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TVP shows patience Construction firm Pia Piasecki has been granted a reprieve from its recent troubles by TVP, the state-owned television company. A contract for a new car-park and office building, (of 16,000 sqm), will go ahead despite a four-month delay in the construction, which had been scheduled for completion in February 2003. TVP are keen to re-house its advertising subsidiary, Biuro Reklamy, from Curtis Plaza to the new premises nearer its headquarters and another schedule is to be drawn up with Pia Piasecki. Mitex and Budimex the biggest With an income around PLN 800 mln, Kielce-based company Mitex was the most successful Polish constructor in 2001, according to the list of 100 published by Murator. The next companies in the ranking were Exbud Skanska, (PLN 620 mln) and Warbud, (PLN 500 mln.) The largest capital group was found to be Budimex with an income of around PLN 2.5 bln. Exbud Skan