Michal Wygrys
About Us
Founder
Michal Wygrys has many years of experience in development, management and strategic planning in various companies.
In the 1990s, he helped to build the drinks division of Walmark a.s., where he eventually became director of the food division. During his era, the Relax brand was created and developed, and it is still the leader on the Czech and Slovak juices and fruit drinks markets. As part of the dynamic development of Walmark, he became a member of the board of directors of the entire company and led the acquisition of Fontea, a.s. In 2004, now as a minority shareholder in the company, he was involved in the sale of the food division assets to the Polish Maspex Group, whose annual turnover is around 14.2 billion Polish zlotys. He subsequently spent two years there as director for the Czech Republic and Slovakia and carried out extensive restructuring.
In 2008, he was asked by the Benson Oak investment group to help stabilise the Lublin-based company Zaklady Chemiczne Permedia, trading on the Polish stock exchange and part of the Bochemie portfolio, as part of crisis management. In 2012, he agreed on the purchase of a controlling stake in the company, which he delisted from the stock exchange within a short period of time. Over a number of years he bought out the other shareholders, achieving a 100% share in 2018. During his tenure, the company became a TOP 3 company in the Central European region. In mid-2019, he sold this Polish manufacturing company, or rather its parent company MW Chemie, s.r.o., to the Polish company LERG S.A., which is owned by the Polish billionaire Marian Kwiecień.
After the sell-off of the Permedia manufacturing company, he made a number of interesting investments/co-investments in development projects related to the construction, lease and subsequent sale of logistics complexes and warehouses. Other activities include investments in the IT sector, healthcare, etc.