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QXL Poland Sp. z o. o.
Type	Private company
Founded	Poznań, Poland (1999)
Headquarters	Poznań, Poland
Area served	Poland
Key people	Arjan Bakker, CEO; Grzegorz Brochocki, COO
Industry	Auctions, Electronic commerce
Products	Online auction hosting, Online payment systems, Price comparison service, Online classified adverts
Owner	Tradus plc
Type of site	online auction
Registration	required to buy and sell

For other uses, see Allegro.

Allegro is a Polish online auction website based in Poznań. It was formed in 1999 and subsequently purchased by online auction site QXL Ricardo plc (now Tradus) in March 2000. Allegro was added to numerous Polish web portals, which increased its popularity and assisted its rapid growth. The company has since used this approach to boost other Tradus-owned sites.

European Allegro sites:

Czech Republic- Aukro.cz
Hungary - TeszVesz.hu
Russia - Molotok.ru
Ukraine - Aukro.ua
Bulgaria - Aukro.bg
Belarus - Allegro.by
Romania - Aukro.ro
Poland - Allegro.pl
Slovakia - Aukro.sk
Kazakhstan - Allegro.kz

Immensely popular in Poland, Allegro is ranked 192nd among the world's most used online websites by Alexa Internet (4 December 2008) - compared to EBay UK at 98th and EBay Germany at 64th.^[1]

Allegro now claims to have seven million users with a new user registering every 16 seconds. In the first nine months of 2007, the company's sales totaled PLN 2.75 billion, while over the whole of 2006 sales were just above PLN 2.5 billion.^[2]