Business, Investments properties in Poland
According to the Portuguese weekly newspaper Expresso - Poland is a gate for investors from Portugal, who are planing to invest in Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus and Russia.
The newspaper notes that Polish economy has achieved immensly good results. The average growth of GDP in Poland between 2003 and 2008 was 5.2% annually. Meanwhile, in 2009 Poland was the only country which avoided recession.
It is also mentioned that the values of Portuguese Investments in Poland are systematically growing. The newspaper reports that the values of the investments between 2007 and 2011 continued to grow and increased to 721 millions of euro.
There are also mentions of more than 100 Portuguese companies, which successfully work on Polish market. Biedronka - the biggest company which has been on the working Polish market for 17 years was founded by Jeronimo group Martinis. Today currently employ almost 38K people.
Mr. Pedro Pereirę da Silvę, the operational director of Jernimo Martins Group in Poland, believes that the Polish market has still a huge potential and future perspectives. In his opinion, Poland is still a very attractive destination for foreign investors. Mr. Pereira da Silva thinks that not only it is a vast market with more than 40 millions of people, but it is also a gate to the East; there are about 150 millions of customers in this region.
Stable Poland.
According to the Portuguese enterprises mentioned by the newspaper – economy of Poland is stable and predictable. They also make a note of high competitiveness of Polish companies, caused by big investments in the field of staff training in recent years.
Expresso also notes increasing interest of Polish entrepreneurs in business cooperation with Portuguese investors in order to enter the market of former Portuguese colonies, primarily in Angola and Mozambique.
The last edition of Expresso included a guide with information about Polish economy, banking and taxation system, Stock exchange, as well as labour market.
A 48 pages addition widely informs about the law aspects in the area of starting a business, buying and renting real estate, as well as employing workers.
Expresso is the most read weekly newspaper in Portugal. It weekly reaches to 642K readers of a 10 million country.
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New investment quarter has started. The agency has received 9 new project, therefore now the PAIiIZ leads 175 investments in total. If all the projects, which total value equals to 3271,85 million euro, are implements, there will be 32 197 of new vacancies created in Poland.
Since the beginning of the year, the agency has implemented 10 projects (162,14 million euro of total value and 2 697 new vacancies). Those investors, who decided to invest to Poland have business in the following fields: aircrafts, BPO, entertaining-scientific, automotive industry, ICT and food processing industry.
The AHK Polska has published the data based on the 10th cyclical poll; a survey. which had been made among the foreign investors. According to the survey, for the third time, Poland has been chosen the best destination for the investors in Eastern Europe. As the chairman of the PAIiIZ Sławomir Majmam noted, receiving a gold medal is not something extraordinary, while being awarded for the third time is a real achievement.
The potential of Eastern European countries was evaluated by 116 entrepreneurships, which have business in the all regional throughout all of Poland. In the final evaluation, getting 4 points in total, Poland beat the following countries: Czech Republic (4 points), Estonia (4,97 points and Slovakia (2,96 points).
The results of the anniversary survey made by the AHK show that the foreign investors are pleased to work in Poland. About 95% percept of the respondents say that their companies are doing well. Michale Kern, the general director of the AHK Polska, says that it is worth emphasizing that 95% of the companies, who took part in this survey, affirmed their will to choose Poland as an investment destination country if they had to do made the decision today.
MTU Aero Engines investment is the eight and the latest successfully completed projects with PAIiIZ support. The company will spend €13,8 m and create 50 new jobs
The majority of completed projects in first quarter of 2015 are represented by BBS, R&D, ICT, automotive, aerospace, electronics and home appliances sectors. The total value of 8 projects reached €153.14m. Due to them, even 2,637 new jobs can be created.
Among 170 ongoing investments supported by the Agency, BPO and automotive sectors predominates. Each of the sector runs 32 projects. Next are: R&D with 19 projects, aviation with 13 projects and food sector with 12 projects. The total value of ongoing projects reaches €3065.45 m. Those investments may created even 30,061 new jobs in the future.
“For the first time in the history, Poland has been promoting itself as medical tourism destination. Due to the international promotion of the medical tourism sector, that lasted for 3 years, foreign audience discovered the potential of our country”, said PhD Ada Kostrz - Kostecka, head of the programme of promotion of Polish medical tourism on International markets 2012-2015 that was provided in cooperation of PAIIIZ. The conference summarizing the project was held on 18 March in PAIiIZ.
Representatives of medical tourism sector abroad and foreign journalist who visited Poland during study visits assess the offer of Polish medical tourism as very good. 12 trade fairs.
czytaj więcejRandstad presented the 25th quarterly report entitled “Employers’ plans”. This is a useful compass for employees. This time the plans of employment are the most optimistic since 6 years”, commented PAIiIZ president Sławomir Majman during the conference held on 9 March.
The first part of 2015 is expected to be very optimistic regarding the employment market. The percentage of employers willing to create new jobs (30%) is the highest since six years – in went up by 4% q/q. Also the number of companies planning to increase salaries in growing. Moreover, despite the lack of enthusiasm among entrepreneurs regarding the economic condition of Poland, there is a rising trend in defining the situation of their companies as good or very good.