Cinema City Poland

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'Cinema City Poland' Sp. z o.o.

Type	Ltd.
Founded	1999 Cinema City International
Headquarters	Warsaw, Poland
Key people	Moshe (Mooky) Greidinger, CEO
Industry	Cinemas
Revenue	Unknown
Employees	~1000
Slogan	Your best way to see the movie (Twój najlepszy sposób na film)
Website	www.cinema-city.pl

Cinema City is a brand of multiplex cinemas in eastern and central Europe, run by the Israeli company Cinema City International (CCI). In Europe it has cinemas in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. In Poland Cinema City has almost 40% of the multiplex market, with Multikino its major competitor. CCI also runs a chain of Israeli multiplexes under the name of Rav-Hen.

1 Current multiplex locations
2 Current IMAX locations
3 Corporate Governance
4 Merger
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Current multiplex locations

Arkadia (Warsaw) - 2798 seats, 15 screens, opened November 2004
Bemowo (Warsaw) - 2400 seats, 11 screens, opened December 2000
Janki (Warsaw) - 1966 seats, 10 screens, opened 2002
Promenada (Warsaw) - 2849 seats, 13 screens, opened 2002
Sadyba (Warsaw) - 2959 seats, 12 screens + IMAX, opened September 2000
Galeria Mokotów (Warsaw) - 3276 seats, 14 screens, opened 2002
Plaza (Kraków) - 2664 seats, 9 screens + IMAX, opened 2001
Zakopianka (Kraków) - 2218 seats, 10 screens, opened 2002
Galeria Kazimierz (Kraków) - 1813 seats, 10 screens, opened Mar 2005
Korona (Wrocław) - 2027 seats, 9 screens, opened 2002
Punkt 44 (Katowice, Metropolis Katowice) - 2570 seats, 11 screens + IMAX, opened 2002
Plaza (Ruda Śląska) - 1557 seats, 8 screens, opened 2001
Krewetka (Gdańsk) - 1871 seats, 8 screens, opened 2003
Wolność (Częstochowa) - 1670 seats, 8 screens, opened Sep 2004
Toruń (Toruń) - 2495 seats, 12 screens, opened May 2005
Plaza (Poznań) - 2065 seats, 9 screens + IMAX, opened Jun 2005
Silesia City Center (Katowice, Metropolis Katowice) - 2900 seats, 13 screens, opened December 2005

18th location is to be opened in March 2006 (Manufaktura in Łódź). Another sites to be opened in 2006 are Lublin and Rybnik. 2007 is planned to bring new cinema in Bydgoszcz

[edit] Current IMAX locations

Cinema City has exclusive rights for operating IMAX technology theatres in Poland. It currently runs four IMAX theatres, alongside its multiplexes in:

Warsaw (Sadyba)
Katowice
Kraków (Plaza)
Poznań
A fifth IMAX theatre is to be opened alongside the multiplex in Łódź

[edit] Corporate Governance

Company's Management Board consist of three members:

Mr. Moshe (Mooky) Greidinger (CEO)
Mr. Amos Weltsch (COO)
Mr. Israel Greidinger (CFO)

In Poland the company is run by Mr. Rafał Rybski, Director of Operations.

[edit] Merger

In 2002 Cinema City took over Polish cinemas belonging to Ster Century Company, which withdrew from the Polish market. Cinema City started operating the following multiplexes: Janki, Promenada and Galeria Mokotów in Warsaw and Korona in Wrocław.

This was followed in 2003 by the takeover of Krewetka multiplex in Gdańsk, then owned by Superkino (part of Vision Film Distribution company).