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Heureka Group announced an evolution of its flagship ‘Verified by Customers’ service, effective in September 2025 for Czechia and Slovakia. The introduction of a new tiered model is a strategic decision designed to ensure the feature’s long-term sustainability and reflects broader trends within the e-commerce market, where rising operational costs are leading many platforms to adjust their pricing structures.

Heureka Group a.s, a key player in e-commerce in Central and Eastern Europe, announces that it has successfully refinanced bonds in the amount of 3.2 billion crowns as of February 14, 2025. The group will now be financed by a bank loan maturing in 2031, provided by a club of leading Czech banks. Part of this transaction is a reduction of the group’s total debt to the level of 100 million euros.

Czech e-commerce ended 2024 with a total turnover of CZK 194 billion, an increase of 5 percent year-on-year. The overall annual score was improved by the traditionally strongest last quarter. The categories associated with sustainability and leisure enjoyed the strongest growth last year. A regular summary of the development of Czech e-commerce is provided by the eCommerce Insider of the shopping guide Heureka.cz and the Association for Electronic Commerce.

Heureka Group (“Heureka”) announces that as of September 13, David Chmelař will
assume the position of CEO, succeeding Tomáš Braverman, who becomes a non-
executive advisor to Heureka management board.

After three mega growth years, Slovak e-commerce has dropped by 13%. Although the decline in the growth rate was already expected, the result was mainly driven by consumer concerns. E-commerce is experiencing turbulent times and its development will increasingly correspond with the overall development of the Slovak economy. The regular summary of the development of Slovak e-commerce over the past year is brought to you by Heureka.sk shopping advisor and price comparison website.

The last days of December are traditionally reserved for reviewing the year that is coming to an end, analyzing the demand of online consumers and reviewing the key trends that await us in the coming year. How was the year in terms of online demand? Which seasonal trends persisted, which ones got stronger? To what extent did external factors influence customer behavior and to what extent did they shape demand? We checked the data of the Jeftinije.hr portal, part of the Heureka group, and extracted interesting and (un)expected data that characterized the Croatian e-commerce market in 2022.

As usual we prepared  the analysis of the demand of domestic online consumers and a review of the key trends last year. We checked the data of the portal Idealno.rs, part of the Heureka group, from which we extracted interesting and (un)expected facts that marked domestic e-commerce in 2022.