On November 16, 2007, hundreds of guests gathered in the majestic ballroom of the Royal Castle in Warsaw to attend a festive Laureates Gala during which the results were announced of this year’s edition of the Pearls of the Polish Economy ranking. The ranking has been organized for five years now by “Polish Market” in collaboration with the Institute of Economics at the Polish Academy of Sciences (INE PAN) to distinguish Poland’s economically most effective companies. The honorary patronage was assumed by the Minister of the Economy and Danuta Hübner, the EU Commissioner for Regional Policy. >>

Opening the gala celebration, the “Polish Market’s” Editor-in-Chief Krystyna Woźniak-Trzosek observed that companies which met the highly rigorous and hard-to-meet ranking criteria defined by PAN economic scientists have fully deserved the title of the Pearls of the Polish Economy to be awarded to them that evening. >>

Karina Wściubiak,deputy Board President for Financial andRestructuring Affairsof the steel productmanufacturing company Huta Batory Sp. z o.o.: “Until now we used to joke that our steel mill is just a very small pearl in our capital group – yet today it has been declared to be the Pearl of the Polish Economy.” >>