CPP Management Board receives green light for the next year from Shareholders, March 21st, 2024
The Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting assessed the work of the Management Board of Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific (CPP) in 2023. The company’s results obtained last year were positively assessed, even though they did not meet all the expectations of the Owners, which were set in the budget plan for 2023. The Management Board received a vote of approval and will run the company in the same composition for the next year. The company’s owners, Société des Produits Nestlé SA and General Mills International S.Á.RL, were represented by Wojciech B. Sobieszak, Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
Nestlé Corn Flakes Made in Toruń, 2024-03-13
Gluten-free Nestlé Corn Flakes, produced at the Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific (CPP) factory in Toruń, have received the “Made in Toruń” certificate. Wojciech B. Sobieszak, chairman of the CPP Supervisory Board, received it from the mayor of the city, Michał Zaleski. The certificate presentation gala took place on March 13th at Nicolaus Bank Cafe.
The ball is a pleasant way to help, 2024-01-20
On January 20, 2024, the Marshal’s Charity Ball was held for the 12th time at the Jordanki Cultural and Congress Center in Toruń – the proceeds from the ball supported those in need from the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Among the beneficiaries of the ball there was the Nursing Home Care in Grabie. Wojciech B. Sobieszak, chairman of the supervisory board, made a donation to them on behalf of Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific.
First visit to Poland, 2023-10-04
Emily Thomas, who has been the president of the management board and managing director of Cereal Partners Worldwide since July, visited Poland for the first time. The visit was an opportunity to get to know the Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific team and the business it manages, including both factories in Toruń and Lubicz.
For a century they have been helping children and young people in Grabie, 2023-08-26
Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific (CPP) has a special relationship with the Nursing Home in Grabie, run by the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth. The home is on the list of regular recipients of in-kind assistance offered by CPP. As a result, Nestlé breakfast cereals and cereal bars have entered the menu of the home’s residents on a permanent basis. These include children, young people but also adults with intellectual disabilities. The wards are also helped by the company’s employees as volunteers. Congratulations from CPP on the occasion of the Jubilee to the Elizabethan Sisters, who have run the home since its inception, were presented by Wojciech B. Sobieszak, Chairman of the CPP Supervisory Board.
Nestlé bars have been produced in Lubicz for 20 years, 2023-08-25
Since 2003 in Lubicz at Małgorzatowo street Nestlé breakfast bars have been produced. Today, the plant in Lubicz is the only one in the entire Cereal Partners Worldwide group that supplies breakfast bars to almost 60 countries around the world. 80% of the production is exported. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the factory, a family picnic was held for Lubicz employees. It was preceded by a meeting of the management board of Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific with local authorities.
55th anniversary of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, 2023-06-23
The Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń celebrates its 55th anniversary in 2023. The culmination of the anniversary celebrations took place on June 22 in the NCU Hall. Among the invited guests was Wojciech B. Sobieszak, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific (CPP). A day later, as part of the jubilee, the Economic Forum was held, organized together with the Business Support Center in Toruń. One of the speakers was also W. Sobieszak.
Meeting after years at Alma Mater in Trzemeszno, 2023-05-28
After 52 years from the graduation we met again within the walls of Alma Mater, i.e. in the Michał Kosmowski High School in Trzemeszno. It is the second oldest secondary school in the region of Poznań, after Marysińka school.
BIZNESHUB - where science meets entrepreneurship, 2022-03-30
The Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń inaugurated the activity of BIZNESHUB - a departmental center for cooperation with business. In addition to members of the academic community, the ceremonial opening was attended by other representatives of the Business Council operating at the Faculty. Among them was Wojciech B. Sobieszak, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific.
Board of Directors in its current composition for another year, 2023-03-20
The Shareholders’ meeting of Cereal Partners Poland Torun-Pacific (CPP) positively evaluated the work of the company’s Board of Directors in 2022. CPP Shareholders, namely Société des Produits Nestlé SA and General Mills International S.Á.RL, were represented by Wojciech B. Sobieszak, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He stressed that the Shareholders give the entire CPP team and the company’s Board of Directors, led by President Alexander Wasilewski, a high rating.
Cycling - a common passion for almost 30 years, 2023-01-24
Next year we will celebrate 30 years of cooperation between Toruń Cycling Club Pacific and the manufacturer of breakfast cereals, today offered under the Nestlé brand. Wojciech B. Sobieszak, currently the chairman of the Supervisory Board of Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific, started this business adventure with cycling, which continues to this day. Thanks to the financial stability guaranteed by the Main Sponsor, TKK was able to ensure a good start and develop the cycling passion of talented youth, e.g. Michał Kwiatkowski, Michał Gołaś, Łukasz Wiśniowski, Łukasz Owsian, Katarzyna Niewiadoma, Karolina Karasiewicz, Karolina Kumięga and many, many others. The players of TKK Pacific are starting the next season in T-shirts with the logo of breakfast cereals and Nestlé FITNESS cereal bars. In the photo W. B. Sobieszak with coach Leszek Szyszkowski.
