Whirlpool's new cooker factory spearheads it expansion

Last year the company decided that this was the budget to launch the production of cookers, develop existing production of fridges and expand its Wrocław excellence center. The enterprise expects that it will complete all the projects by 2008, which will further develop its 20% market share. "Whirlpool was to manage the project in a way that would encourage subcontractors to invest in Poland, none of them opted to follow the lead and invest," said Paweł Panczyj from Wrocław's president office. The decision about investing in Lower Silesia made by Whirlpool and Spanish Fagor, recently encouraged LG Electronics and its subcontractors to invest in the region. The total planned investment projects, which are either already located or might be located in Lower Silesia, are valued at over zł.4 billion. (Puls Biznesu, p. 7) M.M.