Solaris Bus & Coach
Solaris Bus & Coach S.A. is a Polish bus, coach and trolleybus manufacturer based in Bolechowo-Osiedle and Środa Wielkopolska, near Poznań, Poland.
It is a family-owned business, with Krzysztof Olszewski as president and his wife Solange as chairman (from October 2008). It is located in a former weapons factory, and was featured by BBC World in a program related to EU expansion in May 2004, as an example of a post-communist success in Poland.
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