceo jason wolfe established the you gift we gift charity in 2013 . as part of the initiative wolfe and his son drive around the united states in an rv handing out gifts and gift cards to children in need . 8 12 14 references edit a b c d gittleson kim 23 july 2014 . giftcards.com boss from orphanage to entrepreneur . bbc . retrieved 5 october 2015 . a b tascarella patty 10 february 2015 . giftcards.com sells 6 millionth gift card . pittsburgh business times . retrieved 5 october 2015 . a b c d e f g todd deborah m. 29 may 2014 . green tree tech firm planning campaign for gift cards . pittsburgh post gazette . retrieved 5 october 2015 . a b coyne justine 17 june 2015 . giftcards.com adds best buy sephora yankee candle to offerings . pittsburgh business times . retrieved 5 october 2015 . a b c coyne justine 8 december 2014 . giftcards.com to add more retailers through cashstar partnership . pittsburgh business times . retrieved 5 october 2015 . a b coyne justine 20 march 2015 . giftcards.com adds amazon to its offerings . pittsburgh business times . retrieved 5 october 2015 . a b fleisher chris 9 march 2015 . giftcards.com of green tree carves out niche online . pittsburgh tribune review . retrieved 5 october 2015 . a b mika brzezinski host joe scarborough host thomas roberts host jason wolfe interviewee 28 july 2014 . 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october 2015 . wally maxine 7 november 2014 . pittsburgh s comeback kid . fortune . retrieved 5 october 2015 . blackhawk network acquires giftcards.com and omnicard.com . pr newswire . 6 january 2016 . retrieved 31 march 2016 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title giftcards.com & oldid 743626638 categories retail companies of the united statescompanies based in pittsburghcompanies established in 1999 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this 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