Interia.pl's public offer to be aimed at external investors

Today's extraordinary general shareholders meeting of the third largest domestic Internet portal Interia.pl is to decide upon a capital increase in the company through a September public offering. The Kraków-based company plans to sell 1.9 million shares and increase its capital by zł.6.5-8.46 million. All shares will be offered to new investors, as the current ones, ComArch and RMF FM, do not have enough funds for the transaction. Tomasz Jażdżyński the president of Interia.pl has not revealed what sum is need by the company and what the funds will be used on. However, it was earlier revealed that the dotcom plans to introduce broad Internet access. "The size of the issue will depend on the investment potential. We are currently in negotiations and we are planning several projects. Taking into account the competition I do not want to reveal what these are," said Jeżdżyński. (Parkiet, p. 3) A.K.