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Wholesale / Retail Retail trade Intermediation service activities for retail sale 47.92 - Intermediation service activities for specialised retail sale
950 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 January 2021
Employment effect (start)
19 January 2021
Foreseen end date
31 December 2021
Description
Polish e-commerce platform Allegro announced that it will create 950 new jobs at its units in Poland by the end of 2021.
The company will move into a new office space in the city of Poznań; Allegro’s headquarter is to occupy ten floors with a total space of 24,600 square meters, with the possibility of further expansion to 29,700 square meters. Following the expansions of its activities, the company is also working on AI, supply and platform improvement.
Allegro was founded in 1999. Currently, the company employs over 2,500 people across five locations: Poznań, Kraków, Toruń, Warsaw and Wrocław. Previous business expansion was announced in November 2020 (200 jobs created).
Eurofound (2021), Allegro, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 103018, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103018.
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