Sylwia Ziemacka talked to Kustaa Valtonen, an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor, Founding Partner at Finest Bay Area Development; Peter Vesterbacka, Founder of FinEst Bay Area and Slush, also known as the Mighty Eagle at Angry Birds, for many years taking that brand to unprecedented heights; and Frank Schuhholz, Founder at FMS Advisers, an expert in…
Building bridges is something that the Dutch companies do very well at. With many economic, business and political challenges it is very important to be able to run effective dialogue followed by real actions. Sylwia Ziemacka talked to Wouter Barmentloo, Managing Director of The Netherlands – Polish Chamber of Commerce. Where do the Dutch see…
Poland is one of the largest and most important economic partners for France in Central and Eastern Europe. Our mutual economic relations have a long tradition and began long before Poland joined the European Union. France, according to the latest NBP data, is the second largest foreign investor, taking into account the origin of the…
Sylwia Ziemacka talked to Raymond Cloosterman, CEO of Rituals about happiness, wellbeing, daily pleasures and the success story that it has become. What made you start your own business and give up your previous corporate life? After finishing university, I joined Unilever corporate and I worked there for 12 years. This is where I made…
Nadia Hospodaryk is a textile designer and stylist from Lviv, based in Warsaw. She came to Poland 1 year ago and even though the day she left Ukraine was the first day of the Russian aggression against her country, the war wasn’t the primary reason for her moving. She had been planning it for quite…
A record 2 billion zlotys – €450 million – was invested by household appliances producers in Poland last year. This shows that the industry is betting on the country, despite the difficult situation in the entire industry and on the household appliances market. Sylwia Ziemacka talked to Wojciech Konecki, CEO of the Polish Association of…
The Polish warehouse market grew in 2022 and 2023 may be even more expensive. AXI IMMO presents the report “Polish Warehouse Market – Summary 2022.” By the end of December 2022, more than 4.4 million sqm (+42% y/y) of new space was completed, corresponding with strong activity by tenants, who leased nearly 6.7 million sqm…
Świętokrzyska Grupa Przemysłowa Industria and Rolls-Royce SMR have signed a Memorandum of Intent to collaborate on deploying small SMR modular reactors in Poland. Industria has selected Rolls-Royce SMR technology to fulfill the zero-emission energy goals of the Central Hydrogen Cluster in Poland, and as part of its plans to produce 50,000 tonnes of low-carbon hydrogen…
According to the data collected by McKinsey Health Institute, today, the vast majority of adults across the world can expect to live decades past retirement age. However, while global society should celebrate having, on average, an additional 20 years of life expectancy since 1960, it has not been as successful in extending the span of…
Among the European countries where investors expect the highest returns on real estate, Poland ranks fifth, according to the CBRE report “European Investor Intentions Survey 2023.” The more difficult economic situation on European markets is not a downer for everyone. Half of real estate investors expect their buying and selling activity to increase in 2023…
