Polish businesses’ positive evaluations up – KPMG

Over half of Polish family businesses surveyed in a recent poll had a positive view of their operations in 2016, according to management consultancy KPMG, the Polish press reported on Wednesday. The survey measured factors including increases and decreases in the number of employees and in foreign operations, as well as in-flows of revenues. “Family businesses in Poland assessed their situation and looked to the future with much greater optimism than a year ago. This attitude of Polish respondents may be explained by better results in the area of ​​income, employment and foreign business,” said KPMG’s Andrzej Bernatek in the release. According to the report, overall “positive” evaluations were given by 56 percent of respondents, an increase of almost one-tenth over a year earlier. Only three percent claimed that their business situation was “very bad.” Some 42 percent had reported increases in revenues, while 21 percent had reported declining incomes (37 percent maintained the same level of revenues). The survey covered 900 family businesses.