A panel discussion relating case studies of business services in Poland and major opportunities impacting their growth took place during the Thursday’s conference “Katowice – Clean, Green and Talent-Driven SSC/BPO/ITO Hub in Central Europe”. Representatives of such companies as IBM, Ernst&Young, Capgemini, Fluor and Grupa ...

Katowicki Holding Węglowy S.A. (KHW) and Tauron Polska Energia S.A., two Katowice-based companies, presented today its plans concerning Shared Service Centers. Both centers will be located in Katowice. The presentations were given during the “Katowice – Clean, Green and Talent-Driven SSC/BPO/ITO Hub in Central Europe” conference. The SSC of KHW ...

The City Hall of Katowice in cooperation with the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland, Katowice Special Economic Zone and Association of Business Service Leaders in Poland are organizing a conference “Katowice – Clean, Green and Talent-Driven SSC/BPO/ITO Hub in Central Europe”. An aim of the event is to ...

From 26th of June to 1st of July, representatives of the City Hall of Katowice, including mayor Piotr Uszok, Katowice Special Economic Zone and Silesian University of Technology members and local businesspersons participated in a delegation to the United States. A key role of the delegacy was to ...

For three days, between 12th and 14th of October representatives from Katowice and Upper Silesia visited New York to promote Poland and the region. The Silesian delegation included representatives of the City Hall of Katowice, the Katowice Special Economic Zone, the Silesian University of Technology, the Katowice branch ...

Katowice has a chance to attract new investors from the Business Process Offshoring area. After an audit shared service center of PwC – first of its kind in Poland - which was opened this year in the City, following companies are making allowance for opening of centers in Katowice. At ...

Katowice, with its 300 000 inhabitants, being the capital and main city of the Upper Silesia Agglomeration with 2 million citizens, is also known for a very well developed transport infrastructure, good location at the crossroads of trans-European transport corridors (III and IV), growing availability of A-class office buildings and ...

During the last decade, foreign investment in Upper Silesia exceeded EUR 4 billion, with about 80% of profits reinvested. Katowice, as the centrally located capital of the region, which offers many opportunities to investors, including well-qualified work force, modern infrastructure and a convenient location at the crossroads of trans-European routes, ...

Jones Lang LaSalle, a global property consultants company, has published a report concerning service centers and the best location for this type of business. As the report says, Polish market of services is the most dynamic among European countries. Number of companies interested in opening an outsourcing or shared service ...

Central and Eastern Europe, with its dynamic growth as well as economic and political stability, has been attracting a growing number of investors who consider it as an excellent location for their sourcing units servicing primarily the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. Poland is by far the largest ...