After the “boom” — surviving the Polish pump industry

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 857 KB
• Volume: 1999
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-1762
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-1762(99)80629-4

✦ Synopsis

Recent changes in the political landscape across Eastern Europe have created growth in the Polish economy. i%e Western media variously describe Poland as "the country of the big investment boom," and "a black bole for Western products" with "millions of potential customers." According to Andrzej Bacitiski, of Pumps C Systems, this is only half the truth. The country is still struggling to adapt to a new economic model. Here, be describes real life in Poland for the average pump supplier and user, as he sees it.