In Brief: Anti TP SA alliance; Stalowa Wola Mill; Pozmeat

Representatives of Dialog, NASK, Aster, Netia, GTS, Energis, UPC, Onet and Interia discussed a common strategy and undertook to conduct collective future negotiations with TP SA. If talks fail they said they would take their case to the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection. (www.gazeta.pl) ... Stalowa Wola Steel Mill (HSW) has won a new contract, under which it will export machinery worth USD 30 million to Angola and will most probably sign a USD 50 million contract with a Syberian coal mine belonging to Uralska Gorno-Metalurgiczeskaja Kompania. The latter may also be interested in privatizing some of the HSW subsidiaries or even the company itself. (Puls Biznesu, p. 6) ... One of the shareholders of Pozmeat, BRE Bank, accuses the former president of the meat producer of mismanagement that resulted in losses amounting to zł. 51 million. The bank's representatives argue that Pozmeat had undertaken an excessively costly investment project in Robakowo, which eventually led to serious indebtedness and a lasting crisis in the company. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 22) M.K./K.J.