Foreign companies invested US$ 6.42 billion in Poland last year. The fall in foreign direct investment (FDI) stopped in 2003.
“We hope this new positive tendency will become permanent and investments increase to US$ 8 billion this year and US$ 10 billion in 2005.” said Andrzej Szejna, vice- president of Polish Agency for foreign investments.
The main investors in Poland were Fiat GM, Power Train, General Motors, Deutsche Bank and Dutch ITI Media Group, with 74 per cent of investments coming from EU countries.
Foreign companies have invested US$ 72 billion in Poland since 1989. France tops the ranking of investors with US$ 13,9 billion, followed by the Netherlands with US$ 9.9 billion, USA invested US$ 8.7 billion and Germany US$ 8.4 billion.
Source: TASR
