Brothers Likus

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Hotel "Monopoly" in Katowice
"Wolf Marszałkowska": The modern office building in downtown Warsaw currently houses the Polish headquarters of the HSBC Bank (rear building; without poster paneling)

The Likus brothers are Polish entrepreneurs from Kraków . Leszek Robert (* 1964), Tadeusz (* 1958) and Wiesław Likus (* 1956) invest in real estate, hotels, restaurants, department stores and fashion stores. They also hold stakes in tobacco processing and trading companies. With their combined fortune of around 640 million złoty , they are 29th among the richest Poles in 2013 according to the annually updated list of the rich in the Polish edition of Forbes magazine .

Import and production

The Likus siblings began trading textiles, computers, and other electronic products from China and Taiwan in the 1980s. In the 1990s the trade was expanded to include cigarettes, alcoholic products and pharmaceuticals. Profits from the trading business were invested by the brothers in a cigarette and filter factory in Jawornik in Myślenicki Powiat .

Via the Merkury SA company , the brothers control Fabryka Cygar i Cygaretek Mercury Sp. Z oo and the tobacco distribution company Przedsiębiorstwo Handlowo-Produkcyjne "Polski Tytoń" SA, which was acquired from privatization in 1997 . The Zakłady Piwowarskie Głubczyce SA brewery in Głubczyce was also acquired.

Hotels and restaurants

From the mid-1990s, entrepreneurs began investing in luxury real estate. In doing so, they specialized in historical buildings, which they mostly converted into boutique hotels . The first such project was in 1997 the “Pod Róża” hotel in Kraków. "Copernicus" (guest in 2003: George W. Bush ) and "Stary" followed in Cracow . The latter received the “Prix Villégiature” in 2007 for the best interior design of a hotel in Europe. In Katowice , the “monopoly” (guests including David Beckham , Cristiano Ronaldo , members of the band Deep Purple , Phil Collins ) and another “monopoly” in Wroclaw was redeveloped. In Łódź they bought the “Grand Hotel”. In 2009 they took over the Warsaw Prudential building , which, after a major renovation , will also house a hotel in the future. The family's hotel business is run by the Liwa Sp. Z oo holding company .

At the same time, restaurants (Holding: Likus Restauracje Sp.z oo ) were opened. Some of the award-winning restaurants are named "Ristorante Amarone", "Concept Restaurant", "Copernicus Restaurant", "Concept 13 Restaurant", "Ristorante Cristallo", "Cafe Monopol", "Pod Roza Restaurant" or "Trzy Rybki Restaurant" - especially in their own hotels.

retail trade

The Likus family operates three department stores and shopping galleries : the Rynek 13 shopping arcades in Krakow and Monopol in Katowice and, since 2012, the four-story Dom Handlowy VitkAc luxury department store in the Wolf Bracka building in Warsaw . There are also stores with the following brands: “Vinoteka 13”, “Diesel”, “Likus Concept Store” and “Likus Home Concept”.

property

The Warsaw real estate development and management business is operated by the holding company Wolf Immobilien Poland SA . In addition to the Wolf Bracka department store on Aleje Jerozolimskie , the Prudential Tower , which is currently under renovation, and a modern, self-developed office building on Marszałkowska Street , which is currently rented to the HSBC bank, the portfolio in Warsaw includes two other office properties. In Krakow, the family owns a mixed-use property at 33 Miodowa Street .

Around 3,000 people are employed in the hotels, shopping centers, restaurants and other companies.

Wiesław Likus, a graduate of the Computer Science Faculty of the Cracow Academy of Mining and Metallurgy , is the entrepreneurial head of the family. In 2012 he also invested in the listed art broker and art banking company Abbey House SA. His son Arkadiusz Likus (* 1979) runs the luxury department store vitKac . The brothers Tadeusz and Leszek are responsible for the technical and artistic side of the hotels they operate. Leszek Likus is supported by his wife Katarzyna (* 1968).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 Najbogatszych Polaków. In: Forbes (accessed May 13, 2013, in Polish)
  2. ↑ Iwona Kokoszka, Podaruj sobie odrobinę Likusów ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Forbes.pl (accessed May 13, 2013, in Polish)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.forbes.pl
  3. ↑ Wprost ranking of the 100 richest Poles in 2010 (accessed on May 13, 2013, in Polish)
  4. ↑ Wiesław Likus inwestuje w giełdową spółkę Abbey House from December 19, 2012 (accessed on May 13, 2013, in Polish)
  5. ↑ Podaruj sobie odrobinę Likusów ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated December 16, 2011 (accessed May 13, 2013, in Polish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / m.onet.pl

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