In brief: WSiP publishing; 4Media and Ahoj; Elektrim wants distributors
Two major international publishing companies, Pearson Education and Wolters
Kluwer, are among the seven bidders for an 80% stake in Poland's largest
textbook publishing company Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne (WSiP). This
is already the second tender for WSiP after the first one was annulled by
the Treasury Minister last year. (Rzeczpospolita, p.B3) ... Chemiskor, a
media company soon to change its name to 4Media, is interested in acquiring
the ailing Ahoj.pl portal from Mothership Poland. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p.5)
... Telecom and energy group Elektrim, together with the Patnow-Adamow-Konin
(PAK) power plants, in which it has a 38.5% stake, has filed an initial bid
for the G-8 group of eight power distributors from northern Poland. (Prawo i
Gospodarka, p.12) T.J.
