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Elmar Group of Poland is a leading transport company with operations throughout the whole of Europe. The enterprise has achieved international success in its business activities during a period of only 15 years. Piotr Sadowski spoke to Henryk Salwa, the company’s Transport Director.
he roots of the “Elmar” Marian Glita company date back to the mid 1970s. From the very beginning the business was a private enterprise managed by its founder, Marian Glita from Jedrzejów (a town located 80 km from Kraków). Set up in 1975, the company initially focused on furniture production, but the business profile changed at the beginning of the 1990s when Elmar turned to international sales of clothes. These activities continued until the middle of the decade, following which the company decided to undertake sales of alcohol and transport services. “International transport services were developed in 1995 – while involved in international clothes sales, we realised the need to acquire a fleet of vehicles for the delivery of products. Using external transport providers turned out to be too expensive and so Elmar’s board decided Industry Europe 155
