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expondo:
BECOMING A LEADING
ONLINE SHOP FOR
PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT
Text: Frank Calviño // Photos: expondo
Waldemar Moss and Piotr Stach founded expondo in 2007 with the vision to provide high
quality professional equipment at accessible prices. Their goal was to become an ally to all
people trying to make their business successful. Today, expondo serves a vast European market,
attracting professionals, semi-professionals, and hobbyists from
various industries, spanning 30 countries. Customers trust expondo
on a daily basis when buying the machines, parts, tools, and products
they sorely need to operate their businesses in the most efficient way.
To learn more about expondo’s incredible cross-border journey, we
spoke to Patrick Maita-Filip, Team-Lead and Project Manager of
expondo.
hat is expondo? products. Our clients include
“expondo is an international company professionals in the catering
Wheadquartered in Berlin, owning a portfolio of and hospitality industry,
seventeen brands producing across fourteen categories since such as chefs, bakers, and PATRICK MAITA-FILIP,
2007. The first types of equipment we sold were handheld restaurant owners, as well as TEAM-LEAD AND PROJECT MANAGER, EXPONDO
scales, like the ones people use to weigh luggage. Since then, industrial professionals, such
we have expanded to multiple professional sectors to cater to as mechanics, builders, and laboratory technicians. We also
all kinds of professional equipment needs,” says Patrick. have clients who are passionate hobbyists, such as home chefs,
DIY enthusiasts, and hobbyists who require high-quality
“We offer many high-quality products, including kitchen equipment for their projects.”
appliances, tools, laboratory equipment, and construction
machinery. Our goal is to provide reliable, high-quality “Our products are designed to meet the needs of our diverse
equipment and excellent customer service, continuously range of clients, providing reliable and efficient equipment
improving our processes to serve our customers’ needs better. for their professional and personal projects. We take pride in
And although we started as a small business with only two offering excellent customer service and technical support to
people, now we have over 350 staff members, and have ensure our clients get the most out of their purchases.”
expanded to all of Europe, with our sights on expanding to
other continents like America.” How does an online shop specialising in professional
equipment work?
Can you tell us more about the kind of clients that We cater to the needs of professionals by offering a wide
use expondo? range of high-quality equipment for various industries.
“We have a diverse range of clients who purchase our We achieve this with a combination of research on specific
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