In Brief: Oracle Polska; Opel staff reductions; Polish insurance collections up

Oracle Polska, the Polish subsidiary of the American IT giant and a leader in the Polish database market, expects at least a 10% increase in revenue this year. During a press conference Monday the company informed that it had increased its revenues in 2001 by 21% year-on-year, reaching zl. 270 million. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 18) ... Opel's Polish plant plans to reduce its payroll by 70 employees this month. According to Przemyslaw Byszewski, PR director of General Motors Poland, the reduction is connected to introduction of the Olimpia program, which in 2002 will limit production of the Agila model in Gliwice by 7,000 units. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 3) ... According to the Polish Chamber of Insurance (PIU), Polish insurance companies last year recorded an increase in the gross value of collected insurance premiums of nearly zl. 1 billion, at zl. 21.7 billion, compared to zl. 20.8 billion at the end of 2000. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 7) P.W.