Top 5 winners

DROP Established in 2000, Drop operates primarily in the field of waste wholesale, processing and disposal. The company started its activity by setting up collection centers for recyclable waste. In 2005, it developed technology to recycle metals and became one of the leading copper suppliers in Poland. Copper sales account for 68 percent of Drop's profits. The Warsaw-based firm debuted on the WSE in November 2007. Drop aimed to gain zł.44 million from the bourse, but managed just zł.6 million. The company earned zł.308.5 million in 2007 and zł.9.94 million in net profit.

KOLASTYNA Kolastyna Group is a leading manufacturer and retailer of beauty-care products. The company has a 21-percent share of the sun-screen products segment of the market. Kolastyna's portfolio includes the Laboratorium Kolastyna, Miraculum, Juliette Essayer, Pani Walewska, Brutal, Tanita and Paloma brands, which are sold in more than 30 countries throughout the world. Eastern Europe - especially Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania - are the largest importers of Kolastyna Group's products. In 2007, the group recorded a revenue of zł.88.979 million and its net profit amounted to zł.486,000.

REDAN Łódź-based Redan's main activity is the design and sale of clothes. Production is outsourced to more than 100 factories across Poland and abroad. Redan owns its own chain of shops, but also organizes and manages product delivery to distributors. Redan's main brands and shop chains are Top Hit, Top Secret and Troll. It also supplies its clothes to hypermarkets and discount shops. Founded in 1995, Redan entered the bourse in 2003.

RAFAKO Rafako is one of the largest Polish manufacturers of industrial and power-generation boilers. Rafako also supplies boiler pressure parts and offers diagnostics, repairs and overhaul of boilers and boiler auxiliaries. Its major targets are the domestic power industry and foreign suppliers of power facilities. The boilers are used in China, Turkey, India, Germany, Switzerland and Central and Eastern Europe. In 2007, Rakako recorded revenues of zł.969.503 million and its net profit amounted to zł.13.430 million.

PETROLINV Established in 1991, Petrolinvest was one of the first fuel-trading companies in the domestic market. The company focuses on liquid-petroleum gas and oil trade, which it supports with a wide network of terminals and warehouses. Petrolinvest's major trading partners are refineries in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Norway and Russia. The company debuted on the bourse in July last year. In 2007, the company had zł.221.3 million in revenues and a zł.17.03-million net loss.