In Brief: ZUS & mining debt; TPSA billing system; Sara Lee & Prima
The mining sector has signed an arrangement with Social Insurance Company
(ZUS) for restructuring zl.5.1 billion of debt. Of the total, zl.3.2 billion
will be cancelled and zl.1.9 billion will be repaid by the end of 2007. (Rz
eczpospolita, p. B2) ... The value of the contract for supplying a billing
system for TPSA has been estimated by analysts from the Schroders Salomon S
mith Barney bank at zl.500 million. A short-list of three companies bidding
for the contract will be ready by the end of October. (Puls Biznesu, p. 4)
... The Dutch affiliate of US company Sara Lee Corp. will by the end of Dec
ember purchase coffee producer Prima, which is based in Sulaszewo in western
Poland. Prima, which controls 18% of the Polish coffee market, achieved rev
enues last year amounting to $45 million. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 4) M.T.
