Impact of business corporations on the Polish food market

The paper aimed at analysis of changes taking place in the food market in Poland under the influence of transnational business corporations. Their physical and financial assets, and knowledge enable them to exert an increasing influence on other market participants, and to develop rapidly. However, due to the large number of transnational corporations (lower concentration) their impact on the Polish food market in the first decade of the twenty-first century proceeded somewhat differently than in other developed countries in Europe.