Orlen heads Rzeczpospolita's list of top 500 firms

PKN Orlen, the oil giant with zł.63.8 billion revenues held onto first place and is not threatened to lose the top spot, as it is followed by Polska Grupa Energetyczna which had 2007 revenues of zł.28.3 billion and Telekomunikacja Polska in third place with zł.18.2 billion. According to analysts, this year's list differs from the previous as it shows that domestic enterprises made great strides in improving profitability as well as their willingness to expand on foreign markets. The total revenues of the 500 corporations grew from zł.859 billion in 2006 to zł.991 billion in 2007. The number of state controlled enterprises on the list fell from 128 in 2002 to 81 this year. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B1) A.K.