Waldemar Kita (born 1953) is a Polish millionaire businessman residing in France.
Boursier.com et Reuters, published 28 July 2007, retrieved on 10 June 2009.
Optics
Kita was born in
Szczecin
Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...
, Poland. He made his fortune by establishing Cornéal in 1986. The company grew to become the foremost French, and fourth largest European firm designing and manufacturing
intraocular lenses for cataract surgery and in the treatment of glaucoma. In December 2006, Kita sold Cornéal to
Allergan for
€180 million.
[Allergan, acquiert le français Corneal](_blank)
Bienvoir.com, published 9 November 2006, retrieved on 10 June 2009.
Football
Kita is a passionate football fan and in 1998 he bought Swiss club
FC Lausanne-Sport, which he led as chairman up until 2001, when he sold the club again.
[
In 2007, he then bought Ligue 1 club FC Nantes, an eight-time French football champion. Kita reportedly paid around €10 million for the at the time financially strained club.]["Polish businessman Waldemar Kita buys Nantes" by ''Extra Football'', 29 July 2007]
retrieved on 15 September 2008. He has been the chairman of the club ever since.
He was chosen as the best executive in French Football in 2014 by the prestigious magazine '' France Football''.
See also
* List of Poles
References
1953 births
Living people
Polish businesspeople
Polish expatriates in France
French football chairmen and investors
People named in the Panama Papers
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