After the first five-year period - in between the public service and the own business.

In 1994, due to the company expansion, the decision to move to a new place was taken. At the same time construction works started over a new store-office facility in Miętne. The company’s 5^th anniversary in autumn 1995 coincided in time with its festive opening. On that occasion a new tradition came into being – the Lechpol Ball, which then entered the calendar of yearly events and has remained there till now. The company address at the time was Ogrodowa 1. In turn, a utility building that for years used to serve as the company’s main seat redefined its function to host feast meetings thrown for the Lechpol people.

Move to a new facility, having back then a fairly enough capacity, made the President keen to widen the offer further on as well as invite new employees. The owner managed to win some consecutive, valuable trade contacts with Chinese and Hong-Kong factories: Uni-T (producer of measuring appliances) and Cabletech (producer of concentration and telecommunications cables). Additionally, he obtained their permission to distribute the products on exclusive rights in Poland and across the Central-Eastern Europe.

It was the time when some new people became involved with Lechpol: Robert Kałaska – Stores Manager Assistant, Irena Syga – Import-Export Specialist, Marek Puszkiel – Supplies Department Manager. The latter began step-by-step to take over the President and Maciej Wiórkowski’s duties having to do with supply issues.

Hand-in-hand with Lechpol development went the broadening of supply base, which started with the Singapore partners and were now assuming direct deliveries from factories located in Hong-Kong, China and Taiwan. Together with that, export to the Central-East European countries grew gradually and fluctuated between 20 and 30% in various periods in the company history.

A growing number of relatively sizeable objects to be stored met the company with some new investment demands. In 1997 new storage halls were bought and renovated. These were former properties of PSTBK in Wola Rębkowska, a location 3 km away from Miętne. Substantial storage space together with further enlargement of the customer base resulted once again in personnel needs to be fulfilled. New employees entered the company.

Lechpol undertook some marketing initiatives launching first product catalogues and presenting itself several times at Electronics Fair in Wrocław and Poznan International Fair ‘INFOSYSTEM’. Dispatches were arranged first via the Polish Railways and sent from Dworzec Zachodni (Western Railway Station) in Warsaw. Sentiment arise when the employees start recollecting afternoon and evening deliveries at the railway station, followed by thorough dispatch weighing on some simplest scales. Significant growth in business transactions motivated the company towards further organizational changes. So far, customers had been picking up their ordered goods directly from the warehouse. What changed was that now they got the commodities delivered at their place by a courier company. All deliveries were completed at Lechpol expense. 

In searching for novelties the owner and his employees headed for Electronics Fairs in Munich, Hong-Kong and Taiwan. The trips bore fruit in new ideas and contacts. It is exactly the moment when cooperation with DIEMEN factory in Spain initiated, bringing in result permission for exclusive HR transformers’ distribution all across Poland. Asian journeys, on the other hand, laid good ground for cooperation with suppliers such as PEIYING, VIPOW and AZUSA. A bit later it was permitted to register those brands officially in Poland and the rest of Europe. What came next was the introduction on the market of more and more products made-in-Poland. These were entities to do with the chemistry for electronics’ purposes, tin, aerials and their accessories, etc.

In 1998, the President, in response to encouragements addressed by friends and the local community, decided to run in the first elections to a now reborn local government (i.e. to a local administrative unit on a county – ‘powiat’ – level). Once he had won a seat in the Powiat Council, for two consecutive terms he worked for public interests first as the Head of Council for Education, Culture and Sport and then, in the second term of office, as the Head of Powiat Council.

Involvement in local initiatives and holding leadership in the Council led together to the owner’s repeated absence from the company. Most obviously, then, employees received a vast array of entitlements and substantial autonomy in decision-making process. Soon their expertise in company matters surmounted by independent way of acting were both discerned and valued by the customers. Strong belief in his team strengthened by a great trust made it possible for the owner to delegate to the people nearly all entitlements regarding purchase and sales. Employees themselves started to pop up at electronics fairs and negotiate with suppliers. Even before Polish accession to the EU, Lechpol made decision to market only those products in Poland and Europe that already had EC certificates or otherwise such that were able to confirm their top quality and reliability.

Leadership in the Powiat Council accompanied by a very time-consuming public service never hampered, though, the owner’s efforts put into further rapid development on the way for Lechpol. In 1999 a plot was bought near Aleje Jerozolimskie in Warsaw, which allowed to prepare a land development plan attached by designs for office facility with a sales hall.