“The Polish clearing system is a strong point of the country’s banking system. Fortunately, no expense has ever been spared for its constant modernisation and expansion. We can now be satisfied with the results,” says Kazimierz Małecki, President of the National Clearing House (KIR SA).

The Polkomtel SA philosophy of operation makes all Poles our target group. We do not narrow down our target group, though we started out as a company that addressed its services mainly to the business community. Right now there are no such preferences. It is clear that the ordinary mobile users often order the same services as business users do – says Wojciech Dylewski, board member and operations director at Polkomter SA, the operator behind the Plus network launched in 1996.

“Euro adoption in Poland will be a challenge and a great chance for banks to show their role, potential, abilities and friendliness to clients, who will be expecting support from the banking sector,” Mariusz Mastalerz, Managing Director at PKO BP SA, who manages the Cash Management Centre, tells Jerzy Bojanowicz.

Who stands to gain and who stands to lose? Which sectors will collapse and which ones will thrive? Which countries and regions will experience an economic slowdown and which will stay in good shape despite the crisis? Facing forecasts of lean years ahead Polish exporters wonder whether to weather the crisis doing business on present markets or whether to seek new markets.

At a news conference in Warsaw held by the Polish Chamber of Commerce and devoted to the current economic situation in the face of the world financial turmoil, the situation was described as not so much a crisis, but a cyclical slowdown bound to happen regardless of the global financial turmoil.

Aluron has been granted a permission to start business activities in the Katowice Special Economic Zone. Its new investment project is to be located on an area recently included in the zone. In Zawiercie Aluron is to construct a factory which is to produce metal elements for construction woodwork and metal structures. The investment is estimated to cost 30.5 million PLN and 60 workers are expected to find employment in the plant.

The Polish Ministry of Regional Development informs that Norway has accepted some 300 Polish projects relating to environment protection, health care, education and the Schengen zone to the tune of EUR 340 million.

DB Schenker is the first Polish company in the TSL sector (transport, shipping, logistics) that has succeeded in achieving the EFQM Excellence Award. The EFQM Excellence Award is Europe’s most prestigious award for organizational excellence being an impartial recognition of a company’s exceptional organization with sustainable results across all areas, including leadership, partnership, policy and strategy and highly effective, efficient and continuously improved management system.