Poland: Carlsberg opens financial services centre in Poland
Carlsberg AS said on April 11 it has opened a financial services centre in Poznan in the west of Poland that will serve its Polish and German operations, according to AFX.
The centre will become operational in November and will employ 70 accounting specialists. Initially, it will serve Carlsberg's Polish breweries, and will start serving the German ones in March 2007.
Poznan won the location of the financing centre against Budapest and Bucharest. Carlsberg did not say how much it is investing in the centre.
The Danish brewer has three breweries in Poland and markets eight brands of beer there. Its own brand holds a 14.5 pct share of the Polish market.
Carlsberg's Polish sales in 2005 were 845 mln zlotys (213 mln eur), up 8 pct from a year earlier. The net profit rose from 5 mln zlotys to 65 mln zlotys or 16.4 mln eur.
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