Allo (company)
Allo (Ukrainian: "Алло") is a Ukrainian group of companies operating as a marketplace in online and classic retail and electronics distribution. It is headquartered in Dnipro, Ukraine. The group also operates its own postal service "Allo Expres"s. History. "Allo-telecom" retail chain of stores was founded in 1998 by Dmytro and Hryhoriy Derevytskyy in Dnipro. In 2004, the wholesale company "Cifrotech" was established. As of 2021, Cifrotech distributes more than 30 brands and operates a franchise network under the "Mobilochka" brand. In 2013, the Mobilochka chain stopped operations and ALLO re-registered the lease rights to most of  the chain's stores. Since 2013, when "Mobilochka" belongs to the ALLO group, and "Cifrotech" manages it as a franchise project. According to "Forbes", as of October 2014, ALLO was the second-largest online store with a revenue of $100 million. Since 2017, "Cifrotech" has been the official distributor of the "Xiaomi" brand in Ukraine with a "MiStore" network. The first store was opened in Kyiv in 2017. In October 2017, the company launched a marketplace. In November 2020, ALLO launched its own postal and logistics operator ALLO Express. In 2020, the company started selling food and alcohol as  the marketplace. The ALLO chain of stores has more than 345 outlets in 140 cities (as of Semtember 2021). In August 2021, the ALLO online store took third place in the ranking of the most visited online stores in July 2021 according to "Retailers". In late 2021, ALLO opened the Allo Max store in "Respublika" shopping mall, which became the winner of the Retail Design Awards 2021 in the category “Household appliances and electronics” Recognition. 2013 — Retail Awards in the nomination “Network of portable electronics stores” 2014 — allo.ua online store took second place in the ranking of Ukrainian online stores  according to Forbes 2016 — allo.ua online store took second place in the ranking of “Top 10 most visited Ukrainian online stores” according to Factum Group 2016 — Best Retailers Design in the category “Home Appliances and Electronics” 2021 — “HR-Brand Award” winner in the nomination “Ukraine” with the project “Rapid career in ALLO”