In Brief: Polfa Pabianice; Media Monitoring ad report; Hoop share issue

Revenues from sales increased by 6.6% to zł. 74.7 million with exports surging 25.6%. (www.onet.pl)... Media Monitoring estimates that in the first half of 2003, expenditures for advertising amounted to zł. 5.23 billion. Food advertising consumed the largest amount of outlays, whereas the owners of mobile operator Era GSM, Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (PTC) is reported to be the largest advertisement provider who invested zł. 155.3 million. (www.onet.pl).... Institutional investors declared they are willing to take over 3 million shares of soft drinks producer Hoop in its new new share issue. (Parkiet, p. 4) A.Z.