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151 investment projects

Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency has currently been running 151 investment projects worth jointly EUR 5.7 billion which may generate nearly 40 thousand new jobs.

The majority of the investments comes from the US: 43 projects worth jointly EUR 1.38 billion will create 8547 new jobs. On the second place there is United Kingdom (16 projects, total value EUR 373 million, 5802 new jobs). Third is Germany (16 projects,  EUR 525 million, 4527 jobs) followed by China (10 projects worth EUR 207 million, 1271 jobs).
Among the most popular sectors the first place is taken by the  automotive (29 projects, total value of EUR 1.9 billion, 11444 jobs), followed by the BPO (28 projects, EUR 27 million 6457 jobs), the machine sector (11  projects, EUR 654 million, 2909 jobs) and R&D (8 projects worth EUR 11,1 million, 795 jobs).

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The inflow of foreign direct investments (FDI) to Poland in the period of January-November 2011 amounted to EUR 9.38 billion - 3.2 bn (54%) more than in the previous year. (PAIiIZ/MG)

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5th International Conference and Exhibition AIRPORT 2012

On February 16th 2012, at Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science, the Polish Monthly RAPORT, Skrzydlata Polska Aviation Magazine and Warsaw Exhibition Board S.A. organize the International Conference and Exhibition AIRPORT 2012.

This initiative is aimed at promoting and popularising issues connected with the plans for building, modernizing, and equipping airports as well as airport infrastructure and related infrastructure in Poland.

Among the invited guests there are: representatives of the government, local government and cities; authorities, boards of regional airports, airline representatives, companies operating in the construction, IT and aviation sectors.

The programme of this-year’s event includes: new technologies and trends in the managing of air traffic control in Europe, airport expansion, new terrorists threats to air traffic and its development in Europe and technologically advanced means of prevention.

More information: Agnieszka Nieradko, +48 22 8496006.  (ZTW)

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Investments in 2012

Investments in 2012 - optimism prevails!

It will be more difficult but not worse - in this way the PAIiIZ president, Sławomir Majman, summed up the experts’ discussion on 2012 foreign direct investment inflows forecasts.

The conference „What will 2012 bring for the investment sector?”, held on January 12th 2012 at the PAIiIZ seat, was to discuss changes that are likely to occur in the FDI inflow this year.

All the speakers agreed that turbulences on the global market and diminution of Poland’s investment incentives are factors that can have substantial influence on the level and structure of the foreign direct investments. Teresa Kamińska, the President of the Pomeranian Special Economic Zone, underlined that one of the key factors for investors is stability - not only financial or political but also legal. Therefore, an uncertain future of the Special Economic Zones (SEZ), that are due to end in 2020, do not encourage current investors to further develop their business in Poland. The SEZ, from the very beginning of their existence, were one of the most important investment incentives. Thus, no clear information about their fate can have a negative effect on the Poland’s appeal for the investors. Listing positive symptoms, she mentioned development of harbours in Poland that already receive the largest units. Thanks to that, Poland has an opportunity to become a transit centre and receive more and more investments from the logistic sector.

From the left: Adam Żołnowski - PwC, Marek Łyżwa - PAIiIZ Vice-President, Janusz Jankowiak - Chief Economist, Polish Business Roundtable, Paweł Tynel - E&Y,  prof. Ryszard Michalski - Director of the Institute for Market Research,  Marek Cieślak - First Vice-President of Łódź City, Teresa Kamińska -Presient of Pomeranian SEZ Board,  Sławomir Majman - President of PAIiIZ Board.

As it was mentioned by the PAIiIZ’s President Sławomir Majman, the EU funds for supporting large investments will end this year - the last call for proposals is going to take place this month. PAIiIZ will be able to carry on doing its job, yet it will have less and less instruments - as it was summed up by Paweł Tynel, the Head of Grants and Incentives Advisory Services Department, Ernst & Young.
Adam Żołnowski, Director in PwC, drew attention to good sides of the crisis: - American investor, that we have been cooperating with for some time already, is able to purchase an investment area for 20-30% less now than a couple of months ago. He underlined also that the government grants played a very important role for the investors - last week three companies - Samsung, PGW and TJX received a government support in the framework of a multi-year programme. These grants do not constitute a substantial financial support but are a signal for the foreign investors that the government supports their activities. Janusz Jankowiak, Chief Economist in the Polish Business Roundtable, sees a risk in a unit cost of working that are prone to considerable changes - There is still enough room for manoeuvre in comparison to the developing countries but not necessarily to our neighbours - he said.

Experts’ opinions on the geographical structure of the FDI inflows in 2012 were divided: it was pointed out that foreign investments flows can be expected from big European countries and the USA but also from Latin America and Asian countries with special stress on China.

2012 FDI inflows forecasts were in the most part relatively positive. President Kamińska said that judging from the situation in the Pomeranian SEZ this year will not be worse from the previous one. According to prof. Ryszard Michalski, Director of the Institute for Market, Consumption and Business Cycles Research (IBRKK) 2012 will be the year of decreasing prices for the land and workforce, as an effect of a weak currency (PLN). Janusz Jankowiak paints the nearest future in rather break colours: - 2012 will be slightly worse that 2011 with further deterioration of Polish net investment position - he said. The representatives of the consultancies cooperating with foreign investors were of the opposite opinion.

