Allegro

Allegro is a large Polish online marketplace and e-commerce company. It started in Poznań in 1999 and has become a major shopping destination in Poland and elsewhere in Europe.

What Allegro offers

• Online marketplace — customers buy over a million products a day, mostly new items at fixed prices.
• Seller platform — more than 100,000 companies sell on it, from global brands to small and medium Polish traders.
• Financial services — instalment payments and leasing.
• Buyer protection — guarantees and, more recently, insurance on purchases.

Who it works with

Shoppers in Poland and the merchants who sell to them, most of them small and mid-sized trading firms.

Key facts

• Founded: 1999, in Poznań
• Offices: Poznań, Warsaw, Toruń, Wrocław and Kraków
• Team: more than half of the staff are technology specialists
• Accounts: 21 million created