In Brief: State-owned printers to merge; Piasecki; Crowley; Ukrainian gas

The state-owned printing houses Drukarnia Skarbowa and Polska Wytwornia Papierow Wartosciowych are to merge. This may be the government's way of monopolizing the market for public orders and eliminating foreign competitors. (Puls Biznesu, p. 4) ... Construction company PIA Piasecki is still in trouble as another of its contractors has broken its contract. The contract for the modernization of an olympic pool in Rawszczyzna, signed in August 2001, was worth zl. 31.1 million. (Puls Biznesu, p. 6) ... American telecommunications operator Crowley Data Poland, offering its clients wireless access to the Internet and broadband data transmission, wants to invest zl. 100 million nationwide for the new technologies. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 3) ... Ukrainian Prime Minister Anatolij Kinach has invited Poland to join the gas consortium which would manage Ukrainian transit gas pipelines. The other countries involved are Germany and Russia. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 3) A.D.