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Together with Franklin Templeton Investments we have organised a campaign called “Follow your heart. Come back to Poznań”. You have already read the stories of two people who returned to Poland after a few years of working abroad. Today we present the company itself – meet Franklin Templeton Investments.

Decision to emigrate is difficult whether it was a well-considered or very spontaneous one. Returning to Poland and finding one’s feet in a new reality, different from the one left behind when going away, is also a great challenge. For some people this is a matter of priorities and values close to one’s heart while for others – a chance for new opportunities and fulfilling one’s dreams. Together with Franklin Templeton Investments we launch the campaign called “Follow your heart. Come back to Poznań” and a series of interviews with people who returned to Poland after years of emigration. Meet the first one of them: Monika Grygiel.

Immigrants’ linguistic abilities have an important impact on their access to employment opportunities on foreign labour markets. According to the American Community Survey, over 220,000 Poles in the United States (either immigrants or those who report Polish ancestry) are classified by the U.S. Census Bureau as limited English proficient (LEP) individuals. About 40% of Polish immigrants speak English less than very well.

To 2018, LPP intends to employ more than one thousand employees and spend nearly PLN 200 million in the area of R&D (research and development). This is a way of increasing the global competitiveness of the company that is present on 20 markets. In 2016, the value of LPP exports, driven primarily by the flagship brand Reserved, amounted to PLN 3 billion. The Gdańsk-based company also plans other investments – to the end of 2020 it will spend PLN 1.5 billion for the development of showroom networks in Poland and abroad.

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The seminars will take place on Saturday, 11th October 2014, at 4pm-6pm and on Friday 21st November 2014, at 2 pm – 4 pm in Gresham Metropole Hotel.

29% of surveyed companies admitted that in the next six months they plan to increase the employment. This is 3 percentage points’ growth compared to the previous quarter and the best result in nearly five-year history of the survey.