WOJAS S.A.

Already in the PRL era Nowy Targ was associated with all Poles with shoes - many with sentiment to this day recalled the famous Relaxes produced in the Nowotary Leather Industry Plant Podhale. However, the gigantic plant did not survive the free-market economic transformation after 1989 At the same time, Wiesław Wojas, a representative of a family connected for many generations with the production of footwear, decided to sew shoes under the Wojas brand, thereby naming his own name for the exceptional reliability of their performance. In 1990, he hired a few people and opened the first company showroom. Production in the first year of operation reached several dozen thousand pairs of shoes. Fashionable design, the ability to read the changing preferences of customers and rapid response to market changes, and above all the highest quality of the produced footwear have resulted in the rapid development of the company. In 1994, Wiesław Wojas decided to buy from the administrator of the bankruptcy estate of NZPS Podhale some of the departments of the liquidated plant with machines. This enabled not only a dynamic increase in production capacity, but also the preservation of hundreds of endangered jobs - in just one year, employment in the enterprise has tripled. In 1996, the Wojas Trade company was founded, which took over the existing company stores and started the active expansion of the network. The years 2007-2008 have opened a completely new stage in the development of the company. First, ZPH Wojas was transformed into a joint-stock company, and in the spring of 2008, Wojas S.A. he made his debut on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The acquired capital was allocated for the expansion and recapitalization of the sales network (within 3 years, the number of stores almost doubled, reaching the number of 120), expansion of the production plant and development of the design department. In the same year, 100% shares in Wojas Slovakia were acquired, intensifying the expansion to the market of our southern neighbor (currently the Slovak network consists of 9 stores). In 2009, the company started the expansion of the production plant, combined with the purchase and implementation of a new injection shoe assembly system and the purchase of new sewing and assembly machines. Half of the investment costs (PLN 12 million) were financed from EU funds under the Innovative Economy Operational Program. Today Wojas S.A. is one of the largest and most respected Polish footwear manufacturers, with a network of nearly 180 showrooms in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Belarus and Hungary, and produces several hundred thousand pairs of shoes every year. The company''s offer includes elegant leather women's and men's footwear, youth models and trekking footwear. The offer is complemented by leather goods - handbags, briefcases and belts. Part of the production is directed to export and to special services - Wojas has been supplying specialist footwear for the army, fire brigade, border guards, Polish post office, forestry and transport services for several years. Capital group Wojas S.A. it employs nearly 1,500 people in Poland.