empik

the largest choice of cultural, knowledge and entertainment products in Poland – over 2 400 000 titles on offer
a unique mixture of categories: press, books, music, films, multimedia, stationery and event tickets - “A whole world of culture and entertainment under one roof”
520 000 titles in our domestic catalogue on www.empik.com and over 1 880 000 titles in the foreign catalogue
1,5 million English titles
more than 2000 press titles in several languages in our biggest store: Empik Junior in Warsaw

153 stores in Poland and 19 in Ukraine (data from 30/06/2010)
33 coffee bars empik cafe in whole Poland (data from 30/06/2010)
about 80 thousands m2 of total floor area in Poland (data from the beginning of 2010)
20 new empik stores opened in 2009
4000m2 – floor area of the biggest empik store in Poland (Junior in Warsaw)
nearly 3000 employees in Poland and 200 in Ukraine
25-30% sales growth rate (year over year)
11000 m2, 35km of shelves in the empik central warehouse launched in June 2008

96% of Poles are familiar with the empik brand
apprx. 8 million people visit empik stores each month
25 million customers per year use empik as a guide to new cultural trends and everything that is worth attention in culture
the Internet shop www.empik.com has 2,4 million visitors per month

more than 60 years of tradition!
the first MPiK Club was opened in 1948 at Unia Lubelska Square in Warsaw
in the 1970s nearly 100 MPiK Clubs (KMPiK) were operating in most big Polish cities and about 300 clubs in small towns and villages
in 1975 in KMPiK in Poznań you could browse through 405 press titles in several languages, including only 160 in Polish
during 30 years of its activity MPiK Club in Zielona Góra organized 1031 exhibitions and 2831 events, 675 popular science events and 1495 cultural artistic events
in the 1950s MPiK Clubs started up Foreign Language Schools which offered a wide variety of language courses, such as Scandinavian or even... Japanese

empik won the title of Master of Trade and Services 2009 in category “My leisure time”
empik qualified for close finals of a prestigious competition World Retail Award 2009 in category: Emerging Market Retailer of the Year
in 2007 PremiumBrand research, empik won the title of The Highest Reputation Brand in category Trade and Services (carried out on a group of consumers and among mangers and businessmen)
emik is the winner of “Quality Service Emblem 2009” (category: press, books, multimedia)
empik’s rebranding project, prepared by the BNA agency, was singled out in the renowned 2010 Rebrand 100 as the only polish project

supporting interesting events and important cultural institutions
promoting talented and ambitious young artists
organisation of the “Bestsellers” competition – the largest cultural initiative of this kind in Poland
own website with culture news bulletin and a magazine “Volume of Culture” containing exclusive journalistic materials – two reliable in-depth guides to both high and popular culture events in Poland and all over the world
empik runs children’s education programme "Przecinek i kropka" (“A Comma and a Dot”) which promotes book reading among the youngest
30 thousand children took part in lessons prepared by Przecinek i Kropka during a two year activity of this unique education programm