ITI Group
ITI Group was originally founded in 1984 by Jan Wejchert and Mariusz Walter. Bruno Valsangiacomo joined in 1991 as the third Founding Shareholder. They were known as the 3 Musqueteers creating from scratch leading businesses in Poland. ITI Group was a pioneer in building state of the art businesses such as the first Polish potatoe chips operations (Chio Chips), first importer of top beer brands, consumer electronics (Hitachi), first certified Home Video distributor (major Hollywood and Independent Studios), first professional advertising agency (ITI/McCann Polska), first professional TV commercial producer (ITI Film Studios) to name a few. Starting 1993 Grupa ITI focused on TV and electronic media creating from scratch leading brands such as TVN, TVN24, TVNTurbo, TVNStyle and other Thematic Channels (TVN Group now owned by DiscoveryTimeWarner), a leading own Polish TV content production including the joint venture Endemol Neovision, Multikino (now owned by Vue Cinemas), a state of the art Multiplex Cinema chain in Poland and Baltic states, n+ the technologically most advanced PayTV operations in Poland becoming after the merger with canal+ the most important PayTV operator nc+. Onet.pl the leading internet operations in Poland - one of the largest in Europe - now owned by RingerAxelSpringer, and some other media ventures in Poland. Grupa ITI took also over the leading Polish soccer club Legia Warsawa, saved it from bankruptcy and was the driving force in building a state of the art new stadium, the club continuing to remain the most successful one in Poland. After the death of Jan Wejchert in 2009 the 2 remaining Founding Shareholders and the heirs of Jan Wejchert decided to sell their various businesses over time to reliable partners securing continuity and respecting the legacy and principles of the 3 Founding Shareholder such as independent and reliable news securing a proper functioning of the regained Polish democracy. ITI Group was dissolved in 2016.
