which was formed in 1999 and subsequently purchased by online auction site QXL Ricardo plc in March 2000.

In October 2016, Naspers sold the Allegro Group to an alliance of investor funds: Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa Partners.

12 October 2020 Allegro debuted on Warsaw Stock Exchange and immediately became the largest IPO in Poland's history.

[11][12] Since 2018 Allegro has cooperated with the Polish anti-racist organization the “Never Again” Association to remove auctions of newly manufactured items with racist, fascist and Nazi content.

[13] These included numerous copies of contemporary editions of Hitler's “Mein Kampf” without critical commentary as well as books by David Irving, Leon Degrelle and Hennecke Kardel.