Krowarzywa once had 22 restaurants in ten Polish cities.
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Poland’s biggest supermarket chain opens first store abroad
Biedronka aims to operate at least 50 stories in Slovakia by the end of 2026.
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Latest retail chain exploits loophole to evade Poland’s Sunday trading ban
By offering postal services, stores are able to remain open.
“Amber rush” in Poland as canal construction rumoured to have unearthed precious material
The Baltic coast is famed for its amber.
One in eight contracted employees in Poland receive off-the-book payments
Almost a third of employees in micro-companies are paid cash-in-hand.
Poland’s tax burden for individuals and families falling, finds ranking of EU states
Single taxpayers are able to keep 72% of their net salary after deductions.
Top EU court shifts foreign-currency loan decision to Polish judges
In a fortnight Poland’s Supreme Court will make a landmark decision on mortgages deemed unfair.
Students help elderly entrepreneurs with “Business Grandparents” social media accounts
Many such businesses have struggled during the pandemic.
Polish province had EU’s lowest unemployment rate in 2020
But Poland’s figures may conceal growing “hidden unemployment”, say experts.
Climate NGO sues heating coal producer for greenwashing products
The company says it is correctly applying the product name used by regulators.
Shoppers tussle in scramble for YouTuber-branded ice creams in Poland
Shoppers were recorded fighting to get hold of the product in one supermarket.
Why is Poland’s economy emerging so strongly from the pandemic? A comparison with the UK
Paweł Bukowski and Wojtek Paczos
The type of lockdown matters, but Poland has also had some luck.
Poland’s public debt to grow 433 billion zloty in first two years of pandemic
Debt is forecasted to reach 1.5 trillion zloty by the end of 2021.
A tenth of Belarus’s ICT specialists have relocated to Poland
The Polish government has set up a programme to help them move.
