Wizz Air, the largest low-cost carrier in Poland and Central-Eastern Europe, is adding a fourth plane to their base in Warsaw, wnp.pl reports.

A modern Lampre shop floor will be constructed in the town of Kutno in central Poland as part of the Łódź Special Economic Zone. The factory will produce lacquered and PCV coated sheet metal plates.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and its Polish subsidiary PZL Mielec have announced the completion of final assembly on the first S-70iTM BLACK HAWK helicopter, an international variant of the BLACK HAWK helicopter.

The PKO BP capital group generated the highest result in the Polish banking sector in 2009 – PLN 8.9 billion. Its consolidated gross profit amounted to PLN 2.943 billion and net profit – PLN 2.306 billion, PKO BP announced at a press conference. This represents respectively PLN 1.034 billion (26%) and PLN 815 billion (26.1%) less than in 2008.

Cushman & Wakefield’s latest report on the real estate market Marketbeat – Spring 2010 presents an analysis of the office, retail, industrial, hospitality and residential markets as well as the investment market in Poland in 2009. The report also provides forecasts for the future development of the real estate sector.

Infrastructure, which a vast proportion of society does not realise, is an area of the economy in a considerable state of inertia. We need to cope with the results of an error committed in planning an investment project for forty to fifty years, or longer – Zbigniew Szafrański, President of PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA tells Polish Market’s Jerzy Bojanowicz.

”Growth in Polish construction output in 2009 was higher than in industry and the economy as a whole. The construction sector fared well indeed. This was to a great extent due to carrying out big infrastructural projects and EURO 2012-related ventures co-funded by the EU.

A Silesia Economic Forum was held in the southern city of Opole February 25-27. The economic potential of the Silesia macro region was discussed by entrepreneurs, scientists, local government representatives, MPs, MEPs, representatives of business institutions and financial institutions and diplomats from 63 countries.

Two-way trade between Poland and the UK continued to develop in 2009 in spite of the world downturn. It increased by GBP 100 million. 17 British greenfield investment projects were carried out by 15 companies in Poland in 2009.