1400 ME de IDE português na Polónia em 7 anos

Entre as grandes empresas como a Jerónimo Martins, o grupo Eurocash, os bancos Millennium e Espírito Santo, a EDP Renováveis, a Mota Engil, assim como outras de menor dimensão como a Colep, a Carfi ou a BA Vidros por exemplo, o investimento directo estrangeiro português na Polónia nos últimos 7 anos foi de cerca de 1400 Milhões de Euros. 

Notícia pode ser lida aqui.

Polish Hotel Company - Katowice com o 2º hotel parte II

" The second project of the company – out of seventeen planned in the upcoming years in Poland – is going to be settled in Katowice on Wojewódzka Street near the Rialto cinema in the heart of the City. “This is a construction plot situated opposite the Old Railway Station. Our hotel will be built within a mixed-use facility including offices. However, we have only established a cooperation for the hotel part” – Miguel Martins, general manager at PHC, said to katowicethecity.com.

The 4-floor hotel will have 124 guests rooms and 2 meeting rooms. It will be classified into a 3-star economy budget category offering bed & breakfast services with fixed price for final guest including free wireless Internet and breakfast. “The hotel will be operated by Polish Hotel Management Company under a franchise agreement with InterContinental Hotels Group for the Holiday Inn Express brand” – Miguel Martins added.

The construction work is planned to be kicked-off in spring 2013. The PHC’s facility will border upon a 3-storey office building of B-class to be built by private investor. The construction plot is owned by Eurostar Real Estate from Kraków. The firm is also the owner of the Old Railway Station. The mixed-use facility will be erected within the so called design-and-build formula."

Fonte: http://www.katowicethecity.com 

Já agora, esta era a antiga estação:

Que foi substituída por esta, que manteve o estilo de betão à vista:

Polish Hotel Company - Katowice com o 2º hotel

" Hotel developer Polish Hotel Company is now finishing preparatory work and will launch construction on a new hospitality project in Katowice, in Silesia, in April next year, said Miguel Martins, general manager of the firm. The scheme will be the second of a total of 17 new facilities that the Polish Hotel Company plans to deliver in Poland in the next seven to eight years in partnership with the international hospitality market giant InterContinental Hotels Group.

The first of those facilities, the Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport hotel in the Polish capital, recently held its grand opening. More openings in Warsaw, as well as in the other large Polish cities, are set to take place in the upcoming years.

The development process will be divided into two phases, the first of which will involve the construction of new hotels in the largest Polish cities including Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, Poznań and Wrocław, Mr Martins said. In the second phase, the company plans to expand to some of the other major regional Polish cities including Szczecin, Bydgoszcz and Lublin. In the next two to three years, approximately eight new hotels will be opened, Mr Martins added.

While some of the planned hotels, which will mostly be targeted at business travelers, may be stand-alone buildings, the majority will probably be developed within larger office investments, a niche that has a future in the Polish market, Mr Martins said.

The already delivered Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport hotel, for one, is located within the Poleczki Business Park office complex in southern Warsaw and is the result of the Polish Hotel Company’s cooperation with the park’s co-investor UBM. For the investors and developers of major office complexes, Mr Martins noted, having a hotel partner means diversification and less investment risk. A 5,000-sqm hotel facility which, at least in the initial phase, acts as if it were an office tenant, also helps in the pre-leasing process.

According to Mr Martins, the situation in the hospitality market in Poland has not changed much over the last few years, with the country continuing to see strong domestic demand for high-quality hotel space and services. Asked whether the months after the Euro 2012 soccer championships, which Poland co-hosted earlier this year, saw a drop in hotel visits, Mr Martins pointed out that contrary to common belief it is actually domestic, rather than international clients, that drive the market.

For instance, at the Holiday Inn Express Warsaw Airport hotel, which has been in operation for more than three months now, Polish clients have so far accounted for around 70 percent of all visits, he said. What has been changing is the fact that clients are now expecting a higher standard and that, at the same time, they are becoming more cost-conscious. More CEOs are staying at three-star hotels, which would have been hard to imagine several years ago, Mr Martins said.

