Allegro, an eCommerce site based in Poland, will have a new CEO in Roy Perticucci, who has decades of experience leading retail and eCommerce companies, a press release said.
He will take over from Francois Nuyts on Sept. 1.
Perticucci has experience with Amazon, where he led European Operations/Customer Fulfillment division for the company, and for a period held the same job for North America.
Before that, he had big roles at other retailers like Ahold, Dixon’s and Tesco.
With Tesco, he was in charge of the development of grocery home-shopping, as the company was growing quickly during that time. He launched Tesco’s first “dark store” for online fulfillments and its Wine Warehouse.
Quoted in the release, he said he was excited to join up.
“Already the most popular eCommerce player on the largest Eastern European market, Allegro is making headway in boosting its presence across Central Europe and beyond,” he said. “I’m more than happy to put my experience to work and take part in this one-0f-a-kind journey. We will continue along the strategic path outlined by the company, because consumer needs stay intact — the widest possible choice, the best possible price, and the greatest possible convenience remain key.”
Allegro also recently reported that its revenue had reached $1.3 billion, or 5.35 billion Polish zloty, in 2021 — an increase of around 34% from 2020, according to a release from the company’s fourth quarter earnings.
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The company boasted about 13.5 million customers and said it was likely to repeat the growth in 2022.
“Last year was all about significant progress in preparing Allegro for future growth,” said Nuyts in the release.
Nuyts added that the company was giving its customers a way to select from over 250 million products from over 130,000 merchants. Allegro said its success had come from debuting features like Allegro Pay, a BNPL method, which originated $476 million in loans last year.
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