Muscling in on the scene

Ewa Andrzejewska, ‘Eurobuild Central & Eastern Europe’: In July you are bidding farewell to Savills to face a new challenge – Apleona GVA – on August 1st. Michał Ćwikliński, managing partner, Apleona GVA: That’s right. After seven years I have decided to leave Savills due to a number of factors, but mostly because I was excited by the challenge of introducing a new brand – Apleona GVA – to the Polish market. And to introduce my new organisation, I would like to start by pointing out that GVA is a well known company in the UK, where it employs a few thousand people (the sixth biggest in the real estate sector there). Around three years ago, GVA became part of German construction group Bilfinger. In 2016 Bilfinger decided to focus on its core business, construction, and to sell its GVA real estate business – as well as its facility management companies, including HSG Zander in Poland. In the middle of the year the business was purch