Krzysztof Klicki is the President of Kolporter Holding

Kolporter Holding

Kolporter Holding is a Polish holding company. It was built in the 1990s by Krzysztof Klicki and has its headquarters in Kielce. It has made the Top 500 Polish Companies rankings in Polityka and Rzeczpospolita several times....

 S.A. He owns 100 percent shares of Kolporter's shares, the largest private distributor of the press (with more than 44 percent of the media market

Media market

A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...

).

He started Kolporter started after the free market

Free market

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 transformation in Poland, selling newspapers - in particular Gazeta Wyborcza

Gazeta Wyborcza

Gazeta Wyborcza is a leading Polish newspaper. It covers the gamut of political, international and general news. Like all the Polish newspapers, it is printed on compact-sized paper, and is published by the multimedia corporation Agora SA...

 - which he collected from Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

 overnight and sold in Kielce

Kielce

Kielce ) is a city in central Poland with 204,891 inhabitants . It is also the capital city of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Kielce Voivodeship...

 the next day (the name Kolporter means "distributor" in Polish). Now there are over a dozen companies in many sectors of the Polish market that are a part of Kolporter Holding S.A.

Klicki is a graduate of the Institute of Physics

Institute of Physics

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, Higher Pedagogical School in Kielce. He passed his Matura ('A' levels) at the Ogólnokształcącym V Liceum Fr. Peter Sciegiennego in Kielce. He and his wife (they married right after graduating from high school) have three daughters.

As of July 2010, Krzysztof Klicki is one of the 100 richest Poles (in 22nd position) with commercial assets of around 900 million zloty.

Korona Kielce Football Club

Between the years 2002 - 2008, Klicki was a part-owner of Korona Kielce

Korona Kielce

Korona Kielce, , is a Polish football club, currently playing in the Ekstraklasa. In the years 2002-2008 Club belonged to Polish holding company Kolporter Holding and achieved its greatest success - in 2005, winning promotion to the first division...

football club. However, on 2 April 2008 he announced the withdrawal of sponsorship of Korona Kielce.