Diora Świdnica resumes operation as a first step of takeover by another Polish hi-fi brand, Unitra. Unitra sp. z o.o. signed a lease agreement for Diora factory and re-hired about 50% of workforce which was laid off in July (see our post here).
According to Unitra’s board member and future Diora CEO CEO Daniel Kostrzewa, Unitra needs some time to valuate Diora assets before finalising the purchase.
Diora Świdnica was a branched business of state-owned Diora, major domestic audio producer in Poland for many years. Before filing bankruptcy in June 2025, the factory in Świdnica, Lower Silezia, was primarily doing OEM orders for loudspeaker industry and also some metalwork for OEM audio vendors. The financial results were not encouraging and the owner (state-controlled Agencji Rozwoju Przemysłu) floated the idea to re-organise the factory to produce PVC and aluminium windows. This meant letting go the staff trained in loudspeaker assembly, so Unitra stepped in to prevent that.
About 45–50 workforce was re-employed and a few OEM orders are now resumed at Diora. Some Diora designed loudspeakers, Polaris and Perun, are also aimed for production in the nearest future.
Reports indicate that Unitra have expressed interest in acquiring Diora Świdnica many months before bankruptcy but the talks with Agencji Rozwoju Przemysłu were difficult.
Polish journalists talked to Diora workers and, on the conditions of anonymity, some of them said, that the job contracts are trials and last only unitl November 10, but the new management promises their extension. All 115 former employees of Diora received severance compensation from the receiver in early October.
In a press-release Unitra states that rescuing Diora was a moral obligation to preserve labour experience of skilled workforce as a foundation for modernised and dynamic manufacturing facility for home audio equipment in Poland.
Written by Sergei Taranov
