Some Interesting Facts About QVC
• QVC employs more than 17,200 people worldwide. QVC has international broadcast operations in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan.
• With 2007 net sales totaling $7.4 billion, QVC, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation attributed to the Liberty Interactive Group (Nasdaq: LINTA),
• Last year, QVC received more than 181 million phone calls in the United States alone, and shipped 166 million units worldwide.
• Today, QVC programming reaches approximately 96 percent of all U.S. cable homes and nearly 30 million satellite homes. This brings the grand total to more than 166 million homes worldwide. QVC reaches more American homes than networks such as Lifetime, MTV, VH1, E!, Style, HGTV, Food Network, Discovery, and A&E.
• QVC presents more than 1,150 products every week — 288 of these products are brand new to the QVC customer.
• In 2007, QVC achieved sales of over $1 billion on QVC.com. The web site attracts 5.2 million unique visitors per month in the U.S. alone.
• To date, 50 million people worldwide have shopped with QVC.
• Over the last 22 years, QVC has shipped more than one billion packages in the U.S.
• QVC has domestic call center operations in West Chester, PA; Chesapeake, VA; San Antonio, TX; and Port St. Lucie, FL. Its five domestic distribution centers are located in West Chester, PA; Suffolk, VA; Lancaster, PA; Rocky Mount, N.C.; and Florence, S.C.
• QVC’s U.S. distribution centers can pack up to 300,000 packages daily. QVC’s worldwide warehouse space is the size of approximately 109 U.S. football fields.
