KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE:
YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS
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nyone can become an entrepreneur in today’s world. It only takes a few formalities to start your own business. However, the real challenge is creating a company that will make your dreams come true, ensuring financial and personal development. It is also important where the offered services or goods will find buyers or will be easily transportable elsewhere. You can have it all in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie province.
Why here?
This region has excellent transport connections with the rest of Poland. It neighbors on five provinces. National and international transport routes intersect here, so business has a good chance to succeed. The Kujawsko-Pomorskie is located in Pan-European Transport Corridor No. VI (Baltic-Adriatic), which connects Scandinavia with Italy and Slovenia. The A1 freeway connecting the north and south of Poland runs through the region, enabling efficient travel from one corner of the country to another. International railway lines intersect here as well: C-E 65 linking the northern and southern parts of the country, and line No. 353 running from the western to the eastern border of Poland. Air connections? The Ignacy Jan Paderewski International Airport lies within Bydgoszcz,
providing international flights as well as domestic flights to Warsaw. The airport makes the province an easily accessible destination for inhabitants of Poland, Europe, and distant parts of the world. With its very good transport connections and easy accessibility, not just regionally, the Kujawsko-Pomorskie province is a great place for setting up and running business operations.
We have an ace up our sleeve!
Actually, we have a whole deck of strong cards to convince you that it is worth launching your business in Kujawsko-Pomorskie. Why? For example, because of the availability of land: our region offers more than 2,500 hectares, with infrastructure, ready for development. The local authorities attach great importance to creating good conditions for economic development. The residents’ growing awareness and local-government initiatives favor local entrepreneurship and foreign investors, who can count on various forms of support. The provincial authorities are open to entrepreneurs. Over 196,000 business entities operate here, of which nearly 2,000 are companies with foreign capital. Companies such as Nokia (formerly Alcatel-Lucent), Atos, Nordzucker, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, Mondi, Frosta, Lafarge, Nestle, Raben, DHL, Panattoni, PepsiAmericas, UMC, Orion, Neupack, Solvay, Indorama, Unilever, Bunge, Orkla, Lidl, and Opus Capita (formerly Itella) have decided to locate their projects in the region.
Support at the highest level
Toruń Technology Incubator, Photo Andrzej Goiński
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Winter 2020
If you are a new entrepreneur, worried that you will not be able to start your business in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie province, you could not be more wrong. Read about the province’s investment offering, which will not only show you how you could develop your company, but also help you financially. The Regional Enterprise Incubators located in Toruń, Bydgoszcz and Włocławek provide entrepreneurs with modern office space on favorable terms, supporting them in administrative and legal matters. The province also boasts 23 subzones of the Pomeranian Special Economic Zone as well as industrial parks, industrial and technological parks, and technology transfer centers. The Warsaw Voice
