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Trends and opportunities in Eastern Europe

September 2017

The content of this newsletter is based on:

- The reports and market analysis of PMR (www.pmrpublications.com), leader in market analysis and publications in Eastern Europe, and partner of VALIANS INTERNATIONAL. - Contacts and experiences of our team of consultants gathered during their different projects on a daily basis. You will find below an overview of the trends and opportunities on the markets gathered from their main players.

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Industry / Construction / Environment

Hungary: Number of highway border crossing may double by 2022 On the field The government decided to build 900 kilometres of motorways and dual carriageways, and earmark a total 2,500 Poland billion forints (8.2 billion euro) for road construction until 2022. The to connect with in western Major investment for the will be completed by early 2020. The construction of the dual Japanese OEM Mabuchi carriageway M30 between Miskolc and Kosice in eastern Slovakia is Motor scheduled to start next year. The border sections of M8 at Rábafüzes (in the direction of Graz) and M85 at Sopron (in the direction of Vienna) will be completed in the coming five years. The last section of motorway M6 between Bóly and the Croatian border will probably be opened in late 2020. The construction of the last section of motorway M3 between The new plant, which has just been Vásárosnamény and the Ukrainian border is scheduled to start in early 2021 started near Cracow, will be specialized Source : HungaryToday in the construction of small electric

Poland: Programme of European co-founding in motors accessories used in motor vehicles (eg systems for opening / « Infrastructure and Environment » closing windows). The value of the The National Fund for Environmental investment is estimated at 360 M PLN Protection and Water Managment (NFOSiGW) has launched a competition for energy clusters (85 M €) and the number of new direct that could receive European co-founding under jobs at 400. Present at the opening the operational program "Infrastructure and ceremony of the plant, the Vice- Environment". The budget for the competition President of the Agency for Investment is PLN 300 million (EUR 71 million). The and Trade (PAIH), Krzysztof Senger, said construction or modernization of installations meeting the following criteria that Japan is the first Asian investor in will be eligible for co-founding: Wind power plants of more than 5 MWe; Poland: the cumulative value of Biomass power plants over 5 MWt / MWe; Biogas power plants of more than investments made by more than 300 1 MWe; Hydropower plants of more than 5 MWe; Photovoltaic installations Japanese companies in Poland is of more than 2 MWe / MWt; Geothermal power plants of more than 2 MWt. estimated at € 3.5 billion (of which € The results of the competition should be known in April 2018. Source : DgTrésor 600 million invested in 2016) Source : DG trésor

Poland: Rolling stock exports growth by 30% in 2017 The export of rolling stock from Poland in 2017 would exceed PLN 2 billion (EUR 0.47 billion), a growth of 30% compared to 2016. The turnover of PESA from exports for 2017 are expected to exceed 190 M €. In the coming years, PESA export revenues would be even higher with deliveries of the Link trains for Deutsche Bahn, which had ordered 470 trains in total. The Stadler and Solaris consortium, named Solaris Tram, won a contract worth 80 M PLN (EUR 19 million) for the supply of the 7 Tramino trams for Brunswick. Newag focuses on the Italian market: in December 2015 the company signed a contract with the railway operator FSE for the delivery of 5 Impuls II trains. Newag has already provided trains for the transport around Etna. Solaris Bus & Coach strengthens its position in the European bus market. In 2016 the company captured 12% of the European market. Due to the European demand for trolleybuses, which currently stands at 450 vehicles, Solaris, hopes to win several contracts over the next two years. Solaris owns 17% of the European electric bus market. Source: DGTrésor

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Retail / Food / Pharma / ITC

Central Europe: Cosmetics market grew by 3.9% in 2016 The cosmetics retail market in On the field the five CE countries (i.e. Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, POLAND , Romania, Slovakia) grew by 3.9% in 2016 (in local Growing sectors currencies), while its value reached €4.6bn. In all of the countries under review, market values increased in local currencies in 2016, which bodes well for the future. The highest growth was noted in Hungary and Romania, while the lowest increase Shoe production: According to the occurred in Bulgaria. Improving macroeconomic conditions should support Polish Institute of Statistics (GUS), consumer spending on cosmetics in all the analysed countries in the years Polish factories produced 17.4 million ahead. Among non-economic factors, sales of cosmetics should be driven by pairs of shoes between January and the expansion of cosmetics chains, the growing popularity of online sales and May this year, an increase of 5% year- growing demand for natural cosmetics. Source : PMR on-year, (not taking into account producers with fewer than 50 Romania: IT sector to reach 12% GDP until 2025. employees.) With this steady rate of Romania’s IT&C sector will increase to 12% of the growth, Poland could quickly surpass GDP in 2025, from a current value of 6% of the GDP, Romania and become the 4th largest said Marian Popa, head of DB Global Tehnology’s IT producer of footwear in Europe. center in . DB Global Technology is the Video games : The Polish video game software division of Germany’s most important sector is growing at an annual rate of lender Deutsche Bank. “Romania will become Silicon Country in the coming 10%. Producers in this sector years and has all the conditions to turn the IT sector into the economy’s iron generated 1.25 billion PLN of turnover pillar,” said Popa. At the moment, Romania has about 150,000 employees in in 2016. More than 300 studios are the IT sector, who produce 6% of the GDP. This means EUR 10 billion of a active in the country, most of them total of EUR 170 billion. The IT&C sector has reached the same share in GDP located in the regions of Warsaw, as agriculture, with ten times less people working in the sector. If the sector Krakow and Katowice. Source : DG trésor continues to go up, it could reach between 230,000 and 250,000 employees by 2025. Deutsche Bank Global Technology, which develops software in Romania, has 800 employees in the center of Bucharest and targets 1,000 CONTACT employees for the end of this year. Romania has the largest number of IT&C employees in CEE Source : Romania Insider Do not hesitate to contact us: [email protected] Czech Republic: Record increase in the number of company More news about trends and creation opportunities in Central and 16,686 companies were established in the Czech Republic in the first half of Eastern Europe : this year. This is an increase of 2,814 compared to the same period of last year and also the highest figure for a first half year period of the Czech http://ww http://ww w.linkedin. w.faceboo Republic's history. Source : RadioPraha com/comp k.com/Vali any/valians ansInterna - tional/ internation al VALIANS INTERNATIONAL Sp. z o.o. ul. Feldmana 4/7, 31-130 Kraków, Poland, Tel: (+48) 12 631 12 89 Fax: (+48) 12 423 47 02 [email protected] Visit our new website : www.valians-international.com 3