2001 headquarters newbury united kingdom products fancy dress website www.joke.co.uk jokers masquerade is a prominent online retailer selling fancy dress costumes and accessories . 2 contents 1 history 2 guinness world records 3 sponsorship 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit founded in 2001 3 the company was originally an online joke shop run by owners mark and sandra lewis . following the lack of availability of fancy dress in the local area they decided to add fancy dress costumes to the site in an attempt to see if there was demand for online fancy dress . guinness world records edit jokers masquerade currently hold two guinness world records . it attained both in association with the swansea university students union based in wales . in 2009 both worked together to break the world record for the largest gathering of smurfs . 4 in 2011 they again joined forces to break the largest gathering of skeletons world record . 5 sponsorship edit jokers masquerade currently sponsor newbury r.f.c. a rugby union club also based in newbury . 6 awards edit eurobest european advertising festival in 2006 bronze award for creative excellence 7 hitwise in 2010 jokers masquerade ranked 6 for most traffic in shopping and classifieds toys and hobbies category 8 hitwise in 2011 jokers masquerade ranked 10 for most traffic in shopping and classifieds toys and hobbies category 9 ecommerce awards in october 2012 jokers masquerade won the best e retailer delivery award 10 hitwise in 2012 jokers masquerade ranked 9 for most traffic in shopping and classifieds toys and hobbies category 11 references edit joke.co.uk site info . alexa internet . retrieved 2011 11 02 . jokers masquerade . jokers masquerade . 2006 . retrieved 2011 11 02 . facebook . retrieved 2011 11 02 . the telegraph . 2009 06 09 . retrieved 2011 11 02 . guinness world records . 2009 10 11 . retrieved 2011 11 02 . jokers masquerade . 2009 10 14 . retrieved 2011 11 02 . matmi . matmi . 2010 . hitwise top 10 online performance award 2010 . hitwise uk . 2010 . hitwise top 10 online performance award 2011 . hitwise uk . 2011 . ecommerce awards . e commerce expo . 2012 . hitwise top 10 online performance award 2012 . hitwise uk . 2012 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title jokers % 27 masquerade & oldid 744184400 categories online retailers of the united kingdomonline companiesinternet companies of the united kingdomcompanies established in 2001hidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters 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 page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 17 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view