History of EBS S.A.

History of EBS S.A.

The history of EBS holding is a story about a group of people who decided to cooperate in common business activities. Their first project, constructing a chain of professional laundries in Poland engaged: a Swiss banker, Polish entrepreneur, French businessman (with a great deal of experience in laundry industry) and several financial investors from Poland.

The EBS investment team integrated quickly and soon started to increase the number of members – over the next years expanded to the current number of 8 Partners.

The EBS group’s managerial executives are highly qualified and stable, therefore the company has become the leader in laundry industry in Central Europe and a dynamically growing player of food industry. In 2011 the Group started building a chain of over a dozen of Chocolate houses E. Wedel, which were subsequently sold to Wedel company in 2014.

Currently, the EBS group wants to focus primarily on two pillars of its activity: laundry market and the catering market, constantly enriching the portfolio of its stores

 

A milestone

Year The number of stores
Important event
1999 1 The opening of the first laundry store in Katowice
2005 62 The acquisition of laundry stores of the biggest competitor in Poland
2008 60 The opening of the first laundry store in Ukraine
2010 90 The acquisition of laundry stores of the bigger competitor in Czech Republic
2011 100 The entrance in the catering market by creating the Chocolate House
2011 120 The entrance of the first 5asec laundry store in Slovakia
2014 150 The sale of Chocolate Houses to Wedel Chocolate Factory
2015 160 The acquisition of 12 restaurants from Immochan Group in Poland
2016 187 The acquisition of fast food restaurants serving Thai food dishes
2019 - Rebranding into Pralnia EBS 

Currently, the EBS group wants to focus primarily on two pillars of its activity: laundry market and the inexpensive catering market.
The company develops constantly and establishes its stores portfolio.