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Office yields across Europe fell during Q2 2010. The CB Richard Ellis office yield index for the EU-15 fell by four basis points in the quarter and 50 basis points from the same quarter last year. Seventeen of the 55 markets in the survey saw downward yield movement, 34 remained unchanged and four saw an increase. The largest yield reduction was in Moscow (down 100 basis points to 11%).

Huge crowds continue to gather outside the Presidential Palace and people are prepared to wait up to nine hours to pay their last respects to former President Lech Kaczynski and his wife who were among the 96 killed on Saturday's air crash to the north of Smolensk.

What the Oscar represent for the film industry, the POPAI Award are for the sales promotion sector. In Poland, where the STI Group has a Design Centre in Warsaw and a production plant for permanent displays near Gdansk, the group of companies were able to score with two different creative display solutions.

Satkar Gidda of the British SiebertHead speaks of the brand design market in Poland. Satkar has already worked with such major brands as Toblerone, Carlsberg, Wedel and other companies. The brand design agency seeks to create a channel of communication between the brand and the consumer and explains here of how people are seeking new ideas.

MTC Pharma Center specializes in the production of high quality foil packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. The company is owned by Austria-based MTC Holding, an international group with production sites also located in Croatia, Slovenia, Romania and Serbia, and works in partnership with Constantia Verpackungen AG Group.

Procter&Gamble plans to invest USD 50mn in a new cosmetics plant to be located in Aleksandrow Lodzki in Central Poland and another USD 50mn on expanding its plant in Warsaw’s district of Targowek, PG’s director general for Poland and Baltic countries, Marek Kapuscinski, said in an interview with the daily Wall Street Journal Polska .

London’s West End, Mumbai, the City of London and Moscow are the top four most expensive office markets in the world, according to CB Richard Ellis Research’s semi-annual Global Market Rents survey. The report tracks the world’s most expensive markets as well as markets with the fastest growing rents over the past 12 months.