Nearly 14,000 Ukrainian companies were established in Poland in the first half of 2023, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) reported.
“This is nearly the same number as in the entire year 2022,” PIE experts wrote, adding that nearly one out of ten companies established in Poland in that period was a Ukrainian one.
“In the first half of 2023, a total of 13,900 Ukrainian companies were registered in Poland,” Katarzyna Debkowska, a PIE expert, wrote in a report.
Debkowska added that this figure accounted for 87% of all companies with Ukrainian capital included in the central economic activity register in 2022.
“Since the beginning of 2023, over 2,000 Ukrainian sole proprietorships have been established every month. In the first half of 2023, Ukrainian companies accounted for 67% of all new foreign firms in Poland and for 10% of the total of new one-man businesses,” she said.
According to PIE, 23% of the new Ukrainian firms are construction companies and 18% are transport businesses.
In 2022, Ukrainians launched nearly 16,000 sole proprietorships, or 6% of all companies established in Poland last year.
According to PIE analysts, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, a total of 29,400 Ukrainian one-man companies were registered in Poland as of the end of June. (PAP/Business World Magazine)
