BRE's Q1 portends record year on strength of retail

"Over the recent quarter our retail sections - mBank and MultiBank - acquired almost 100,000 customers. We also intend to acquire over 2,000 corporate clients - companies with a turnover exceeding zl.3 million. One fourth of the plan was carried out in Q1," said Slawomir Lachowski, president of BRE Bank. He went on to say that some of the clients will be those taken on from merging competitors. "Taking into account the developments in the first months - [our goal of] achieving a zl.380-million gross profit this year is not in danger. Over 10% will be obtained from the retail sector. We want this share to grow to one-third," said Lachowski. The latter goal is likely to be achieved within three years. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 10) M.M.