A.1 Who we are

THE COMPANY
DEA SpA
Legal office: Via Pietro Boccanelli 27
00138 Roma
Tel: +39 06 852121
Fax: +39 06 8543228
e-mail: deanet@deanet.it
web: http://www.deanet.it
C.C.I.A.A. N. REA 160360 del 1/10/1951
Fully paid-up Corporation stock: EUROS 2.000.000,00
Fiscal ID and Company registration N. (Italy): 00469620587
VAT number: 00901181008
ISO Certification: ISO 9001:2000 n. IT-21782

THE HISTORY
DEA was founded in Rome in 1946 with the name of S.I.C.E. Società Italiana per il Commercio Estero in the same building in Via Lima 28, where is still located the legal office.
All the editorial production of our Country was stopped and had difficulties in restarting, while in the USA Publisher had continued to produce and to grow, increasing largely the number of books and journals.
1945 – Thanks to the intuition of its founder, Enrico Ligi, who understood the need of the scientific research community in Italy and Europe, to quickly recover the information gap caused by the dramatic historical events, that starts, in USA, the adventure of DEA (formerly SICE).Taking into account the requests of the Italian market, were identified the most important American Publisher with whom start commercial agreements to import and distribute scientific publications in Italy. Once in the Country, books could find collocation in the Libraries at Universities and Research Centers that were slowly restarting their activities.
1948 – Due to the increased volume of import and of new commercial agreements with Publishers from UK, it was decided to modify the company name in D.E.A. Diffusione Edizioni Anglo-Americane s.r.l.
During the years the number of Publishers of different Countries continued to grow and this made its founder to coin what still today is the motto of D.E.A.:
p=. books from the world to your home
Due to the growing number of suppliers and shipping (today over 30.000 from more than 100 Countries), and especially to the answer of the market to the services offered (40.000 are our customers with a turnover of 20.000.000,00 of Euros), at the beginnings of the 50s it became necessary to open new offices to manage the great number of orders coming from Libraries and Research Centers.
DEA became, very soon, the most important International bookshop in Italy, able to satisfy any bibliographic request, taking care of importing and delivering books to research centers, libraries and consumers.

DEA is today considered one of the most important Company in the sector, depends mainly on our policy, the same from the beginning, inspired to the fundamental principle of offering always to customer a 360° service, to satisfy all his needs. Bearing this in mind, since the beginning were created different specific departments, that are still active today:

• Journal Subscription Dept.: that not only take care of the subscriptions to Italian and Foreign journals, but also follows the issue delivery up to final user, as well as the online activation.
• Book Dept.: thank to one of the most complete catalogue in the world, allow to find and delivery in very short time (in some cases in 48 hours) any book published all over the World.
• Books on Approval Dept.: that offers to Public Institutions, the possibility of examine the most important new titles on specific subject selected according customer needs, before purchasing them. (only in Italy).
• Standing orders Dept (series): that guarantee the regular receipt of all new volumes published for a specific collection.
• Back Issue Dept.(out of print): thanks to the relationship with the most important antiquarian warehouses in the world we can complete your collection supplying missing issues and volumes.
• Document Delivery Dept.: that can supply in 48 hours, photocopies of articles published on every subject in almost every journal.
• Standards Supply Dept.: that can supply in short period by courier or e-mail, standards produced by over 400 institutions.
  1987 – DEA was the first Italian bookseller, and one of the firsts in Europe, to deal with electronic publications, bringing to market information, at the beginning on CD-Rom and now via Internet and on DVD. That brought to the creation of a new department:
• E-media Dept.: where specialized staff manage the subscription, activation and training of:
  • Bibliographic and full text databases
  • Electronic journals
  • E-books
  • Software for managing electronic products
  • Linking software
  • Meta search engines
    The E-media dept. Also deal with the organization and management of:
  • Consortia
  • Workshops
  • Training
    1996 – DEA is on the internet. With the purchase of 6 powerful servers and a fast connection for data transmission with the world biggest network, INTERNET, the DEANET
    http://www.deanet.com e http://www.deanet.it is born. The institutional site can supply, 24hours a day, many online services:
• Information about Publishers and products
• Links to useful web sites (Publishers, Libraries, Universities, Association etc.)
• Recommendations about new titles and offers
• DEA OnLine, a free service to all DEA customers, available online 24 hours a day, for:
  • Check and management of orders
  • Check of invoices and statements
  • Check of deliveries
  • Claims
  • Quotation requests
• DEAnews, the DEA periodical online press news DEA, available for free with all news of the editorial market: prices, products and services, info about future publications, special offers and many other news as Congress details, Seminars and events in the field of sciences, publishing and library sciences that take place during the year in Italy and abroad.

1999 – DEA becomes S.p.A. and it is ready to enter in the “New Economy” with the deastore.com project: http://www.deastore.com


p=. “the big online bookshop”

Created for consumer but especially to answer to the needs of libraries, corporate and professional, deastore.com is DEA proposal for e-commerce.

2002 – DEA S.p.A. is the first bookseller to get the quality certification


p=. ISO 9001: 2000 CSQ IQNet.

2006 – DEA S.p.A. buy the new office in via Boccanelli 27 in Rome. A big building that thanks to a total specific refurbishing and a total investment of about 5 million Euros, has become a super automated warehouse, to manage deastore.com orders and to lodge the Rome DEA offices. 2008 – Three important and strategic agreements in the sector of editorial distribution, both in print and electronic, made *DEA S.p.A. * to become the first company in the field of international publishing distribution in Italy. 2008 – deastore.com release 2.0, is alive! With the new release the online bookshop becomes a real megastore, where together with books, approximately 10 million new titles and over 100 million of used books, you can find millions of entertainment products:

• Music: a catalogue of over 10 million of songs: Italian, American and English, with the possibility of searching and listening to the first 30" of each song.
• Cinema: 120.000 films in DVD and Blue ray (in 5 languages)
• Video-games: a big catalogue of Italian and Foreign titles.

And soon also:

• e-books,
• audio-books
• digital music
• … and many other products!