Strength of domestic business indicates that boom is just around the corner

The paper's second major assessment of Polish business indicates that domestic enterprises are faring well in the free economy. Family-owned companies and those with strictly Polish capital are improving their situation. According to experts it proves that Poland is on the verge of an economic boom. Average sales increase in 2003 amounted to 20% among the 100 largest companies, while a year earlier the figure stood at 12%. Among the 50 most dynamically developing companies, 30 were controlled by the domestic capital. There are 100 family-owned companies on the list that produced revenues of around zł.17 billion or some 2% of total sales of the 2,000 firms. The majority of them operate in the trade, food and wood processing sectors. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) M.M.