PKP Group
The PKP Group was formed on 1 January 2001 as a result of the commercialization of the Polish State Railways (Polskie Koleje Państwowe, PKP) state enterprise. The parent company within the Group is PKP S.A., which is fully owned by the state treasury.
PKP S.A. is also the owner and administrator of real property, of which the company has more than 100 000 hectares. A significant part of the firm's assets consists of railway station buildings, of which there are more than 2500 in the whole of Poland. The organizational unit set up by the company appointed to manage station buildings is PKP S.A.'s Rail Stations Division, which was created on 1 May 2005, and currently manages 916 stations all over the country.
The principal objective of PKP S.A.'s Rail Stations Division is to maintain suitable standards of service and travelling conditions for people using railway stations as local transport hubs. This work involves not only firms belonging to the PKP Group, but also cooperating firms providing goods and services at stations and in adjacent areas, as well as partners dealing with social issues.
At present a wide-ranging programme is under way to renovate and modernize more than 30 stations throughout Poland. The largest of them are being prepared for the Euro 2012 championships - these include Warsaw Central and Warsaw East, and the central stations in Katowice, Wrocław, Gdynia and Kraków.


