The conference took place on May 29^th at the PAIiIZ Information Centre. The aim of the conference was to present a guide prepared by KPMG with cooperation with the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency entitled „Poland as the destination for Shared Services Centres".

The publication provides investors with detailed information about attractive investment destinations for the SSC sector in Poland and about the Polish incentive system. The report presents also examples of the centres successfully operating in Poland.

Jerzy Kalinowski, KPMG Partner, who heads the advisory firm's Information, Communications and Entertainment practice, said that in the context of the CEE region, the main advantage of Poland for locating SSCs is the high quality of available resources resulting from the strength of the educational system, combined with the desire of Poles to improve their education. We are the leader in Europe for continuing education. He noted that surprisingly, the global crisis and the devaluation of the Polish currency can be appealing to potential investors who are looking for ways to reduce costs.

Robert Seges, Team Head Services, PAIiIZ, said that in accordance to FDI Intelligence Unit data from January 2003 to April 2009 Poland was the 6th most important target market in the world in terms of the number of greenfield BPO projects (78 projects) and the number of workplaces (24 425). In the ranking, among European countries only United Kingdom is ahead of Poland. Given the capital invested in greenfield BPO projects only China and India were better than Poland. During this period foreign direct investments in this sector in Poland amounted to 2,1 billion USD. In 2009, in FDI Intelligence Unit's database there were 4 BPO projects, in 2008 - 13 projects, in 2007 - 17 projects. It should be stressed that in the world scale the number of greenfield projects in BPO sector was considerably higher than a year before. It proves the attractiveness of this sector in the time of  crisis.

The full version of the report is available on the web site http://www.paiz.gov.pl/ in the News section.