PAIiIZ concluded 64 projects worth EUR 1.75 billion in 2016

The Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ) last year completed 64 investment projects worth a total of EUR 1.745 billion (an increase of 128 percent y/y) which guaranteed some 16,047 new jobs (an increase of 78 percent y/y), said Krzysztof Senger, the vice president of PAIiIZ "The value of the investment made and the number of guaranteed jobs created in the closed investment projects in 2016 was the third best result in history," said the director of the department of foreign investment Iwona Chojnowska-Haponik during a press conference. "As much as 31 percent of all the investment projects were located in special economic zones (SEZ) and 39 percent of investors have benefited from a government grant program," stressed Chojnowska-Haponik. The agency also said that it currently provides services to 198 investment projects worth over EUR 4.3 billion and potential employment of 51,000 people, which is - as pointed out by Senger - "an absolute record."