In brief: Lot Call Centre; Cisco; Gas price hike; Okocim advertises alcohol

LOT Polish Airlines is a launching a Call Centre Nov. 1 for telephone reservations and information. (Prawo i Gospodarka, Oct. 28-29, p. 3)... A Cisco Networking Academy has been opened at the Warsaw-based Polish-Japanese School of Information Technology (PJWSTK), the eleventh such Cisco institution in Poland. The Academy provides training for IT managers administering modern networks. (Prawo i Gospodarka, Oct. 28-29, p. 4)... Despite the fact that for the first time in months petroleum refineries have not hiked the wholesale price of fuel, gas station owners have raised their prices, blaming past price perturbations. Privately owned stations are selling fuel at a relatively lower price. (Prawo i Gospodarka, Oct. 28-29, p. 2)...There has been less interest than anticipated in shares of Bank Pekao S.A. recent issue of series A and D share. The price per share had been expected to be not less than zl. 54, but the price has been reduced to zl. 49. (Prawo i Gospodarka, Oct. 28-29, p. 1)... An appeals court in Krakow has ruled that brewer Okocimskie Zaklad Piwowarskie, the producer of Okocim beer, had purposely designed its ads for non-alcoholic beer to influence sales of its alcoholic beer as well. Advertising alcohol is illegal in Poland, and following the intervention of the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), the court concluded the deception in the graphics and slogans of the ads contained sufficient evidence to suggest Okocim was on a collision course with the law. (Gazeta Wyborcza, Oct. 28-29, p. 28).