City of fair and business
Location: Western Poland, close to the German border
Population: 565,000
136,000 students
25 universities and colleges
Investor focus: automotive, food processing, furniture, manufacturing, transport & logistics, retail, BPO
Biggest investors: Volkswagen, Beiersdorf, SAB Miller, GlaxoSmithKline, Jeronimo Martins, MAN, Imperial Tobacco, Selgros Cash & Carry, Bridgestone
BPO/SSC sector in Poznań: Arvato Services Bertelsmann, Carlsberg, Duni, GlaxoSmithKline, Franklin Templeton Investments, MAN, Microsoft Innovation Center
Poznań is one of the oldest and largest Polish cities, it is located on the Warta river, between Berlin and Warszawa. Owing to outstanding economic results, a developing economy and the annual Poznań International Fair, the city is often referred to as the economic capital of Poland.
As for investment attractiveness, the city only slightly cedes to the much larger Warszawa. Though the number of active foreign investors in relation to the population is relatively low, the estimated scale of foreign investments per capita in the last 5 years is very high. What may raise concerns is the relatively low rate of new investments and inflow of foreign capital to Poznań, despite such spectacular undertakings as the investments of Microsoft or GlaxoSmithKline.
Did you know that...
- In 2008 Poznań will house the United Nations World Climate Conference, which continues the conference held 10 years ago in Kyoto
- Polish mathematicians and cryptologists of the University of Poznań decrypted 1932 the Enigma - a machine for encrypting communications during World War II used by Nazi Germany.
- Poznań is the birthplace of Krzysztof Komeda, a renowned composer and jazz musician who created soundtracks to such films by Roman Polański as "Rosemary's Baby" or "Cul-de-Sac"
