CZECH/SLOVAK FEATURE
August 1st, 2005
BY MARK ROWEIT is difficult to separate the present-day Czech paint industry from the industrial heritage of the country. While the rest of the world made jokes about Skoda cars during the Communist era, the Czechs fumed as they saw a once great engineering industry reduced to a laughing stock. Now that communism has gone, that industry has wasted no time in recovering and brought with it many benefits to the paint industry. In addition, as Czechs have enthusiastically joined the European Union (EU), the market for domestic paint is also showing significant ...
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