Polish companies lead in CEE

According to a report from Coface, published by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily, Polish companies are the leaders among the biggest companies in Central-Eastern Europe. The lone leader in the above mentioned region is Polish PKN Orlen which specializes in oil processing and distribution. Although the company’s income decreased in 2013 by 5 percent, it still remains ahead of the runner-up Hungarian MOL (operates in the same sector as PKN Orlen). The third place went to the Czech Republic’s Škoda Auto. Last year, the biggest employer was Polish Poczta Polska (state-owned postal service) with 92,000 employees. However, in the current year’s statistics the partnership did not outline its headcount, therefore allowing a Ukrainian transportation company Donetska Zaliznytsya (62,000 employees) to take the lead. In the second place was Polish Kompania Węglowa, the biggest European mining company. In total, among 500 companies from the Central-European region, 148 were Polish companies (171 in 2013), constituting 30 percent of all companies included in the report. The report included such countries as Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.