Polmoses create a partnership to defend brand names

Eighteen spirit producers created a partnership Znaki Wspolne to protect the brand names of Polmos. They claim it is necessary as vodka producers divided brand names among themselves in July 1999, but Polmos and Husarz are still registered at PPS Polmos in Warsaw. All of the producers use them, but it is unknown, which of them has the right for those brand names. The director of PPS Polmos in Warsaw and president of Znaki Wspolne Henryk Tomasik said the partnership would take the rights for Polmos, Husarz and more than ten other brands from Agros Holding and Pernod Ricard. They will succeed if the Constitutional Tribunal does not accept the President's veto of the industrial ownership bill. Polmoses are frightened that the fight with Agros for the brand names, may end with their exports being blocked by the holding, as every bottle is marked with the Polmos sign. (Puls Biznesu, page 5) M.M.