In Brief: Enterprise Investors; Stocznia Szczecinska; Kruk flotation

Enterprise Investors (EI) a large venture capital fund is interested in buying Aster City, the biggest Warsaw-based cable television operator, owned by Elektrim Telekomunikacja (ET). According to Iwona Drabot, a spokesperson for EI, the fund has already made an offer. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 2) ... Prime Minister Leszek Miller invited all the parties of the conflict around Stocznia Szczecinska to meet on Thursday. Treasury Minister Wieslaw Kaczmarek, helped the ailing Szczecin shipyard by increasing the capital of the Industrial Development Agency (ARP), which is to guarantee a loan for the shipyard, by $40 million. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 19) ... Yesterday the Stock Exchange Commission cleared for public trading shares of W.Kruk, a producer of luxurious goods. The company hopes to secure up to zl. 30 million through the sale of 678,000 shares. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 25, Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 6) P.W.