Champions join their forces in development of the Polish economy’s image

Founders of the Polish National Foundation are leading Polish corporations, rooted in key sectors of the economy: energetics, transport, logistics, excavation, metallurgy, fuels, insurance, chemistry, financial sector, real property and games of chance. KGHM is also one of them.

 - Our company, KGHM Polska Miedź, operating within international markets for numerous years, has always taken care of the image of the country it comes from. Thanks to the Foundation we will join forces with other companies with Treasury shareholding, and together we will promote the Polish brand - reassures Krzysztof Skóra, president of KGHM Polska Miedź S.A.

The Foundation, posing a platform of cooperation of the largest companies owned by the treasury, will start is operation in the third quarter 2016, and provide a possibility to realize project in Poland, Europe and around the whole world, at the same time guaranteeing strong synergy effects. 10 out of 17 Founders of the Polish National Foundation are within the group of 20 major companies quoted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and the other two are included in the WIG40 index.  

- The initiative of establishing the foundation flows from a strong - but still unfulfilled - need to exchange knowledge and experiences, and widespread cooperation of the largest companies with Treasury shareholding, for improvement of the Polish economy’s image - says Dawid Jackiewicz, the Minister of Treasury

The foundation’s tasks will be especially to promote and protect the image of the Republic of Poland and Polish economy, and to shape a positive social reception of investments carried out by the companies with Treasury shareholding. The group of organizational objectives also includes cooperation with local communities as well as social and economic organization, as well as organization and financing of social initiatives.