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Kabel Technik Polska makes cables used by various industries, with the biggest share of its output supplied to automotive, aviation, and renewable energy manufacturers. These include Volkswagen, MAN, Volvo, Scania, Otis, Bombardier, ABB, Vestas and Alstom. Set up in 1996, the Polish company was acquired by local car parts producer Inter Auto Groclin In March 2013.

The report concludes that the emerging economies are set to grow much faster than the G7 over the next four decades. Figures for average growth in GDP in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms (which adjusts for price level differences across countries) show Nigeria leading the way over the period from 2012 to 2050, followed by Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. John Hawksworth, PwC Chief Economist and co-author of the report, explains: "The global financial crisis has hit the G7 much harder than the E7 in the short term. And it has also caused downward revisions in the estimates of longer term trend growth in the G7 – particularly those economies in Europe and the US that had previously relied on excessive public and private borrowing to drive growth.” This means that, in PPP terms: The E7 could overtake the G7 before 2020 By 2050 China, the US and India could be by far the largest economies – with a big gap to Brazil in fourth place, ahead of Japan And by the same time, Russia, Mexico and Indonesia could be bigger than Germany or the UK; Turkey could overtake Italy; and Nigeria could rise up the league table, as could Vietnam and South Africa in the longer term. Beyond the largest economies, Malaysia has considerable long-term growth potential, while Poland could continue to outpace its Western European neighbours for some decades to come.

In all, the government is selling stakes in five of the power generating companies it controls, part of a privatisation programme to sell 25bn zlotys in assets this year, deemed vital if public debt is to be kept under control.