In brief: WSK Gorzyce; WSiP; two consortia chosen for steel sector; TPSA
U.S.-based auto parts supplier Federal-Mogul's German unit on Wednesday
agreed to buy from the Treasury an 85% stake in peer domestic producer WSK
Gorzyce for $18 million. (Reuters; Prawo i Gospodarka, p.2) ... The Treasury
's shortlist of investors for privatizing the textbook publisher WSiP
includes three entities, each of them offering around zl.250 million: Agora
S.A., and the consortia Polskie Ksiazki Edukacyjne and Polskie Towarzystwo
Edukacyjne. (Rzeczpospolita, p.B1) ... The Treasury said on Tuesday it had
shortlisted two foreign consortia, the trio of German ThyssenKrupp, French
Usinor and Luxemburg's Arbed, and the Indian steel maker Ispat, to make bids
for the country's major steel mills Katowice, Sendzimir, Florian and Cedler.
(Reuters) ... A consortium of Credit Suisse First Boston and Wielkopolski
Bank Kredytowy has been chosen to advise the Treasury in the second stage of
privatizing Polska Telekomunikacja S.A., a spokesman from WBK said. (Prawo i
Gospodarka, p.11). M.T.
