Russia bombed a Polish factory. After a year, the president will reveal new facts

“Business Class“to money.pl program available on the website YouTube. The editor-in-chief Łukasz Kijek talks to current and former bosses of the biggest firmas well as people from the business environment – about their lives, businessemployment and much more. The guest of the latest program was Ryszard Florek, president and co-founder of Fakro.

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Losses were initially estimated at PLN 10 million. Now the president of Fakro says that they were in the end to about PLN 30 million. The money is non-refundable. – There is no insurance or compensation. Maybe if Russia loses the war, there will be talks about reparations, but even in such circumstances I don’t think she will agree to pay reparations, said the head of Fakro.

He sells every seventh window in the world

In 2023, due to, among other things, the loss of the Russian market, Ryszard Florek left the company List of the richest Poles in the magazine “Forbes”. At that time, his fortune was estimated at PLN 853 million. Before that, it significantly exceeded PLN 1 billion. The companies he manages generate nearly PLN 1.5 billion in annual turnover.

– We started during communism. And that was the best time to run a business. As long as it was a small craftsman’s workshop. Back then, there was a tax card and you only paid tax per person. When the audit came, it only counted the number of employees, whether they were working and how many we paid taxes on. And today is a nightmare, said Florek.

Today, Fakro’s biggest competitor is Danish Velux, with whom Florek wanted to collaborate in the early 1990s. – When they entered Poland, I offered them cooperation, that we would make wood and they would assemble them, and that they would sell us components that were more expensive to prepare, but they refused such cooperation. Today, Poland makes more than 50 percent. global production of roof windows – he says.

Very quickly, competition with foreign companies became strong, especially when Fakro introduced a new product to the market in 2004, which was presented at the fair in Paris.

All of Denmark booked a plane and came to this fair to see this product. I am, of course, talking about the Velux staff. And from then on, the real hard fight began, i.e. complete destruction, complete breaking of the law without any rules, so to speak, decency. And it continues to this day – he says.

According to Florek, the result of this competition is that windows in Poland are several percent cheaper than in other countries.

In previous episodes of “Business Class”, Łukasz Kijek spoke to:

• Adam Ring strapformer president of Green Caffe Nero;
• Maciej Panicpresident of Panek;
• Story Grochowski from the Arche Group;
• prof. Andrzej Blakeconfectioner and entrepreneur;
• Daria Abramovicha business psychologist who collaborates with, among others, Iga Świątek;
• Henryka Bochniarzfounder of Leviathan;
• David Zielińskipresident of Columbus Energy;
• Jack Santorskibusiness psychologist and entrepreneur;
• Thomas Karolacactor and founder of the IMKA theater;
• Peter I love ufounder of VOX Meble and SWPS University;
• by Jakub Tapea restaurateur from Poznań;
• Wojciech Henrydirector of the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin;
• Marian With youco-founder of Bakalland;
• Marcin Piątkowskiprofessor at Kozminski University, author of the bestseller “The Golden Age”;
• Maciej Wolfchief operating officer of Flair Airlines;
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• Maciej Oleksowiczpresident of Inter Cars;
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