They mentioned that currently Poland is in the lead among the countries the most often chosen by foreign investors as their investment locations. It is a clear improvement in comparison to the situation that we witnessed a couple of years ago when Poland was being rejected at a very early stage of selection. Adam Żołnowski from PwC stated that 2012 will not be worse than 2011. Paweł Tynel expects that this year will be competitive but he does not exclude some deterioration after 2014.

Last year proved very good for foreign investments - despite the global economic crisis the investment projects concluded with the participation of the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency in 2011 consist 173% of 2010 value (PAIiIZ)

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Tuesday night, 1/24/12 

Thursday, 1/26/12 

When there are job shortages, there are plenty of candidates who meet the basic 

employer needs - so it takes more than skills to win. 

The candidates who win jobs have 2 things in common: 

1) They have better information than their competitors 
2) They understand the employers' hiring processes (both formal and informal) 

   better than their competitors 

Why let others beat you in the job market, when you can learn how to get your resume seen more often, get more interviews, and beat the job market in 2012? 

Career advice by live webinar at 

http://ResumeWebinar.com

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Why Poland?

Why Poland?

Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency in co-operation with PwC consulting company released second edition of Why Poland - guide for foreign investors.

The publication presents Poland as an ideal location for investments pointing out country’s economic stability, educated people, strategic location and investment incentives. It includes also the information on Poland’s strategic sectors - e.g. automotive, BPO, aviation, IT, electronics and R&D.

From the left: Olga Grygier-Siddons - President of PwC in Poland, Sławomir Majman - President of PAIiIZ, Marek Łyżwa - Vicepresident of PAIiIZ

Why Poland is published in English. The electronic version is available here: www.paiz.gov.pl/publications/about_poland.

The publication was presented during the conference which was held on December 13th at the PAIiIZ premises. Among the speakers there were: Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy Ms Ilona Antoniszyn-Klik, Bridgestone Board Member Mr Takayasu Iwata, professor Witold Orłowski, Director at PwC Adam Żołnowski and Tobiasz Kowalski from Samsung Electronics Poland Manufacturing. (PAIiIZ)

From the left: Takayasu Iwata - Bridgestone Board Member, Adam Żołnowski - Director at PwC, professor Witold Orłowski, Ms Ilona Antoniszyn-Klik - Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy, Tobiasz Adam Kowalczyk - Samsung Electronics Poland Manufacturing, Sławomir Majman - President of PAIiIZ

Investor at the Kraków Technology Park increases employment

Ericpol Telecom a company active in the Park launches a new recruitment process and plans to hire 250 persons over the next few months.

This year the company has hired over 200 engineers but the demand on Polish specialist has been growing. By the end of 2012 the company will hire experienced programmers, analysts, testers and graduates of IT and electronic faculties. Due to the fact that future Ericpol Telecom employees will have to cooperate with international teams, the employees have to know English.

Ericpol is the biggest Polish IT exporter and provider of outsourcing and consulting services. The company has production centers in Belarus, Ukraine and Sweden. At the moment Ericpol hires 1200 people. (KPT)

Financial Times promotes Poland

Financial Times

On November 2^nd, 2011 Financial Times issued a special report “Investing in Poland” . The Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency cooperated with the Financial Times in the field of Poland's promotion in the report.

The report which provides useful information concerning investment conditions in Poland has been issued by FT for several years now.

This year PAIiIZ like in previous editions of the report cooperated with FT.
We helped publish a text Poland: A haven for investors by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Mr Waldemar Pawlak.

The report is available for download:

www.ft.com/cms/s/2/70beb51a-0429-11e1-98bc-00144feabdc0.pdf
                                   
(PAIiIZ)

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16 new investment projects at PAIiIZ

The Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency has currently been running 161 development projects. Within the last 3 weeks the Agency started 16 new projects.

The projects we have now been supporting are jointly worth EUR 6027.64 million. Investors declare to create 47,849 new jobs.

No changes were recorded in the group of investors who constitute the most numerous group interested in investing in Poland - still Americans top the ranking with 42 projects. The projects from the USA are jointly worth EUR 1.1 billion and are expected to generate 10,035 new jobs. The second most numerous group of projects run by PAIiIZ by country constitute projects from the UK (17 projects worth EUR 377.8 million and expected 6,252 jobs). The UK is followed by Germany (14 projects, EUR 481.8 million and possible jobs for 4,422 people), China (12 projects), South Korea (11) and Japan (10).

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The most popular sector to invest in is the automotive industry (31 projects worth EUR 2283 million and 15,132 jobs), BPO (29 projects worth over EUR 33 million and jobs for 9,372 people) and the machine industry (13 projects worth EUR 677.8 million, 3,496 jobs). Moreover, investors often choose Poland to locate here their projects in the electronic sector and in ICT (PAIiIZ runs 8 projects in each of the sectors).

In 2011 the Agency has already closed 45 investment projects worth a total of EUR 10642.2 million. Thanks to the projects there will be 8, 996 jobs created in the country.

Data published by the National Bank of Poland (NBP) shows that FDI inflow to Poland between January and August 2011 reached EUR 5.2 billion (EUR 5.229 million) what accounts for 128% of FDI inflow recorded in the same time of the previous year and 78% of the whole inflow of 2010. (PAIiIZ)

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