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Current Report No. 53/2026
Date: 28 September 2026
Subject: Resolutions of the Board of Directors regarding recommendations
for the upcoming General Meetings
Legal basis: Article 17 sec. 1 of MAR - inside information
The Board of Directors of Allegro.eu _the "Company" or "Allegro"_ hereby
announces that during its meeting on 28 September 2026, it resolved to
submit specific recommendations to the upcoming Company's Ordinary
General Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting.
The General Meetings, during which the below recommendations will be
considered, is planned for 18 November 2026. The meetings will be
formally convened in the usual manner in the coming days, at which time
the formal convening notice, the full text of the proposed resolutions,
and their detailed justifications will be published and presented to the
shareholders.
Specifically, the Board resolved to recommend _and in the case of Mrs.
Ostap-Tomann, reiterates its previous recommendation_ that the Ordinary
General Meeting adopts the following resolutions:
1. The appointment of three new independent Non-Executive Directors of
Allegro: Rakhi Goss-Custard, Anna Mankiewicz-Rębkowska, and Anna
Pawlak-Kuliga, effective from 1 January 2027.
2. The appointment of Katarzyna Ostap-Tomann as an Executive Director of
Allegro, with effect as of 18 November 2026. As previously announced in
current report No. 34/2026 dated 27 July 2026, the Board had already
resolved to recommend her appointment to the upcoming General Meeting.
This item is reiterated here to provide a complete overview of the
proposed changes to the Board's composition. Katarzyna Ostap-Tomann will
serve as the Chief Financial Officer and a Member of the Management
Board of Allegro sp. z o.o., effective from 1 October 2026.
The Board will also recommend to the shareholders the extension of the
maximum price for the share buyback program _announced on 25 June 2026_.
The Board proposes that shareholders authorize an increase in the
maximum purchase price in the share buyback to PLN 65.00 per share. The
total amount allocated to the entire program would remain unchanged _PLN
1.6 billion_.
Furthermore, the Board resolved to recommend that the Extraordinary
General Meeting adopt the following resolution: The cancellation of
17,879,330 shares repurchased by the Company during Phase I of the share
buyback program, which will reduce the Company's share capital.
The Company also informs that on the day of the Board meeting, Mr.
Richard Sanders submitted his resignation from the position of
Non-Executive Director of the Company effective as of the date of the
upcoming Ordinary General Meeting.
The professional biographies of the newly recommended candidates for
Directors are presented below _the professional biography of Katarzyna
Ostap-Tomann was previously published in current report No. 34/2026
dated 27 July 2026_:
Rakhi Goss-Custard spent over twelve years running large, complex
businesses at Amazon and has spent the last decade applying that
commercial experience across public and private company boards in
digital, retail, financial services and travel. She joined Amazon UK in
its early years and was part of the team that scaled it from a start-up
into one of the country's largest retailers. As a member of the UK
Executive Team, she held P_L responsibility across media, hardlines and
digital categories representing over 3 billion of revenue. She built
Amazon UK's first formal pricing policy, launched new digital categories
and helped scale the business through periods of rapid and often
disruptive growth. This operating background gives her a practical,
hands-on perspective on commercial strategy. She currently serves on the
board of Trainline, where she chairs the Remuneration Committee. Her
previous board roles include Schroders, Rightmove, Kingfisher _where she
also chaired the Remuneration Committee_ and Nisbets _where she chaired
the Digital and Marketing Committee_. Across these roles she has worked
alongside management teams navigating digital transformation and
business-model change, with a particular focus on growth strategy,
pricing and digital proposition. Earlier in her career, Rakhi worked at
Oliver Wyman and in start-up environments. She holds a degree from the
University of Pennsylvania.
Anna Mankiewicz-Rębkowska is an accomplished senior banking executive
with twenty years of experience in top-tier banks and in strategy
consulting gained in Asia, Australia and Europe. She specialises in
retail banking and wealth management, digitisation and innovation, and
large-scale transformations. She began her career in strategy consulting
with The Boston Consulting Group, first in the Amsterdam office from
2009 and later in Sydney from 2012, specialising in corporate strategy
for financial institutions, transformations and technology. Between 2013
and 2020 she held various leadership roles at the Commonwealth Bank of
Australia, where she gained valuable experience in retail banking, sales
channels, digitisation and innovation. Most recently, she was a member
of the leadership team for retail banking and wealth management across
18 Asian, European and Middle Eastern markets, reporting into Citibank's
regional office in Singapore. In this role she built a strong background
in customer segmentation, acquisition and retention, loyalty and digital
banking, with P_L accountability for the Citigold and Citigold Private
Client segments. She is a Member of the Supervisory Board of Bank
Millennium S.A. and of Luxmed Ubezpieczenia TUiR S.A. _a Bupa company_.
She holds dual master's degrees from the Warsaw School of Economics.
Anna Pawlak-Kuliga is President International at Avis Budget Group, a
Fortune 500 company, where she is responsible for the overall leadership
of the company's regions of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia,
Australia and New Zealand. Previously she was Global CFO of IKEA Retail
and CEO and President of IKEA Group China. She also served as CEO of
IKEA Poland and held leadership roles in the UK and Poland across
finance, operations and real estate. Her experience includes leading
omnichannel transformations at global level, digital and operational
restructuring, and international expansion. She has worked on a number
of innovative solutions, including partnerships with Alibaba and Tencent
in China, and led investment strategies in renewable energy in Poland.
Anna has held various governance roles across IKEA Group companies and
was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Union Chamber of
Commerce in China. She serves on the Programme Council of the UN Global
Compact and the Executive Education Advisory Board of Kozminski
University, and is a supervisory board member of Netguru. She holds a
Master's degree in Law and Administration from Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznań.
Allegro.eu is a Luxembourg public limited liability company _socit
anonyme_, registered office: 6, rue Eugne Ruppert, L-2453 Luxembourg,
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, R.C.S. Luxembourg: B214830.
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