Poland's Allegro confirms outlook as Q1 earnings rise
"Not only is the number of active buyers rising in Poland and internationally, but they also continue to spend more with us on average," Allegro's incoming CEO Marcin Kuśmierz said in a statement. Allegro, which runs third-party marketplace platforms also in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, said it had 21 million active buyers across the group, a 5.4% rise from a year earlier, including nearly 6 million outside of Poland. Trading conditions were "not the best" in the first quarter, but things were looking "a little bit firmer" so far in the second, finance chief Jon Eastick told Reuters, adding the company was more hopeful for the later part of the year.