FOOD AND BEVERAGE
CREAM OF THE CROP
The Lacpol Dairy Group of Poland was recently acquired by Polmlek, making it the cream of the crop in the dairy sector and one of the biggest dairy product producers in Eastern Europe. Philip Yorke reports on Lacpol’s important milestones that led to its acquisition and how the company’s new parent company is already enhancing future business prospects.
T
he Lacpol group was founded in 1982 as the foreign trading arm of the Polish cooperative dairies and has since risen to become one of the top ten largest dairy companies in the area, with a turnover of more than EUR 220 million. Currently Lacpol has over 100 shareholders and these include some of the region’s big-
gest dairy producers, such as Rolmlecz, which is the largest single shareholder of Lacpol with more than 30 per cent of its equity. With the growing possibility of its partner dairies able to export their products under their own brands, it was inevitable that Lacpol’s business model had to change. Therefore, in addition to increasing
Industry Europe 115
