Austrian companies eye up Warsaw Stock Exchange

Parkiet has learnt that several foreign companies are considering debuting on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), including Austria's Wienerberger, one of Europe's largest construction materials companies. "The interest of foreign companies to list their shares on Warsaw's bourse is at a record high," said Jarosław Ostrowski of the Securities and Stock Exchange Commission. "The companies want to be listed simultaneously in Warsaw and on their domestic markets, although we have also conducted talks with companies which plan an IPO here," Ostrowski added. The companies most interested in listing their shares on the WSE are from Austria, and include BACA bank, which is already has some listings in Warsaw, Raiffeisen which plans to do so next year and Wienerberger, a company listed in Vienna with capital of around EUR 2 billion. (Parkiet, p. 1) A.K.