Skroutz sees big gains in 2023

Skroutz officials are expecting over 2 million unique consumers to make purchases from the Skroutz Marketplace in 2023, an estimate that, if confirmed, represents a 25% increase compared to 2022. 

Just three years ago, when the pandemic broke out, the number of unique consumers who made purchases from Skroutz Marketplace was almost a quarter of what is expected for this year, at 570,000. At the same time, the number of orders is almost fivefold, as they increased by 379% in 2022 compared to 2020.

While 2020 seems recent, despite the rapid evolution of Skroutz and e-commerce as a whole, the same is not true of 2005, when Skroutz started as a simple price search engine. "The truth is that we had no vision. It took us three years to leave our morning jobs," Giorgos Hatzigeorgiou, co-founder and CEO of Skroutz, said on Monday at the start of the company's conference...