The middle of January 2012 is a deadline date for companies and institutions to file applications in the 17th edition of ‘Grasz o staż’ (literal translation – ‘Win the internship’) – a prestigious competition which provides promotion of employers, amplify corporate image and is also a chance to reach to ...

The Ministry of Treasury (MSP) and GC Investment have initialed a project of sales agreement of „Przedsiębiorstwo Komunikacji Samochodowej w Katowicach S.A.” (PKS, Motor Transport Company). The agreement concerns a purchase of 85% of shares of PKS wholly owned by the State Treasury. The selling of shares to the private ...

Rockwell Automation, which is one of the world's leading providers of automated industrial drive systems and services, has opened a Product Development Center within a multi-functional plant located in Katowice. The investment, had been mystified thus far, was introduced during the last week’s "Prospects in Poland" conference. “The decision ...

“The coming three years will be epoch-making for Katowice. This is time which will change the image of the City not only in the point of view of the Silesia region itself or Poland, but in Europe’s opinion as well” – Bogdan Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture, said during his Friday’s ...

Katowice City budget planned for 2012 seems to be a record-breaking and will exceed PLN 2 billion for the first time in history (PLN 1,8m in 2011). Additionally, the budgetary project assumes that an amount of next year’s capital expenditures will rise by 138-percent as compared with 2011 to ...

From amongst two companies which had submitted proposals for construction of two underground car parks in the City Center of Katowice in July this year – it was Leosepte based in Warsaw and a consortium coordinated by Mota-Engil Central Europe owned by the Portuguese Mota-Engil group – only ...

The City Hall of Katowice prepared a new promotional campaign addressed to investors. The campaign was launched yesterday in the business media and includes a 30-second TV spot. The spot showing strengths of Katowice as the main city of the Silesian agglomeration will be presented in the TVN24 and CNN television ...

The City Hall of Katowice in cooperation with the “Eskadra” advertisement agency had prepared and presented today a next stage of the promotional campaign “City of remarkable events” this time titled “Invasion of culture”. The campaign is focused on a promotion of the City’s cultural events in seven biggest Polish ...

In July last year the City of Katowice was granted a financial help within the European Union funds to implement an e-promotion of the City’s modernist architecture. Called the Route of Modernism, it is already available for tourists. The sixteen greatest examples of modernism, had selected by the Silesian Cultural ...

Piotr Uszok, the mayor of Katowice, talks to katowicethecity.com on a real estate market’s mood, the “cultural district”, present and future investments. The full conversation is available below. At the beginning of October, the City of Katowice took part in the Expo Real fair in Munich. What is the mood ...