Roman Karkosik

Roman Krzysztof Karkosik (born May 9, 1951 ) is a Polish entrepreneur and investor on the Polish stock exchange. According to an annually updated list of the rich in the Polish edition of Forbes magazine , he was one of the ten richest Poles in 2013 with assets of around 600 million euros. In 2007, Forbes ranked him 557 of the richest people on earth in The World's Billionaires.

Life

Karkosik comes from the village of Czernikowo near Toruń and now lives in a nearby manor house in Kikół . He is married to Grażyna Karkosik.

In 1970 he graduated from a technical college in Toruń. Here he had received a specialist mechanic training course for machines in the sugar industry. At the end of the 1970s, he ran a family restaurant and a beverage production facility (soft drink Oranżada). In 1989 he started manufacturing wires and cables under the name KARO - Roman Karkosik . To extract the metal necessary for production, he opened a network of scrap metal buying points. In 1991, Karkosik started manufacturing PET bottles with Unibax and Unipet . Since 1993 he and his wife have been active as an investor on the Polish stock exchange ; At the end of the 1990s he began to buy shares in the troubled company Zakłady Chemiczne i Tworzyw Sztucznych Boryszew SA and Huta Oława SA . The couple has been the majority shareholder in Boryszew since 2005 , which - now organized as a holding company - controls the listed companies Impexmetal SA (steel processing), Skotan SA (biofuels), Alchemia SA (steel production) and Hutmen SA.

At the end of 2006, Karkosik became a major shareholder and sponsor of the speedway sports club Klub Sportowy Toruń Unibax SA. In 2010, he took over the Maflow Group , a Polish manufacturer of air conditioning systems and a supplier to the automotive industry. In 2011 he took over the insolvent German AKT Altmärker Kunststofftechnik and ICOS GmbH, the parent company of Theysohn Kunststoff GmbH from Salzgitter and Theysohn Formenbau GmbH from Langenhagen near Hanover. In the following year, Karkosik also acquired the likewise insolvent German automotive supplier Ymos with two of the previously three production sites.

See also

• List of the richest Poles

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 100 Najbogatszych Polaków 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2013 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. , Forbes Polska , print and online (in Polish, accessed April 12, 2013)
2. ↑ # 557 Roman Karkosik , August 3, 2007, "The World's Billionaires", Forbes (in English, accessed April 20, 2013)
3. ↑ A prime example of a career ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 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. in the journal Stahlmarkt , issue 3/2011 (accessed on April 20, 2013)
4. ↑ Boryszew takes over insolvent AKT at JUVE.de from October 4, 2011 (accessed on April 20, 2013)
5. ^ Poland: Boryszew signs purchase contract for Theysohn . plasticker.de from July 22, 2011, accessed on December 27, 2014
6. ↑ Polish group takes over operations from insolvent automotive supplier Ymos in Handelsblatt on March 23, 2012 (accessed on April 20, 2013)

Web links

• Biography at Wprost (in Polish, accessed March 24, 2013)
• Short biography Twarze Biznesu at Gazeta Prawna.pl February 28, 2013 (in Polish, accessed March 24, 2013)