Słupsk Special Economic Zone
Profile of the region
Slupsk is a medium sized centre of trade and commerce in the middle part of Poland's Baltic coast.
The region is of an agricultural-industrial and tourist-leisure character. Its raw material base such as forests and arable lands which serve to stimulate the development of specific branches of industry.
The biggest branches of industry in the Slupsk region include:
- Wood and furniture,
- Machinery and electro-machinery,
- Leather and footwear,
- Agricultural-food and fish processing,
- Synthetic goods manufacture,
- Automotive industry.
Foreign capital is making its presence felt in the Slupsk region with increasing force. The firms currently operating in ther region include:
- Dom-Plast S.A., subsidiary of the American firm Rubbermaid, a leader in the plastic products sector;
- Scania Kapena S.A., a subsidiary of the Swedish form Scania AB, producing lorries and coaches Scania;
- Nestle Polska, a Swiss firm specialising in dairy products;
- Pomorzanka Zaklady Przemyslu Cukierniczego, a firm with Swiss capital, well-known producer and exporter of confectionery;
- Farm Frites Poland S.A. in Lebork - firm with Dutch capital, processing potato chips;
- Flair Poland Sp. z o.o. of the German Schieder Gruppe, producing upholstered furniture.
Tourism
Besides industry, the region's profile is also shaped by tourism. The coastal resorts lying along an 85-kilometre stretch of beautiful sandy beaches offer active forms of leisure.The magnificent natural environment, almost 20% of which is under conservation order, numerous unpolluted lakes and rivers abounding in fish, make the Słupsk region a special place for tourists and holiday-makers. The S3upsk region, regarded as one of the country's more beautiful areas, is ideal for active rest and leisure, and also provides excellent investment opportunities, not only for the leisure and hotel sector.
Human resources and education
The broad cross-section of professional skills available in the area - beginning with qualified blue-collar workers and on to engineers and economists, allows potential investors to develop their businesses rapidly. The region has at its disposal an experienced cadre of managers and technical back up with high level professional qualifications, particularly in the following sectors and branches:
- Mechanics
- Electronics
- Chemicals
- Timber
- Leather
- Agricultural-food
- Construction.
Graduates from the Higher School of Management in S3upsk remain at the disposal of foreign and domestic firms coming into the area. The School educates specialists in management, marketing, finance and banking. In turn, Gdansk Polytechnic and Koszalin Polytechnic offer broad ranging technical degrees which provide a steady stream of engineers. Moreover, Słupsk has the Akademia Kszta3cenia Zawodowego (Professional Training Academy), Centrum Kszta3cenia Ustawicznego (Continuing Education Training Centre) and the Zakład Doskonalenia Zawodowego (Professional Improvement Establishment), which provide supplementary courses custom-made for the needs of individual employers.
Zone profile
The Słupsk Special Economic Zone occupies a 167 ha site. It is situated in an industrial area in the North-Western part of Słupsk itself. It is barely 2 km away from the town centre and provides very amenable transport conditions.
Transport infrastructure
The E28 international highway runs through Słupsk, catering for the traffic along the Szczecin-Słupsk-Gdansk section and farther East, across the border. The Zone itself is traversed by the provincial Route 21, connecting Ustki with Słupsk, Poznan, Wroc3aw and the countries of Southern Europe. An electric railway runs through the centre of the zone, which is adapted to both passenger and goods traffic. The fishing-trading port of Ustki is 15 km away from the Zone, where there is a customs post. It is anticipated that in the near future there will be a reactivation of the local airport. This will operate on the site of the military airfield in Redzikowie, alongside the E-28, about 3 km away from Słupsk.
There is a Customs Division barely a kilometre and a half away from the Zone's perimeter, which is equipped to clear all exports and imports for customs.
Investments in the Zone to date
Investor's Type Number name of business of employees activity
- DOMBET Concrete production 25 people
- PROBET Concrete production 35 people
- EGIDA Construction materials 20 people
- B.BAJCAR Construction carpentry 115 people
- TURAS Automotive parts 26 people
- ZASTA Tanks POLSKA and cisterns 200 people
- SOBCAR Automotive parts 50 people
- MEBLOSTAL Carpentry -WIK construction 50 people
- COM Printing and polygraphics 30 people
- D?WIGBUD Freight transport 25 people
- HENRYK Distribution LIPINSKI sector 5 people
Investment reliefs
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Exemptions from income tax on investments up to 700,000 Euro.
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Full exemption from income tax on investments exceeding 700,000 Euro.
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Exemptions from income tax on employment. 20% exemption on every 10 workers employed in a given month, up to a ceiling of 100% of monthly income.
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Tax exemptions are applicable for the ten year period commencing on the day that economic activity begins in the Zone.
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After 10 years, the employer will be able to continue to enjoy exemptions for the lifetime of the S3upsk Special Economic Zone. These exemptions will not be able to exceed 50% of income gained in each tax year.
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Businesses in the S3upsk Special Economic Zone are exempt from property tax.
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Businesses which do not have the right to reliefs and exemptions as described above may utilise increased depreciation rates on fixed assets (maximum co-efficient of 4).
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The possibility of including in cost of earnings gross expenditure on the purchase of intangible and legal assets - licenses, patents, computer programmes etc, connected directly with the economic activity they carry on in the Zone.
Local content
It is important to note that a firm does not have to complete its entire production in the zone. The net share of materials and services produced outside the Zone, however, should not exceed 70% of the net value of the entire product or service produced in the Zone. Słupsk Special Economic Zone investors can also take advantage of additional financial benefits. These apply to firms taking on unemployed people and they include:
- Partial refund of wages
- Refund of part of social security costs
- Beneficial loans for the organisation of new workplaces
Preferred types of activity in the Słupsk Special Economic Zone
- Electro-machinery and electronic industries
- Agricultural and food processing, particularly fish processing
- Synthetic materials processing
- Wood and furniture
- Leather.
Management of the Zone:
Pomorska Regional Development Agency S.A.
ul. Poznanska 1 A, 76-200 Slupsk
tel./fax: (+48 59) 8412892
e-mail:office@parr.slupsk.pl
http://www.parr.slupsk.pl/