In Brief: Energis Polska; Verlagsgruppe Passau; PZU Życie's net profits

The Competition and Consumer Protection Office (UOKiK) will rule today on whether the acquisitions of newspaper publisher Verlagsgruppe Passau did not limit excessively the competition on local press markets in Poznań and Wrocław. According to Puls Biznesu, UOKiK could order the publisher to sell off some of its newspapers in those cities. (Puls Biznesu, p.13)... Leading life insurer PZU Życie recorded a net profit of zł.580.3 million last year, a 92% increase over 2002. The estimated net profit of the entire PZU group is likely to reach around zł.1.5 billion. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B5) T.J.