Empik

Poland's largest net­work of stores and an e-com­merce plat­form for books, mu­sic, film and cul­ture. Its shelves and on­line shop cov­er every­thing from new re­leas­es and best­sellers to mu­sic, games and gifts, and through Em­pik Bile­ty it al­so sells tick­ets to con­certs, fes­ti­vals, the­atre and oth­er live events. The name comes from the ab­bre­vi­a­tion KMPiK, the Club of the In­ter­na­tion­al Press and Book, a na­tion­wide net­work of cul­tur­al cen­tres and book­shops set up in 1948. The com­pa­ny Em­pik was es­tab­lished in 1991, and to­day it de­scribes it­self as an om­nichan­nel re­tail chain, e-com­merce plat­form and mar­ket­place, with an of­fer that al­so cov­ers elec­tron­ics, cos­met­ics, toys, home goods and sport, plus dig­i­tal ser­vices such as au­dio­books and e-books. The Em­pik Group al­so in­cludes Em­pik Fo­to, Em­pik Go, Go­ing., Em­pik Bile­ty, the Fok­sal pub­lish­ing group, Pla­ton, e-muzy­ka and Jazzboy Records. Ac­cord­ing to its 2025 fig­ures, the group op­er­at­ed 386 stores and served about 12 mil­lion cus­tomers, and the on­line chan­nel ac­count­ed for 56 per­cent of its sales val­ue. For a fes­ti­val whose sub­ject is sto­ries told in im­age, sound and text, it is a re­tail­er built around the same cul­tur­al prod­ucts.