Strong people create beautiful times, 2022-12-19
Tradition has been kept and at the Christmas meeting summarizing the year 2022 at Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific, the best employees received financial prizes and the "Employee of the Year" statuettes! Awards - combined with financial gratification - were also given to the winners of the Special Award of the President of the Management Board of CPP. The president of the company, Aleksander Wasilewski, received the "Cor Bonum" award, given by Caritas of the Diocese of Toruń for many years of supporting Caritas' activities in helping those in need. The entire CPP Toruń-Pacific team was greeted by Wojciech B. Sobieszak, chairman of the company's Supervisory Board, on behalf of the shareholders. The honorary guest of the event was Marek Olszewski, the starost of Toruń.
Inauguration of the year at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, 2022-10-05
The inauguration of the 2022/2023 academic year at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń was an opportunity for first-year students to take a solemn oath, but also to present awards to persons who have contributed to the Faculty. The medal was awarded to Mikołaj Bogdanowicz, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivode and at the same time a graduate of the Faculty. Wojciech Sobieszak, chairman of the Faculty Business Council, encouraged students starting higher education to make the most effective use of their education time.
Good market diagnosis is essential, 2022-05-31
At the turn of May and June, we hosted Luc Imbert, Vice President of Cereal Partners Worldwide and Director of the European Region, to Poland. He visited grocery stores, assessing Nestlé cereal displays. Also he visited the Cereal Partners Poland factory in Toruń, which is under further investments. The team of Cereal Partners Poland and the CPW Central European Cluster presented him business plans for the next few months.
Vote of Approval to the Board, 2022-03-08
All members of the management board of Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific, headed by the President of the Management Board, Aleksander Wasilewski, received a vote of approval from the Shareholders' Meeting for 2021. This means that they will continue the mission of running the company in an unchanged composition also in 2022.
Automation and digitisation year, 2021-12-14
– There is no success without teamwork. All the awarded emphasised and thanked for the support of their colleagues, and superiors, whom they would not be able to achieve success without. Continue and support teamwork, and the successes will come – these were the words Wojciech Sobieszak, chairman of the Cereal Partners Poland Supervisory Board, addressed to the company’s employees during the summary of the year. For the second time in the company’s history, the meeting was carried out remotely.
Students return to the university, October 5th, 2021
After a year of break, the inauguration of the academic year at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń returned in its traditional formula. After a period of pandemic restrictions and distance learning, students return to the walls of the university. Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Boehlke, the Dean of the Faculty, did not hide the joy about this situation. The students at the ceremonial inauguration in the Hall of the Nicolaus Copernicus University were also welcomed by Wojciech B. Sobieszak, who chairs the faculty Business Council. 1700 students begin their education at WNEiZ in the academic year 2021-2022.
The real visit after a break, 2021-09-23
Luc Imbert, the Vice President of Cereal Partners Worldwide (CPW), after almost two years of absence due to the pandemic, visited Poland and met “in real life” Nestlé team, a breakfast cereal producer from Toruń. Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific (CPP) has been part of the CPW group since 1994, the shareholders of which are the American General Mills and Swiss Nestlé. During his visit to Poland, Luc Imbert visited retail stores in Warsaw and Toruń, assessing the quality of the display of Nestlé breakfast products, he also visited CPP factories in Toruń, where the production of cereals takes place, as well as Lubicz, where mainly cereal bars are produced.
Medal for the 100th anniversary of the Polish scene, May 30th, 2021
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Polish theatre scene in Toruń, the Wilam Horzyca Theatre awarded special honours to proven friends. Wojciech B. Sobieszak took place among those honoured ones with the Theatre’s jubilee medal. It was for his presidency that Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific repeatedly funded special awards to the most popular actors, and also supported original theatre productions, including “Five Roses for Jennifer” or “Wedding” in a rock version. Since 2020, W. B. Sobieszak has been chairing the Supervisory Board of the company.
Inauguration of the Business Council WNEiZ UMK, April 23rd, 2021
Jerzy Boehlke, dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń appointed Wojciech B. Sobieszak and Małgorzata Szalewska-Urbańska, both representing the Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific (CPP) company, to the Faculty’s Business Council for the 2021-2025 term. He entrusted the function of the chairman of the Business Council to W. Sobieszak.
Shareholders praise the Management, 2021-03-09
Cereal Partners Poland Ordinary Shareholders’ Meeting approved the report of the Company’s Management Board for the year 2020, giving a vote of approval to all its members and extending their mandate for the next 12 months. Aleksander Wasilewski is the President of the Management Board and CEO (in the background of the picture).
Badge of the County for the summary of the year, December 18th, 2020
The year, full of uncertainty, ends for CPP Toruń-Pacific, a producer of Nestlé breakfast cereals and cereal bars, with a certain victory. This is indicated by the company’s good financial results and improved market shares. During the year’s summary – conducted on-line for the first time in the company’s history – the best employees were awarded, and the honorary guests of the meeting Marek Olszewski, Toruń starost and Paweł Polikowski, the chairman of the District Council, awarded Wojciech B. Sobieszak, the Chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board, for services to the Toruń County.
