George (Jerzy) Szymczak

FOR COMPANIES LOOKING TO ACQUIRE / PARTNER WITH PEER IN POLAND

M&A Integration practicioner, exBCG/Kearney, INSEAD MBA

Ensures speed & quality pre & post deal :

Entry strategy: >40 Value Creation Plans (VCP) /due diligences (business & financial strategy, IT/data architecture, risk map, initiatives, culture-ways of working), 2-6 weeks

Local acquisition/JV alliance: 66 Post Merger Integration implementations per value creation plan (stabilization & activation–people core/culture, commercial, data & operations / process & IT migrations), 4-16 months driving 8-15 initiatives, 20-80 People

Author of Business Integration toolkits, trainer of landing Teams

Project references

Manufacturing - Industrial
• Consumer durables (furniture, white goods): Profim/Flokk, Samsung, Whirlpool
• Packaging (alu, paper): Can Pack, Dot2Dot
• Construction (materials-insulation/paints/chipboard-furniture/plasterboard/concrete, engineering & contracting): Bolix-Berger Paints, Flokk-Profim, Libet, Pfleiderer, PPG-Polifarb, Polimex-Mostostal, Sherwin Williams-Altax
• Industrial-discrete (EV, heavy duty, aerospace): Club Car/Garia/Melex, Damix/Caddie, Famur/Pioma, Latecoere
• Industrial-continuous (hot stamping, alu foundry, cement mill, petrochemicals, coal mining, cabling, electron accelerator): Automotive Components Europe (Draxton), Lafarge (Holcim), Mangata, Norlys, Orlen/Mazeikiu, PG Silesia, Radpol, Saudi Aramco-Sabic, Syngenta/Adama/ChemChina, Telefonika-Kable
• Industrial-automation: TeamTechnik
• Utilities (electricity coal, gas and wind/solar renewables): EdF, Energa

Manufacturing - Consumer
• Fresh (poultry/eggs, fish, red meat, vegetable proteins): Avramar, Farmio/Polżywność, Graal
• Commodities: Cargill/Rolimpex
• Processed (oils/jams/condiments/spices/nuts/frozen meals): Agros Nova (Maspex-Polmlek), Bakalland, Bunge-Kruszwica, Hortex, McCormick
• Confectionery/biscuits/salty snacks/tea/coffee: Bahlsen, Colian, Herbapol Lublin, Mondelez/Kraft, Pepsico-Fritolay’s/Star Foods, Tchibo, ZPC Otmuchów/Kervan Gida
• Drinks (soft drinks, beer, spirits): AB Inbev-Kompania Piwowarska, Carlsberg, Heineken, Stock Spirits Group
• Retail: CCC, Inter Cars, InterMarche/Bricomarche, Metro, Premier Farnell/Avnet, Vistula Retail Group
• HoReCa/consumer finance: Accor/Orbis, Credit Agricole, Link4

Healthcare & Life Sciences: Alcon, Aterima Med/Familien Med, Benefit Systems, Glaxo Smithkline, Nemera, Orange eHealth, Pelion-Drogerie Natura, Polpharma

Private Equity: Abris, Advent, ADQ, Amerra Capital, Alkyon Partners, Astorg, Avallon, Capman, Cornum Capital, Coast2Coast, Enterprise Investors, EP Holding, Fonds Partenaires Gestion (private equity arm of Lazard Frères & Cie), Industri Kapital, Innova Capital, Kulczyk Holding, Platinum Equity, Private Equity Partners, MDIF, MidEuropa, Montagu, two Polish National Investment Funds, Oaktree, Resource Partners, Riverside, Royalton, SearchLight Capital Partners, Spectra, Tar Heel Capital, TDJ, Warsaw Equity Group, 3i