British Polish Chamber of Commerce

Twenty members took part in the first event after the summer break in the Women Only series of events which took place on Thursday, 22 September, at the HAPPYMORE Institute, on ul. Elektoralna 26/31, Warsaw.

The BPCC and law firm Clifford Chance organised a seminar at the British Embassy on 29 September to consider the effects that implementing CRD III would have on the Polish banking sector.

Manufacturing downturn deepens as new orders fall further

Though the Polish economy closed the year of 2011 in quite a good shape, 
everything seems to indicate that 2012 will not witness continuation of the 
relatively high GDP growth.

The Russian footwear and accessories producer has announced the opening of 30 stores in selected shopping centers and galleries in 2012

A Polishsubsidiary of the biggest French brokerage groups, Gras Savoye has opened a foreign branch in Ukraine. The new Ukrainian unit follows up the development strategy of the group and is afurther confirmation of the fundamental value of the group – ‘remain close to the Client’.

Despite the fragile global economic climate, demand for modern industrial premises in Central Europe has continued to grow. In 2011, more than 3.2 million square metres of industrial stock was leased in Central Europe exceeding the previous take up record last seen at the market peak in 2008 when almost 2.8 million square metres was leased.

A rather weak sentiment was prevailing during first days of the last week. Investors were disappointed that during 
the G20 summit the non-European countries did not declare their eagerness to enlarge the IMF means, but called on 
the euro zone to take more actions in order to prevent to debt crisis from spreading into other economies. In the 
following days the market was paying increasingly more attention to the LTRO results.

CBRE today announced the following new appointments in the Warsaw Office.

Tenants are looking for space totalling 60,000 sqm. The City ranked 11th in a Tholons "Top 100 outsourcing destinations" global research. Jones Lang LaSalle is pleased to present its new research report focused on the city of Krakow “Kraków City Report”. The release of this informative and opinion-led real estate report coincides with the publication of Tholons Top 100 outsourcing destinations, in which Krakow was ranked 11th.