In Brief: Saint Louis Sucre offer; MAN-Star merger; pharmaceuticals lay-offs

Saint Louis Sucre yesterday proposed an arrangement for resolving the dispu te over its purchase of the Slaska Spolka Cukrowa (SSC) group. Under the pl an, the Treasury would offer the French company "collective shares" in SSC, in return for which Saint Louis Sucre would abandon its legal action, which is holding up the establishment of the Polski Cukier giant sugar holding. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 28) ... MAN Polska and Star Trucks will on Monday mer ge, forming a single company. MAN-Star Trucks will have its headquarters in Wolica near Warsaw. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 28) ... GlaxoSmithKline is to lay off 330 employees from its Poznan plant by the end of November. The company 's management explains that the lay-offs are necessary in order to increase efficiency and cut costs. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 4) M.T.