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SKOTAN Skoczów-based Skotan is a tannery plant that specializes in leather production for shoes, and other raw materials for the shoe and clothing industries. The firm sells 90-95% of its products to shoe makers and is Poland's largest leather exporter. Its exports constitute nearly a half of the company's production and is aimed at EU and US customers. Skotan's management has announced a possible cooperation with Alchemia SA, in order to invest in bio-fuels. The details of the agreement have not been revealed.
KOMPAP Łód-based Kompap is an enterprise that combines production and trading operations. The firm's basic products are forms, paper for computer printers and paper rolls. Kompap's products are meant entirely for the domestic market. The firm's distribution chain is nationwide, including regions in central and southern Poland. The main shareholder is private investor Ryszard Krauze from Prokom Investments.
ALCHEMIA Brzeg-based Alchemia, formerly Garbarnia Brzeg, deals with the production and trade of manmade materials and the metallurgical and fuel sectors. Alchemia has already purchased Huta Batory ironworks, which is a part of the company's expansion plans in 2006. Alchemia also announced it is going to invest in bio-fuels along with Skotan. Both companies are controlled by a well-known Polish investor, Roman Karkosik.
SIMPLE Sells management suppport software aimed at small and medium-sized firms. The company also represents ROSS Systems, a subsidiary of the US-based software maker Renesans CS, whose clients are mostly large and very large enterprises. Central Poland is the firm's main market. In December 2005 Simple appointed Janusz Bšk to become the company's CEO.
MUZA Warsaw-based Muza operates in the publishing and printing markets. It is one of Poland's largest publishing houses the domestic market. The firm sells guides, encyclopedias and literature. The company signed a contract with EMPiK in 1999 and established Polish book distribution firm Polska Dystrybucja Ksišżki, in which MUZA holds a 51% stake.
Bottom 5 losers
HOGA.PL Warsaw-based Hoga.pl offers IT services via the internet. The company runs the Hoga.pl web portal, offers hosting services and web trading tools. On January 12 the company reported that the Head Office of State Archives chose to implement Hoga's database system IntraDok in all of its local offices in Poland. The Head Office of the State Archives is also using another of Hoga's systems to operate through BIP - the public information newsletter.
EFEKT This Kraków-based firm's key activity is providing services for the commercial sector (such as the rental of trading premises and retail stands and intermediary services in the trading of goods) and retail and wholesale trading in bulk goods (sugar, mineral fertilisers). Efekt made an agreement with Agro-Efekt SA and jointly started preparations to launch a Centrum Biznesowo-Hotelowe (Business and Hotel Center). The firm mainly operates in southern Poland.
INTERIA.PL Kraków-based Interia.pl is one of the major Polish internet portals. The company was established in 1999 as a joint-venture of ComArch and RMF FM radio station. In 2001 it became a listed company. The firm's newest project, an e-telecommunication platform, has been in its 'beta' phase for approximately three weeks now.
FERRUM Katowice-based Ferrum is a processing plant specializing in manufacture of steel pipes for the construction of gas, water and oil pipelines, and the production of pressure containers. It is one of the largest producers of pipes in Poland. The company has its key customers in the gas sector. Ferrum steelworks operate both on domestic and foreign markets. The company's main export markets are Germany and Denmark. On January 11, Ferrum signed a contract to deliver 15,000 pipes to the Danish Logstor A/S. The deal is worth R9 (zł.34.7)million.
POLIMEXMS Warsaw-based Polimex focuses mainly on engineering and construction devoted to the oil, gas and chemical industries as well as the energy sector. Polimex group subsidiaries deliver appliances such as kilns or waste incinerators, and also large metal objects such as portcullises. Polimex also conducts its own construction activities.
