Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski Wednesday called for NATO countries to draw up a “clear strategy" for ending the mission in Afghanistan after holding talks with the military alliance's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Brussels.

One in ten government-employed officials will lose their jobs under cost-cutting plans that could save Poland around PLN 1 billion a year, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily reported Wednesday.

Headline annual inflation will likely rise beginning from the September reading and end the year just above the central bank's 2.5% target, a finance ministry official told the PAP news agency Wednesday.

Poland's purchasing managers' index, a gauge of manufacturing, surged to 53.8 points in August, the highest level since July 2007, according to a report by HSBC.

Several potential industrial and financial investors have expressed interest in Poland’s flagship air carrier LOT, which the government wants to privatize in 2011, the company’s CEO Sebastian Mikosz told the PAP news agency.

One in three large Polish companies conducting or planning projects finance capital expenditure independently rather than turning to banks, according to a report by Deloitte and a local business lobby.

Poland's financial market watchdog has stripped two investment advisors of their licenses and suspended one broker for a year over an insider trading scandal involving shares in gas company PGNiG.

Listed cable operator MultiMedia Polska increased second-quarter profits by 16% to PLN 15.8 million as group revenues rose nearly 9% y/y to PLN 140.5 million, according to a financial statement for the three months to June.

Listed biotech firm Bioton posted an attributable net profit of PLN 45.6 million in the second quarter, compared to PLN 19.5 million net loss in the same period last year, the PAP news agency reported, citing the company’s report for the first six months.

Listed metals group Kety signed an annex to its deal with LC Corp Sky Tower that reduces the value of its contract with the company to PLN 71.5 million from PLN 119.6 million, Kety said in a market filing.

Listed retailer Emperia aims wants to maintain capital expenditure in 2011 at PLN 150-200 million, CEO Artur Kawa told reporters.

Listed real estate developer Polnord sold 131 apartments and had four resignations in August, the firm said in a statement.

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