All of which makes him optimistic about the prospects for the budget hotel sector in Poland, especially since the country still lacks modern facilities of this kind. “Many of the existing hotels in Poland are old and not branded,” Mr Martins said. Businesspeople will continue to travel around Poland and stay at high-standard and affordable hotels. “We see our activities in Poland as part of the overall process of improving the country’s infrastructure,” Mr Martins added. "

Fonte: http://www.wbj.pl

Moja Farmacja

" Outra empresa portuguesa quer desenvolver um negócio farmacêutico na Polónia. 

Numa altura em que o mercado está em decréscimo, o Grupo Moja Farmacja pretende abrir até 140 farmácias, escreve o jornal Puls Biznesu.

O sucesso da Biedronka mostrou que os portugueses sentem-se na Polónia como um peixe dentro de água. Agora, o Grupo Moja Farmacja cujo um dos sócios é Pedro Bandeira quer repetir este sucesso.

Mas esta empresa pode enfrentar problemas em virtude da nova lei de reembolso que levou ao declínio do mercado: as vendas e as margens das farmácias foram reduzidas. E a esta lei, nem a rede de farmácias Bliska da Jerónimo Martins foi imune. O grupo mudou a sua estratégia e vai desenvolver o negócio em conjunto com a drogaria Hebe, sendo o seu ritmo de expansão menor do que o inicialmente planeado.

Além disso - segundo os especialistas - o mercado está saturado e não há espaço para novos players - lê-se no PB."

Fonte: http://www.portalspozywczy.pl 

Construção estradas na Polónia deu lucro

mas não foi para as construtoras. Para demasiadas, o resultado foram falências. Fica um artigo do Financial Times sobre o assunto:

" There was an old adage during the gold rush that the guy running the grocery shop and the saloon made a killing, while prospectors lost their shirts. It seems that the same principle applies to the humbler world of road building and asphalt supplies.

As the dust settles on Poland’s ambitious road building programme it turns out that somebody did make money on building hundreds of kilometres of new highways. It just wasn’t the people building the roads, but the companies making the asphalt – Poland’s two largest refiners, PKN Orlen and the Lotos Group.

The Dziennik Gazeta Prawna newspaper estimates that the two companies earned about 12bn zlotys ($630m) during 2008-2011, the peak of Poland’s road construction programme. Asphalt profits jumped by 61 per cent for Orlen and by 75 per cent for Lotos over that period.

That record is a lot better than for the companies which were actually laying the asphalt. More than 150 construction companies have declared bankruptcy, largely because they engaged in a destructive race to the bottom in competing for big construction contracts.

Construction firms hoped that they would be able to get some wiggle room in their contracts in the event of increases in the price of raw materials, but the government’s road building agency has proved inflexible, worrying that any renegotiation of contracts could imperil the flow of EU structural funds which cover the bulk of big road projects.

The agency warned bidders a few years ago to be careful about their assumptions on future prices for inputs like steel, gravel, cement and asphalt, pointing out that once the infrastructure modernisation programme got rolling the increased demand would push up costs.

The agency was right to worry – just this year asphalt prices have risen by 42 per cent. That has pushed many construction companies to the wall.

“Problems with the construction sector are in large part the result of the dominant position of the customer, in this case the state and its institutions. Until that changes – and as we can see public institutions are not taking much responsibility for the existing situation – the sector does not have much chance of rebuilding its potential,” notes a recent report by Euler Hermes, a credit insurer.

The impact can be seen on the Warsaw Stock Exchange’s construction sector index, which is down by 31.6 per cent over the last 12 months.

Orlen, by contrast, is up by 23 per cent over the last year, while Lotos is up by 35 per cent over the same period – black gold indeed."

Fonte: http://blogs.ft.com 

Corrupção na Polónia

Saiu hoje o relatório da Transparency International sobre a percepção de corrupção. A classificação da Polónia (41ª), sendo inferior ao 33º lugar de Portugal é melhor do que países vizinhos como República Checa (54ª) ou a Eslováquia (62ª). Do bloco dos chamados países de Leste, só a Estónia e a Eslovénia têm melhores resultados.
Em todo o caso, a evolução da Polónia foi errática. Se em 2001 ocupava a posição nº 44, nos anos seguintes foi piorando, piorando até chegar ao máximo em 2005 (70ª). A partir daí teve descidas fortes, até estabilizar em 2010 na posição 41.