Poland, the new SSC leader?
1 June 2009:
The global crisis prompts largest companies to seek new solutions allowing reducing operational costs. One of them is placing selected business processes in Shared Services Centres. ‘Poland’s advantage over other CEE countries lies in strong academic centres spread throughout the country’ Jerzy Kalinowski, Partner at KPMG and the head of a team advising on telecom and media said. ‘Paradoxically, the economic slowdown and related depreciation of the zloty lure investors to Poland’ he added.
The report sets out to check whether Polish cities i.e. Kraków, Lublin, ?ód?, Pozna?, Szczecin, Tricity, Warsaw and Wroc?aw meet the expectations of potential investors. ‘Investors often seek support from public administration and additional incentives’ Kiejstut ?agun, head of Grants and Incentives team at KPMG says. ‘Poland offers support in the phase of operational activity in the form of grants for staff training and R&D work. Easily accessible state aid, including grants and tax exemptions for newly set up and developed service centres alike is Poland’s advantage. Public aid can reach 50% of investment expenditure or the equivalent of 2-year worth of gross wage costs in large firms. The amount of structural funds earmarked for investor grants reaches PLN 1 billion in 2009’ ?agun explains. The report is available at www.kpmg.pl and www.paiz.gov.pl.