Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,7, Helsinki School of Economics, course: Vattenfall’s entry into the polish market, language: English, abstract: Basic facts about the company Vattenfall is a state-owned company. It is wholly owned by the Swedish government. Today Vattenfall is the fifth largest electricity producer in Europe and the largest generator of heat.1 It acts in all parts of the electricity value chain: Vattenfall is active in electricity trading and generates, distributes and sells heat as well as it is active in services and consulting for the energy sector. Vattenfall has directly or indirectly 5 million customers and is active in Sweden and Finland as well as in Germany, the Baltic countries [...]