Action, the fastest growing non-food discounter in Europe, has passed its 2,000th store mark with the opening of the new outlet in Prague. The company is also continuing its dynamic growth in Poland. In 2021 Action opened a record number of 74 stores, debuting in all the country’s provinces and hiring 1,000 new employees. Last…
CD PROJEKT has decided to invest in a modern office building to be constructed by Skanska. The CD PROJEKT Group operates in the global, dynamically developing video games industry. The CD PROJEKT RED studio within the Group develops and publishes video games for personal computers and latest generation consoles. The studio is known around the…
Takeaways from the 7th BSS Forum Poland is still an attractive place for international companies to locate their shared services offices and business process outsourcing operations, according to speakers and participants attending the BSS Forum organized by Pro Progressio in Warsaw last month. According to PAIH (the Polish Investment and Trade Agency) there were 71…
The capital city of Lower Silesia hosts 17% of all Polish Artificial Intelligence startups. Wrocław is the fourth biggest city in Poland, with a population of 640,000. It also hosts 17% of all Polish Artificial Intelligence (AI) startups, surpassed only by the capital city of Warsaw with 23%. The startups are rapidly developing solutions to…
IBM Quantum Network & Poznań center become first quantum hub in CEE. In February 2022, the IBM Quantum Network was joined by the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center to become the first quantum hub in Central and Eastern Europe. It is affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry at the Polish Academy of Sciences and…
Anglo-Polish relations date back as far as the 11th century, when the first contacts were made during the reigns of King Ethelred II the Unready and Bolesław I the Brave. Things have moved on since then. With trade turnover having grown systematically since the 1990s, the UK is now Poland’s third most important trade partner….
One of the largest business events in Europe closed on April 26 in Katowice. The European Economic Congress (EEC) is undoubtedly a big event in Central Europe. Each year, several hundred panelists participate in over a hundred sessions and discussions. The congress was three days of debates and meetings, attended by more than 15,000 visitors…
Sylwia Ziemacka talked to Wouter Barmentloo, Managing Director of The Netherlands – Polish Chamber of Commerce. How are you performing in Poland? Today, the Netherlands Polish Chamber of Commerce has about 200 members. Most of those members are located in Poland, but all of them have a roots or connection with the Netherlands.We are very…
Most sectors of the real estate market remain stable despite unfavorable external factors. According to the latest EY report “Guide to the Polish real estate market 2023,” the war in Ukraine and the lingering economic effects of the pandemic have not shaken most sectors of the real estate market, with the exception of the residential…
In 2023, 100 jobs for innovators will be created at Łukasiewicz – Poznań Institute of Technology. The unit in Poznań is implementing the program of the Łukasiewicz Research Network, which intends to employ up to 2,000 scientists throughout Poland. “The market needs innovations based on scientific knowledge. This is evidenced by, for example, the Łukasiewicz…
Mlekovita, the leader of the dairy industry in Central and Eastern Europe, is not slowing down. During a meeting of Spółdzielnia Mleczarska Mlekovita (cooperative) on March 25, the President of the Management Board, Dariusz Sapiński, presented a report on the company’s activities, along with the results of 2022. “2022 was a special year for all…
MIPIM 2023 – the world’s largest real estate event, with 6,000 international investors and financial institutions, including 76 of the top 100 investment managers in the world, advising on managing assets worth EUR 4 trillion – was held, as usual In Cannes in March. Among the over 23,000 guests were delegates from over 90 countries…
