Optimus' losses continue to mount

In Q1 the company's sales revenues continued to fall and amounted to zl.38.65 million as compared to zl.44.4 million a year ago. Optimus incurred a Q1 loss of zl.1.7 million, which is 300% higher as compared to Q1 2005 when the loss was zl.540,000. However, the company's president Michal Lorenc declared that the concern will become profitable in the second half of 2006. In order to achieve that, Optimus moved its production from Nowy Sacz to Skierniewice-based Zatra which will bring considerable savings. "We hope to produce 70,000 desktop and 20,000 laptops in 2006," stated Lorenc. The company's revenues this year are expected to reach zl.270 million. (Puls Biznesu, p. 12; Parkiet, p. 4) E.B.