Amandine de Souza leaves management of the Leboncoin marketplace

Amandine de Souza, general director of the Leboncoin sales platform, is leaving the position she has held since March 2023. She is replaced by Antoine Jouteau, who held the position of general director of the site from 2015 to 2022. He left to take the helm of the Norwegian group Adevinta, parent company of the peer-to-peer sales marketplace.

The former general manager of the marketplace has not communicated about the rest of his professional career. As a reminder, she also holds the position of leading re-commerce within Adevinta. Before joining the group, she was director of Eataly Paris Marais, from September 2019 to March 2023.

These changes in the company’s management circle come a year after the acquisition of Adevinta by Blackstone and Permira, two Anglo-Saxon investment funds, for the sum of 12.1 billion euros. The latter would like to sell the group’s marketplaces (of which Leboncoin is a part) one by one in order to maximize this investment, according to Spanish economic media. According to Reuters, some Irish marketplaces are already on sale for an estimated amount of 600 million euros.

A growing marketplace

With more than 28 million unique visitors per month, The Leboncoin sales platform is positioned second in the Fevad ranking of e-commerce sites in France. At the start of the year, the marketplace was voted “French’s favorite brand” in two categories: second-hand sites and real estate sites. He is the first to be named for the distinction twice.

In the “real estate sites” category, Leboncoin is on the first step of the podium by obtaining the greatest number of “Likes”, after a study carried out from December 8 to 11, 2023 on the OpinionWay panel. With 12.6 million unique users per month, the site has become the portal most used by buyers and tenants and by sellers and lessors. It displays nearly a million online ads, or 40% of real estate ads in France.