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Rynek tłumaczeń
- HP to expand Wroclaw centre
Hewlett-Packard (HP), the US computer group, plans to create up to 700 new jobs at its Global Business Centre in Wroclaw over the next few years, as the facility assumes a key role in supporting decision-making processes at the group's subsidiaries in Europe. The Wroclaw centre, which was created exactly five years ago as the first SSC/BPO centre in the city, at present employs 1,800 staff. The decision to lift headcount to 2,000-2,500 is part of a plan, not only to expand capacity but also to introduce more advanced services. That is why HP is aiming to cast its net wider, attracting foreigners as well as Polish professionals. According to Jacek Levernes, CEO of the Wroclaw centre, the company is looking for experts in economics and finance with three to seven years experience and mastery of more than two foreign languages, including rare ones.
- Mediatel launches MVNO
An alternative fixed-line operator, , has included mobile telephony services under the 'Telepin mobi' brand into its offer. The new virtual network operator (MVNO) is based on 's infrastructure. Mediatel plans to poach 20,000 customers by the end of the current year, which it hopes to gain mainly from Poland-resident citizens of the Ukraine, Russia and Vietnam. The company expects to generate PLN 0.5m (€150,000) revenue by the end of 2008 by offering cheap international calls via special access number to fixed-line networks in almost 60 countries at PLN 0.39 (€0.12) per minute. When this discount expires, the standard price of PLN 0.49 (€0.15) will be charged. The costs of domestic M2M calls and SMS messages are PLN 0.60 (€0.18) per minute and PLN 0.23 (€0.07), respectively. Mediatel is planning distribution abroad as well (e.g., in Vietnam) and it runs a website in six languages.
- CenterTelecom doubles planned capital investments for 2008
, the fixed-line, mobile telephony and broadband operator controlled by the telecom holding , intends to spend RUB 13.5bn (€364m) chiefly on traditional telephony and transmission lines by the end of 2008. Initially, the value of spending was expected to be RUB 6.6bn (€179m). CenterTelecom operates in the territory of the Central Federal district. It also provides translation of programmes on cable television in the area. Svyazinvest owns a 38.02% package of CenterTelecom's authorised capital.
- Mediatel to run MVNO for foreigners
, a fixed-line operator, plans to launch the first mobile virtual network operator based on the platform for Vietnamese and Ukrainians in Poland, reported. Marcin Kubit, the president of Mediatel said this is going to be the first MVNO in Poland to be directed specifically at the ethnic groups. He explained that the company intends to reach the group of 200,000 foreigners who have already used its ' Telepin VoIP service with a mobile telephony offer as well. These are mainly citizens of Vietnam and the Ukraine. Advertising, marketing and customer services will be in the target groups' languages.
- Napisy.org back?
The popular website offering free film subtitles in Polish, www.napisy.org, may be reactivated, according to . In May 2007, after an investigation launched at the request of distributors associated in Fundacja Ochrony Tworczosci Audiowizualnej (the Foundation for Protection of Audiovisual Works), the website was suspended and its creators questioned. Since then, however, no specific charges have been brought, and the Zabrze Regional Prosecutor doubts whether in this case the law has been broken at all. An expert assigned by the prosecutor is to state whether publishing unauthorised translations free of charge of works for which authorised translations are available is a violation of the law.
Ekonomiczne
- Ikea freezes regional expansion
The Swedish furniture retailer has suspended its programme of regional expansion in Russia. The construction of the company's shopping centre in Voronezh Province is to start no sooner than the end of 2011 due to internal problems: Ikea has experienced corruption scandal caused by company's Russian top-managers. The company first expressed its intentions to construct a shopping centre in the city in 2005. In 2008, a 50-ha site on the outskirts of Voronezh was acquired and a schedule was put in place for the centre to open by 2010. Other openings by Ikea have also been delayed. The launch of Mega-Samara, the construction of which was finished two years ago, is still being objected to by local authorities. In Ufa, an Ikea outlet was to be opened in autumn 2008, however, problems arose when the Federal Migration Service claimed to have found irregularities in the retailer's employment of foreigners. Another project, the construction of a $1bn Ikea mall in Mytischi (Moscow Province), has not yet started yet due to difficulties encountered by the company in registering its design plans. There have been no new openings by Ikea in Russia for 18 months now. As reported in June 2010, Ikea also decided to freeze the construction of new outlets in Ukraine, the market which the company has been approaching since 2006.
- Magnit to speed up hypermarket openings
,a Russian grocery retailer, plans to speed up the rate at which it opens new stores. During the period January-August 2010, the company opened eight hypermarkets. By the end of 2010, the retailer plans to open another 22 such stores. The latest store to be opened by the company was the hypermarket in Toliatti, which started operating on 17 August 2010. At present, Magnit operates 32 hypermarkets, 12 of which are located in the Krasnodar Territory. As per information accurate at the end of June 2010, the company also owned 3,464 convenience stores in Russia, the majority of which are located in the Southern, North Caucasian, Central and Volga federal districts.
- Mobile operators grow retail business in the Urals
,, mobile operators present on the Russian market, continue to expand their retail chains in the Urals. has announced its aim to increase its current store count of 120 to 175 by the end of 2010. The company reported that the share of mobile phone subscriptions sold in the stores owned directly by operator went up from 10.5% to 29% during the period December 2009-July 2010. is also planning to increase its store count from 220 to 240 by the end of the year. (the operator of the mobile network) is to expand its mono-brand retail presence. At present, Beeline operates approximately 60 outlets in the Urals region and is planning to open flagship stores in Yekaterinburg, Perm, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk.
- 258,000 m2 of GLA added to Moscow retail property market in H1 2010
At the end of H1 2010 retail outlets occupied a total of 3.69 million m2 of trading area in Moscow, according to GVA Sawyer. During the first half of the year, a total of 258,000 m2 of Gross Leasable Area (GLA) was added to the Moscow retail market, thus bringing the total area up to 6.49 million m2. More information on this topic can be found in the feature "Shortage of retail property in Moscow forecast for 2012-2013".
- Four clothing brands from Western Europe enter St. Petersburg
Four new clothing brands from Western Europe enter Russian retail market and are to have their first stores in St. Petersburg open by the end of 2010: Warehouse, French Connection, River Island and Manoukian. All of the aforementioned brands are to have their first stores in St. Petersburg's Galereya shopping mall. , the franchisee of the Warehouse and French Connection brands in Russia, is to lease about 360 m2 for two stores. , the franchisee of the Manoukian brand, is to open a store occupying approximately 170 m2. , the company responsible for the development of the River Island brand in Russia, is to open an 800-m2 store. According to PMR report Clothing and footwear retail market in Russia 2010, in 2009 the Russian Clothing, footwear and accessories (CFA) market amounted to RUB 1,525.6bn ($48.1bn), demonstrating 5% growth compared to the previous year.
