Home from home as visitors buy own news, food and drink
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6 August 2007
The Times
English
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As the UK Polish population has grown, businesses have developed to take advantageof the new market.
There are a number of newspapers for the migrant population, including the PolishExpress which was set up in October 2003 and is now Britain's biggest Polish weekly newspaper.
In March this year Nottingham in Polish was launched to keep the city's Polishcommunity up to date with events and to help new arrivals settle in, and there is also a magazine, Goniec Polski, aka The Polish Times, in London.
On the airwaves there is the Anglo-Polish station Radio Orla, based in Ealing Broadway.
Food shops have also adapted to tickle Polish tastebuds. As well as a growing numberof specialist food shops, cafes and restaurants such as Polish Specialities and the Polanka restaurant in London, Polish cuisine has caught the attention of the supermarket giants.
Tesco started selling a range of products last year including Polish bread, juniper sausages and goulash which are now available in one in six branches.
Sainsbury's and Asda have now joined in with their own Polish products.
And to wash it down there is plenty of Polish beer. Sales of the Polish lagerTyskie grew by 400 per cent last year, while BDD, the UK's largest importer of Polish beer, saw sales double in the 12 months up to April 2007.
The growing Polish population has also meant a boom for booksellers. Specialistbusinesses offering Polish literature include Orbis Books and Veritas Foundation Publication Centre in London and Bright Books in Manchester.
