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 |