Dębica clocks up its sales, but appears in the slow lane over dividend payout

The firm is going to invest zł.58 million in the development and modernization of its plant, zł.12 million less than in the previous year. This year is going to see the increase of Dębica's production capacity in the most lucrative sector of the market, namely tires for passenger cars and lorries. Apart from that, the producer is going to continue adapting its existing production lines to manufacturing high performance tires, which is currently the most rapidly developing sector of the market in Europe. In 2004 Dębica's revenues increased to zł.1.4 billion, as compared to less than zł.1.3 billion in 2003, but it is still unclear whether the company will pay out dividends from its 2004 profit (Parkiet, p. 5) A.F.