City of culture and history
Location: Southern Poland
Population: 757,000
192,000 students
23 universities and colleges
Investor focus: automotive, coal & mining, high-tech, manufacturing,
retail, chemicals
Biggest investors: Tesco, Philip Morris, Heineken, Ahold, BP, Bahlsen, Foster Wheeler, Valeant, IBM
BPO/SSC sector in Kraków: Ahold, Electrolux, Hewitt, IBM, Lufthansa, Philip Morris, Shell, Motorola, Sabre, Delphi, Google, Lufthansa, HCL Tech, Elletric 80
Krakow, located on the Wisła (Vistula) river, is one of the oldest cities of Poland, dating back to the 10th century. At the moment it is the second largest (after Warszawa) and third most populous (after Warszawa and Łódź) city of Poland.
Krakow is the most frequent tourist destination in Poland.
As for the attractiveness of Kraków for foreign investors, the city's situation is very good. Both the number of active foreign investors in relation to the population and the estimated scale of foreign investment carried out over the last 5 years per capita are high. For domestic investors Kraków is no longer as popular as other large cities.
Did you know that...
- A Goodman International Limited logistics centre with an area exceeding 150 000m2 will soon be opened in Kraków. The investment value is expected to top EUR 80m
- In 2007 Kraków was deemed the hottest city in the world by the American web agency “Orbitz”
- According to historical sources, the notorious doctor Faustus studied in Kraków
