VB Leasing business up a third in 2002 to zl. 311 million

The Polish subsidiary of Austrian-German VB Leasing plans to increase the value of assets leased to its customers in 2003 by 35%. Last year the company managed to lease goods worth zl. 311.3 million and record 20% growth in comparison to 2001. "This year we want to gain more strategic clients, whose turnover exceeds zl. 50 million a year, and increase our share of technology leasing," management board member Jaroslaw Borzymowski told a press conference. The new target group of customers will be gminas, which the company plans to offer leasing of sewage treatment plants and water pipelines. So far VB Leasing was mostly leasing cars and trucks, while technology accounted only for 13% of contracts value. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B7) M.M.