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PAIH Business Forum 2022 at PGE Narodowy.

The Business Forum organised by the Polish Investment and Trade Agency took place on the 5th of October. The event was addressed to Polish entrepreneurs, with a special focus on small and medium sized enterprises, active exporters, those interested in exporting their products and services and those planning and implementing foreign investments. This year’s edition of the PAIH Business Forum was held under the Honorary Patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda. The strategic partner of the event was PKO Bank Polski, and the main partners were Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, the Polish Investment Zone and the World For Ukraine Foundation.

During the Forum’s opening ceremony the Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki delivered a message to the participants in the form of a video recording. The event was inaugurated by PAIH’s Chairman Krzysztof Drynda. Among other speakers there were also: the Minister of Development and Technology Waldemar Buda, the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture Grzegorz Piechowiak, and he Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Paweł Jabłoński. As part of the event, a number of discussion panels were held.

Janusz Cieślak, the President of European Business Club Poland at the BUSINESS FORUM 2022.

European Business Club Poland was represented by the President Janusz Cieślak, who took part in the inauguration of the Forum and a number of discussion panels including:

WORLD EXHIBITIONS AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR PROMOTING THE COUNTRY, REGION AND INDUSTRY – HOW TO USE THE WORLD EXPO TO SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION OF POLISH COMPANIES
SUMMARY OF POLAND’S PRESENCE AT WORLD EXHIBITION EXPO 2020 IN DUBAI
PRESENTATION OF THE OBJECTIVES OF POLAND’S PRESENCE AT WORLD EXHIBITION EXPO 2025 OSAKA
INTERNATIONALISATION OF COMPANIES WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AS A FORM OF INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION OF COMPANIES
PKO BANK POLSKI SUPPORTS THE INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY OF POLISH COMPANIES
PRESENTATIONS BY PAIH AND ITS PARTNERS
TIME FOR POLISH INVESTMENTS ABROAD! BENEFITS FOR POLISH BUSINESS AND THE POTENTIAL OF INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES, during which he presented the European Business Club Poland’s plans for the Mongolian market.

The President Janusz Cieślak held a number of B2B meetings, among others with representatives of PAIH’s Foreign Trade Offices in the UK, Mongolia and Singapore.

Janusz Cieślak, the President of European Business Club Poland and Bożena Banasik-Cieślak, advisor to the Management Board of European Business Club Poland during a meeting with Bat-Erdene Boldbaatar, Head of the PAIH ZBH in Ulaanbaatar and Zoljargal Byambatsogt, Business Development Manager at the PAIH ZBH in Ulaanbaatar.

During the event, an agreement was signed between PAIH and KGHM Polska Miedź, the aim of which is to create conditions for the development of the domestic economy and strengthen Poland’s position as one of the largest exporters in the world.

PAIH Business Forum 2019 – meeting of the SME sector and its partners – PAIH experts, representatives of regions and development institutions

On October 9 this year there was a BUSINESS FORUM organized by the Polish Investment and Trade Agency SA. The event was addressed to Polish entrepreneurs, with particular attention to small and medium active exporters interested in exporting their products and services as well as planning and implementing foreign investments. The program concept included a broad formula of substantive activities that provide a full service process for the entrepreneur in the areas of export and investment. The added value was the possibility of direct contact of Forum participants with representatives of PAIH Foreign Trade Offices, thus enabling the strengthening of relationships on individual markets with a wide geographical coverage.

Less than 20% of Polish companies operate on a European scale, and 14% – worldwide. Furthermore, as many as half of those doing business on the Old Continent are thinking of becoming one of the global players. Export and investment abroad is a challenge especially for micro, small and medium enterprises. PAIH Business Forum 2019 is an opportunity to establish cooperation with a stable and trusted partner who will facilitate their establishment.

Janusz Cieślak, President of EKB Polska at PAIH BUSINESS FORUM

The European Business Club Poland was represented by President Janusz Cieślak, who took part in the inauguration of the Forum and a number of panel sessions, including:

Presentation of the PAIH offer
PAIH export offer.
Southeast Asia and Australia.
Discover still undiscovered – United Kingdom.
Eurasian Economic Union.
Asia.

and held a series of B2B meetings in Foreign Trade Offices in United Kingdom, Mongolia, Singapore, Italy, China, India and South Korea.

Grażyna Ciurzyńska, President of PAIH and Janusz Cieślak, President of EKB Polska

During the Forum, it was emphasized that exports are one of the main engines of our economy and constitute over 50 percent of GDP – according to Eurostat data. Last year, the Polish economy broke the record – we exported goods for EUR 231 billion. Companies focus mainly on the European market, where goes 80 percent of our products. Poland is the 25th largest global exporter, but still relatively few companies export their products, because only about 17,000.

Speech by Grażyna Ciurzyńska, President of PAIH

“We want to encourage Polish entrepreneurs, mainly small and medium ones, to reach out to foreign markets. Not only to large ones, such as Canada and the United States, but to prospective markets, which we may be afraid of today” says Grażyna Ciurzyńska, head of PAIH.

In a letter to several thousand participants of PAIH Business Forum, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki emphasized that relying on the domestic market is not enough for economic development. “For two years, through PAIH, Polish entrepreneurs found contractors and signed several hundred contracts in China, South Korea, Australia, Kenya, Argentina, Canada, Russia, not to mention the countries of the European Union” – noted the head of government.

The Prime Minister reminded that Poland is also open to foreign investors, for example by the launching of the Polish investment zone. From September 2018, the declared value of the launched projects exceeded PLN 18 billion. “World-wide companies such as Toyota, Daimler, LG, Lufthansa, has launched their projects in Poland” wrote the Prime Minister.