Warsaw Bourse Eyes Ten Debuts of Foreign Firms to End-Year The Warsaw Stock Exchange listed on own market invited investment bankers and representatives of companies from, among others, Ukraine, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Croatia and Cyprus to a meeting in May where the opportunities for listing those enterprises on the WSE will be discussed. Companies are not satisfied with investors'…
FUPH Lokas in the Kraków Technology Park FUPH Lokas got the business activity permission in March. The company, which operates in the plastic materials sector, declared to invest PLN 1.3 million. The investor will construct its facility and create 2 workplaces in the Zator subzone, one of the youngest and fastest-developing subzones of the Park. (Kraków Technology…
World Bank – Poland to see ‘solid’ growth this year and next The World Bank has issued a report which forecasts 4 percent GDP growth this year in Poland and stable growth for the next two years. The report, released on Tuesday, also forecasts 4.2 percent growth in Poland in 2012, one of the most impressive performances in the EU. On average,…
Sale of Lotos Unlikely in 2011 Poland is unlikely to privatize listed fuel group Lotos by the end of 2011 but, when the process gets going, a potential investor will be expected to announce a tender offer on 100% of Lotos shares yet keep the company on the WSE, deputy Treasury Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski told reporters.…
Polish sausages rubberstamped by EU The two sausages, named ‘mysliwska’ and ‘jalowcowa’, will now carry the EU logo and are ‘Traditional Specialty Guaranteed’. Out of over a thousand regional products on the EU’s books, only 26, including the sausages, are of Polish origin. In the European Commission documents on the products, we can read that…
Polish children socially active on the web Polish children are among the most represented group on social networking sites among European kids in the 9-12 age bracket, a new report from the European Commission shows. The European Commission survey found that 58 percent of Polish youngsters have personal profiles on such major sites as Facebook, MySpace, Netlog…
Polish women becoming main breadwinners Polish women are increasingly becoming the main family breadwinners as more and more of them are earning more than their husbands. While women in Poland still earn, on average, 23 percent less than men, they are quickly catching up as they take up higher posts, especially in business, and their…