Section: Warsaw Business Journal (Poland)
Elements for success
Poland’s chemical industry is back on track for growth. It continues to improve its position globally with the help of strong investment and recent consolidation in the sector by Kamila Wajszczuk The chemical industry is a key sector in any economy, providing materials for many others from agriculture to electronics manufacturing. In...
“The EU is going through a big test” – interview with Pat Cox
Pat Cox, a former president of the European Parliament and a recent EU Special Envoy to Ukraine, discusses the face-off the West is now having with Russia over Kiev’s future, the radicalization of the political climate in Europe in the context of upcoming EP elections and whether the euro zone crisis is truly over Interview by Remi...
The world isn’t flat
Selena defies those who say Polish companies don’t have what it takes to become global players. Over its 20-year history the firm rose from local construction foam retailer to the world’s third-largest manufacturer of chemical adhesives Sergiusz Prokurat Krzysztof Domarecki studied law and philosophy some 30 years ago. In late 1980s...
Kulczyk: Europe needs to think globally
Poland’s richest man Jan Kulczyk, talks to WBJ Observer about his business plans for the future, his investments in Africa, Europe’s economic perspectives and what advice he would give foreign entrepreneurs who want to invest in Poland WBJ Observer: Your investments in African countries such as Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Mozambique...
Poland’s highway overhaul
Despite the huge amounts of money spent on Polish roads over the past few years, the country’s high-speed road infrastructure is still patchy at best, although the new EU budget for 2014-2020 promises to change this by John Beauchamp Ten years ago, traveling across Poland by car was the stuff of nightmares. Major east-west routes were...
What women want
Oksana Zharkova, head of Avon in Poland, the Baltic states and Finland, talks about a company famous for its print catalogs is surviving in the digital age, how women make decisions on which cosmetics to buy and how the beauty industry has changed in Poland and around the world over the years by Remi AdekoyaHow have clients of the cosmetics...
Nuclear Rising
For decades Poland’s nuclear power ambitions lay in ruins. Now, after years of neglect and exhaustive debate, it appears the atom will play a key role in the nation’s energy future by Jacek Ciesnowski A hole in the ground and some dilapidated ruins. That’s all there is left of Poland’s nuclear program. Between 1982-1990,...
United against Putin
Interview by Ewa Boniecka WBJ Observer: We are talking the day after Russia annexed the Crimea Peninsula and after a speech delivered by president Putin to the members of Russian parliament, in which he presented his plan for building a great Russia. Is this a turning point in international relations and does the West need a new policy regarding...
Ukraine: the fallout for the Polish economy
How badly could the current crisis in Poland’s eastern neighbor affect businesses here? by Remi Adekoya The beginning of the 21st century was a golden era for Polish exports to Russia and Ukraine. In 2013, Poland exported goods worth €8.1 billion to Russia, a 6.1 percent increase in comparison with the previous year. Between 2000 and...
