BALTIC STATES PAINT INDUSTRY FEATURE
September 1st, 2006
BY MARK ROWE
WHEN it came to accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004, the Baltic States were something of a special case. Though unable to compete on the same scale as their neighbours in Poland, or further south, Ukraine and the Czech Republic, the economies of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia quickly gained a reputation for being micro economic powerhouses - and the same has applied to their paint industries.
The three countries have witnessed the largest growth since accession to the EU (6% in Lithuania and 5.5% each in Latvia and Estonia). And while there ...
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