Moshe Podhorzer

Moshe Podhorzer was born 1945 in Israel. He is an entrepreneur, industrialist and a businessman.
Podhorzer was the CEO of Tempo Beverages, founded and owned Neviot (mineral water).
Biography
Podhorzer was born in Israel. He is the son of Sarah and the attorney Yehuda Aryeh Podhorzer.
After his military service, he studied economics and business administration at Bar-Ilan University and at the same time studied law at the University of Tel Aviv and received his law degree 1972. Toward the end of his studies and upon obtaining his lawyer's license, Podhorzer joined Tempo Industries Ltd. and served as the company's CEO for nearly 20 years until the early 1990s.
Tempo, under Podhorzer's management, was the first to introduce to the Israeli market the PET-bottled soft drinks instead of the glass bottles that were customary at the time by all soft drink companies.
In 1989, Podhorzer initiated, established, and privately owned the "Neviot" company, which within a short time managed to hold 50% of the market shares in Israel. After only three years from its establishment, in 1992, it was issued on the Israeli Stock Exchange.
In 2000, Podhorzer added the Coca-Cola company as a partner; Coca-Cola acquiring 40% of Neviot's stock. Podhorzer continued to serve as the company's chairman of the board. Following this agreement, Coca-Cola became the distributor for Neviot bottles.
In 2003, Podhorzer sold 45% of Tempo's stock held by him and his wife to other partners in the company.
In 2005, Podhorzer sold the remaining shares of Neviot to Coca-Cola and left the soft drink industry. That year, he was awarded the Kiryat Shmona City Notable, along with Shlomo Nehama who was the Chairman of the Board of Hapoalim bank at that time and Eli Horowitz, founder and CEO of Teva.
During those years, he began to engage in the field of real estate development in Spain and Cyprus, where he established projects for the construction of hundreds of resort units. In the United States and Europe, Podhorzer continues to invest in real estate by Podhorzer Holdings Ltd.
Podhorzer serves as a member of the executive committee and member of the board of trustees of Bar-Ilan University.
Podhorzer is married to Bilha, the daughter of Moshe Bornstein, the founder and owner of Tempo. Podhorzer lives in Tel Aviv and has four children: Eyal, Dana, Yossi and Yonatan. His son Eyal is the owner of Econergy Systems Ltd., which invests in the solar energy field in Israel and in Europe.

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