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Top 5 winners - Bottom 5 losers

Top 5 winners

AGORA Agora Group is the publisher of Poland's largest daily newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, the free paper, Metro - which last year saw a record readership - as well as 16 other periodicals. It also owns and co-owns 28 local radio stations such as TOK FM. The company is the leader in Poland's press advertising market and owns outdoor-advertising company AMS

EMPERIA Emperia is a FMCG-products wholesaler and retailer. The company mainly operates in southeastern Poland, but it recently acquired chains in the Wielkopolskie voivodship. Emperia also supplies large and medium-size grocery stores, boasting a 55% share in sales. The firm owns the Stokrotka and Groszek supermarket chains.

MOSTALPLC Mostostal Płock is a capital group which trades construction services in Poland and abroad. The firm is also involved in the export and wholesale of goods, earning 90 percent of its revenues from sales of construction services on the domestic market. The group consists of steel-structures, electronics and power-engineering companies, among others.

FORTISPL Fortis Bank is medium-sized bank with small and medium-sized enterprises as key customers. The bank operates mainly in southern Poland. Fortis Bank is part of the Fortis group, which was formed in 1990 from of a merger between Belgian insurer AG1824 and Dutch AMEV/VSB. Fortis' worldwide activities are divided into banking and insurance. In Poland, Fortis operates mainly through Fortis Bank Polska, Fortis Private Investments Polska and Fortis Lease.

CEDC Founded in 1990, Central European Distribution Corporation is Poland's leading producer of vodka in Poland and a leading producer of vodka worldwide. It also distributes and imports other beverages on the domestic market, with 700 brands in total. Its distribution network in Poland consists of 16 centers and 76 satellite branches.

Bottom 5 losers

ECARD Ecard is a Warsaw-based e-finance company focused on delivering integrated electronic payments solutions encompassing payment cards and e-payments. The company has a share capital of zł.24 million. The firm began its operations in 2000 and today it handles approximately 90% of card-transaction turnover on the Polish internet.

ELEKTRIM Elektrim is Poland's largest conglomerate. The company focuses on telecommunications, electrical power engineering, and electro-machinery. In 2001, the company acquired web portal Poland.com from MCI Management (MCI). The Elektrim group is the second-biggest land-line telephone operator in Poland. In the electrical-power engineering sector, the group constructs and modernizes power plants and energy boilers through its subsidiaries Elektrim-Energetyka, Megadex and Rafako. Elektrim's main products include wires and conduits.

STORMM Stormm is the new name of Elektromontaż-Warszawa, a Warsaw-based firm operating in the electrical-installation and technologies market. It is the modern successor of a state-owned company that was established in 1948. The firm was privatized in 1994 and in 1997 it entered the bourse.

HAWE Warsaw-based Hawe specializes in the design and construction of telecommunication networks. The company serves high-profile customers such as Netia, Exatel, Telekomunikacja Polska, Polkomtel, Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa and KGHM Polska Mied�. It debuted on the WSE in February 2007 and owns 100-percent stakes in subsidiary PBT Hawe and, through that firm, Fone. Hawe saw a net loss of zł.977,000 in Q1 2007.

FAMUR Famur Group is the largest manufacturer and supplier of technologically advanced equipment and machinery for the mining industry sector in Poland. The operation of the group encompasses a highly diversified range of equipment and machines used in underground and open-pit mining, the crude-oil and gas-extraction sectors as well as the railroad and cement industry. Famur also carries out overhaul and service works, conducts overhaul research operations and also manufactures machines and equipment used in industry sectors other than mining. Famur Group has over 3,500 employees.

Source:wbj.pl