In Brief: Karen Notebook losses; Huta Katowice layoffs; Relpol investor

Polish steel mill Huta Katowice spokesman Jaroslaw Zwolinski said that by the end of the year the firm will layoff about half of its staff reducing the number of employees from 14,300 to 7,000. (Rzeczpospolita, page B2) ... On Monday a group of still unnamed investors purchased a 15% stake in Polish electromagnetic relays producer Relpol. Krzysztof Prucnal the firm's president declined to respond to daily Rzeczpospolita allegations that the stake was purchased by the current firm's supervisory board members. (Rzeczpospolita, page B6)