Fitnesski thank the Club Partners, December 18th, 2020
The pandemic did not stop the Fitnesski neither from further great sports results in the extremely strange sports season, nor from informing their proven Partners about them. Of course, keeping a distance and with a sanitary regime. Wojciech B. Sobieszak, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CPP Toruń-Pacific, a company that has been the Club’s Main Sponsor since 1994, is such a proven Friend of the Toruń Cycling Club Pacific. W. Sobieszak’s decisions from over a quarter of a century ago, when he managed the company as the president of the board, resulted in this long-term cooperation. The decision of its continuation in 2021 was made by W. Sobieszak’s successor, Aleksander Wasilewski.
Athletes appreciate Nestlé breakfast cereals, October 1st, 2020
29th Indoor Championships of Poland in Athletics Masters, played in February this year in Toruń, had been one of the last sports events conducted in the “normal” mode, before the pandemic was announced. Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific provided significant help to the competition organisers, donating breakfast products to participants, including most appreciated by athletes, Nestlé cereal bars, which give them needed energy. Almost 3000 athletes took part in the competition.
"The Golden Hundred of Pomerania and Kuyavia" with a distance, 2020-09-07
“The Golden 100 of Pomerania and Kuyavia” gala traditionally gathered the flower of regional business, regional authorities and the world of science representatives. “Gazeta Pomorska” newspaper has announced the ranking of the largest companies in Pomerania and Kuyavia region for the 24th time. This year’s summary took place in unusual circumstances of covid restrictions: masks were distributed at the entrance, statements about the state of health were collected, the winners on the stage stood at the obligatory distance, and the audience was only half full.
A long way from starch to Nestlé cereals - interview, 2020-07-20
When studying at the university, I signed a scholarship agreement with Bydgoskie Przedsiębiorstwo Przemysłu Ziemniaczanego (BPPZ), obliging me to work for at least five years at the sponsor’s company (you were exempted only if you were employed at the university or joined the army). At that time, the recruitment at the university was “frozen”, so in 1977, I landed in Toruń, where the local starch house was installing a new line for cornflakes production. I started as a clerk at the investments department. Then I was transferred to the production department, and became its head, and in 1987, I was appointed the director of Przedsiębiorstwo Przemysłu Ziemniaczanego (PPZ) in Toruń. By the way, at that time I was one of the youngest directors of a company in Poland. Read in Polish: Przeczytaj cały numer „Strefy Biznesu”, wyd. czerwiec lipiec 2020 >>>
Wojciech B. Sobieszak in the Gingerbread Boulevard of Stars, 2020-06-26
Wojciech B. Sobieszak, a long-term President of the Cereal Partners Toruń-Pacific, and Professor Andrzej Kossakowski from the Institute of Physics, Nicholas Copernicus University, unveiled their Katarzynki in the Gingerbread Boulevard of Stars in Toruń. Both gentlemen, who have greatly contributed to Toruń, joined the ranks of renowned people who have been commemorated in the boulevard in front of Dwór Artusa since 2003.
150 days of work as the C.E.O. overshadowed by pandemics, May 29, 2020
On May 29, 150 days of Aleksander Wasilewski work as the C.E.O. elapsed. They were overshadowed by the Covid-19 pandemics. Wojciech B. Sobieszak, the chairman of the Supervisory Board of Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific has a good opinion of activities undertaken by the Management Board during this crisis. They helped to protect the employees against being infected with coronavirus at the Company premises, and to maintain production continuity and employment levels.
Important mission of the food industry in the fight against COVID-19, 2020-04-02
We are facing an unprecedented crisis, the consequences of which none of us knows. The COVID-19 pandemic affects the whole world and each and every one of us individually. Coronavirus poses a threat to human lives and the global economy. I am proud of how the Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific team organizes their work to implement their mission in a safe way for employees – to deliver safe food to Polish and not only Polish families.
Jubilee Meeting of CPP Toruń-Pacific Shareholders, 2020-03-06
The 30th Jubilee Ordinary Shareholders Meeting of Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific approved the Management Board report on the Company operations together with the Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account for 2019, as well as decided about appropriation of the profit achieved in the previous year. Both shareholders, i.e., General Mills Holding A B.V. and Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., were represented by Mr Wojciech B. Sobieszak, Chairman of the CPP Supervisory Board. Representatives of the Partners authorised Mr Sobieszak to grant a discharge to the entire Management Board from their duties for results achieved in 2019, and to approve the remaining points in the agenda of the Friday meeting, chaired by Mr Aleksander Wasilewski, CPP President.Photo, from the left: A. Wasilewski, W. B. Sobieszak, Legal Counsellor Kazimierz Kozłowski and Legal Counsellor Przemysław Janus.
Anniversary of Toruń?s return to free Poland, Jan 20, 2020
The Chairman of the Toruń City Council and the President of the City of Toruń awarded a medal made to celebrate 100th anniversary of Toruń’s return to free Poland to the company Cereal Partners Poland Toruń-Pacific, to acknowledge and thank it for its help and commitment to the development of this City. On behalf of the Company, the special medal was received by Mr Wojciech B. Sobieszak the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Cereal Partners Poland and the President of the Management Board in 1990–2019. The medal was awarded to distinguish outstanding people and institutions associated with Toruń.