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PMR experts regularly co-operate with journalists by sharing their knowledge and experience and providing comments to the media.

PMR analysts are industry experts with experience of giving interviews, knowledge sharing or delivering presentations to conferences connected with the Central and Eastern Europe countries as well as other emerging markets. We offer strategic analysis of the business climate in particular in the construction, retail, IT, telecommunications and pharmaceutical sectors.

Below you may find just a few examples of our recent coverage.

The Warsaw Business Journal

Les petites abmbitions

2010-08-02

The small-format market is the latest battle ground for big retailers, and French juggernauts Carrefour and Auchan are gaining ground.(…)Hypermarkets, supermarkets and discount stores currently account for just 30 percent of all retail grocery sales in Poland, according to fig ures from research firm PMR. Small grocers account for almost 40 percent of sales. [...] more »

Drug producers saw healthy revenues in 2009

2010-06-18

Pharmaceuticals in the Polish market brought in nearly zi.20 billion.Last year was a good one for the Polish pharmaceutical industry, as it saw its revenues grow by 10.3 percent y/y, to zl.19.4 billion."This is a big increase, especially taking into account that last year was a crisis year in other sectors of the economy," said Monika Stefańczyk, a pharmaceutical market analyst at PMR. "This goes to [...] more »

Is medical tourism good for Polish health care services?

2010-05-10

Medical tourism has had a positive effect on Poland’s broader health care system, experts say, noting that income from the industry has helped update equipment and professional standards. But these gains must also be weighed against negatives for ordinary Poles. “Medical tourism has positively influenced levels of investment in some private clinics…to the benefit of Poles.” argued Monika Stefańczyk, head analyst at consultancy PMR. (…)The [...] more »

A healthy trend?

2010-03-08

Dietary supplements are a growing, if not always understood, sector of the pharmaceutical market.(...) According to research consultancy PMR, the prosperity of the 2006-2007 period saw sales of luxury products, including dietary supplements, rise significantly. In 2007, for example, the value of the market rose 30 percent y/y. But while some luxury categories suffered due to the economic slowdown, dietary supplements did not [...] more »

In the spending spirit?

2009-12-14

Will Poles' healthy spending keep up through the holiday season? The country's retailers, who have already borne some heavy costs of the crisis, are depending on it.After a year of pessimism and disappointment throughout most of the world economy, many are heralding 2010 as a year of recovery. Holiday-season retail sales could give a good indication as to whether it will be, and economic analysts will be keeping a [...] more »

Building optimism

2009-12-10

The mood among Polish construction companies is increasingly buoyant.Though they are less optimistic than they were during the boom of 2006-2008, over one-fifth of the largest construction firms in Poland see the current situation in the sector as “rather good,” according to a recent survey and report by research and consulting firm PMR.(…)In September 2009, the PMR Construction Climate Indicator had [...] more »

Road construction drive carries risk of shoddy work

2009-11-03

The value of new road construction projects is set to increase by an average of 13 percent every year from 2010, according to analysts at research and consultancy firm PMR Publications. Around 1,000 km of new road is scheduled to be completed by 2012, but the firm warns that many potential pitfalls accompany the positive news.With the increase in tenders for new projects, and many [...] more »

The long road to riches?

2009-10-06

The Polish construction sector has not been spared by the overall economic slowdown, but the market's largest players have generally been able to stay afloat. The large number of infrastructure projects planned for the next few years is helping.[…] Bartłomiej Sosna, a senior construction analyst at PMR […] said that large construction companies that operate in a [...] more »

Retailers offer discounts in bid to attract buyers

2009-09-04

[…]The efforts to acquire clients should not be surprising as according to research, company PMR purchases of clothing and shoes will fall 6% to zł.25.5 billion in 2009.However this situation also concerns electronic stores, where only the sales of LCD and plasma television sets have been increasing since the beginning of the year.[…]Source: The Warsaw Business Journal [...] more »

Retailers offer discounts in bid to attract buyers

Polish construction-chemicals market shrinking

2009-07-20

The Polish construction market will shrink over the next few years, with the steepest decline taking place in 2010, according to a recent report by market research firm PMR.[…]We predict that through out the whole of 2009 the total number of housing starts will reach approximately 140 000, which will represent a steep fall of nearly 20 percent in comparaison with 2008,” said [...] more »

A free-market logic

2009-06-30

Poland has asked EU to curb "socially harmful" food - retail margins - but experts back home slammed the proposal as "crazy".[...] Market research firm PMR predicts that Poles will spend up to zł.225 bilion this year on food, and the Cental Statistical Office has stated that food prices in Q1 of 2009 increased by four percent y/y.[...] Polish households spend around 26 percent of their [...] more »

Collateral damage

2009-05-06

The shrinking number of new development projects in providing a Darwinian phenomenon for a range of companies involved in various aspects of construction. Not every firm is endangered, however, and some are even expected to thrive as Euro 2012 projects get under way.[…]“The slowdown in the residential sector will adversely affect all groups of firms, including construction-materials producers and equipment suppliers, but it will be the worst [...] more »

Lean times?

2009-04-01

Restaurant services in Poland are expected to grow slower over the next two years, due to the economic slowdown.[…]The economic downturns is likely to hurt non-chain restaurants the most, experts say. “These dining services are very vulnerable to decrease in revenues and increases of food product prices”, commented Patrycja Nalepa, a retail market analyst at PMR.[…]According to PMR, clients who often patronize independent eateries are [...] more »

Do 2009 r. w Polsce przybędzie 3 mln łączy szerokopasmowych

2006-11-22

III Forum: "Liczba abonentów szerokopasmowego dostępu do Internetu w Polsce wzrośnie z obecnych 4,1 mln do 7,1 mln w 2009 roku. Wzrost będzie generował segment konsumencki. Za trzy lata tylko 10 % szerokopasmowych będzie wykorzystywane przez przedsiębiorstwa" - prognozuje Paweł Olszynka, analityk z firmy PMR. Pośród najszybciej rozwijających się segmentów rynku telekomunikacyjnego w ciągu najbliższych lat będzie tzw. triple play, usługi VoIP dla sektora korporacyjnego, dostęp do Internetu w [...] more »