Expand national companies beyond their borders. It is the mandate that Piotr MatczukPresident of Polish Fund for Development (PFR)he set last year when he took the reins of the country’s investment arm in June last year. Matczuk, an economist and manager with 17 years of professional experience, including 10 years of practice in international development institutions, will use The Polish Railway Pesa As a cornerstone of this policy, baptized as ‘Team Poland’, in a potential Public Acquisition Offer (OPA) on Talgo.
Interest in the company owned by the TRILLANTIC FUND, Torreal (Abelló investment vehicle) and The Oriol It could be intuit in Matczuck’s first interview As head of PFR, when he pointed out his preferential investment sectors: “Transportation and logistics, with a special approach to rail transport, which is the least polluting”.
In essence, PFR Capital Group is a Polish State and State Development Institution, based in Warsawwhich offers instruments to support the development of companies. Its strategy and instrument of instruments integrate different vehicles: Polski Fundusz Rozwoju, PFR Towarzystwo Funduszy Inwestycyjnych (PFR TFI) and PFR Ventures. It operates through its parent company or its subsidiaries, as well as through investment funds managed by group entities.
Apart from Pesa, PFR has another 19 companies such as ACC Recycling Services, Elementary Holding and Deepflare. Some of these direct investments have the fund as an anchor and unique shareholder, while in others he lives as coinversor. According PitchBook platform data Facilitated to ‘Electonomista.es’, PFR counts 21.6 billion slots in assets under management (5,167 million euros to the current change), according to data from 2021.
‘Team Poland’ is the strategy that PFR wants to implement to bring national companies to a next level and has Sweden and Finland as mirror countries. “Foreign investments of Polish companies represent an accumulated value of 5-6 % of GDP, while in many EU countries exceed 100 % of GDP,” Matczuk said.
Weigh, key in the gear
Pesa, which belongs mostly to PFR since 2018, It is the participated chosen to design the purchase of the Talgo Railway Group. This is the largest manufacturer of rolling material in Poland and one of the main ones in the Central and Eastern European region. Use about 4,000 workers in their Bydgoszcz and Minsk Mazowiecki plants and focuses on locomotives, trams and regional and interregional vehicles.
Its presence is international and its rolling material is used in 11 countries in Europe and Asiasuch as Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Estonia and Bulgaria. Among the main clients are some that Share with Talgo, like Deutsche Bahnas well as others such as the National Railways Poles, Treitalia (owner of the Spanish Iro) or? Eské Dráhy.
Those who defend the integration between Pesa and Talgo see many synergies -it is about it is The Memorandum of Understanding they signed in September of 2024, before knowing the purchasing plans. One of the main strengths is in high speed, where the arrival of the Avril de Talgo train to Poland and The strong presence of PESA in the region would open new markets in Eastern Europe For the products of the Spanish company.
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