If you think that it’s all doom and gloom today, what with the Greek financial crisis and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, think again. The World Bank may have announced that the world GDP shrank by 1% in 2009 for the first time in its history, but at the same time the European Comission and the OECD both gave Poland thumbs up for its growth rate, which the former projects at just under 3% this year, and the latter at over 3%. According to both institutions, Poland’s stable growth can be maintained until at least late 2012.

“Engine of the Year” is the most important sector contest, where the engines are marked by 65 motoring journalists from all over the world. Since the beginning of the contest in 1999 Toyota has collected 22 prizes in different categories. This year, apart from the prize for a sub1-litre engine, Toyota classified first in the category “Green Engine of the Year” for the “Toyota Hybrid Synergy Driver” which is a combination of electric and internalcombustion engine.

The Oil & Gas Exploration Company Cracow Ltd. (PGNiG SA Group) returns to Mozambique. The Company has signed a contract for exploration and horizontal drilling up to 2000 m with the international company SASOL Petroleum Temane Limitada, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sasol Petroleum International.

A clock was installed on the front wall of the Sport and Recreation Centre in the south-western city of Wałbrzych on July 28. It has started counting down the time to the grand opening of the Galeria Victoria entertainment and retail centre in Wałbrzych, planned on October 16. In addition, the “Jump on a billboard” campaign has been launched as a part of a campaign to promote the first shopping mall in the city. It is aimed at encouraging the inhabitants of Wałbrzych and the surrounding region to take part in a casting session to find the “faces of Galeria Victoria”. The organisers would like to invite all of the inhabitants of the region to participate in the casting session because, as its slogan says, Galeria Victoria is to be “Mine, Yours, Ours”, becoming a significant part of public life and a focal point for the local community.

Over 280 contracts were signed in Poland in the first half of 2010 with the involvement of the Retail Department of the global consultant Cushman & Wakefield.

The Polish Mountains Hospitality Market report from Cushman & Wakefield shows that the region of the Polish mountains has considerable tourism potential. However, unlocking it fully, according to the report’s findings, is possible not only through extensive redevelopment and quality improvement to the existing hotel facilities, but most of all through substantial investment to transport and ski infrastructure.

A social project in the area of education, health and sport addressed to the population of Poland.
A concept for an innovative system of promoting health and physical activity among Poles
to be implemented as a pilot programme in Warsaw in the years 2010-2012 (1st stage)

On 25 March the residents of Poznań and the entire Wielkopolska region will be able to use the broad commercial and entertainment facilities offered by the Galeria Malta shopping mall in Poznań, which will then open its 170 shops and service outlets and make available a multitude of renowned Polish and international brands, all within the 54,000 sq. metres of the centre’s commercial space. The day of its opening will also be a day of many commercial premieres on the regional market of Wielkopolska.

The largest construction and interior exhibition on the Internet kicks
off on March 9.