Shopping for sheds

The boom in Polish retail affecting the warehouse sector? ‘Eurobuild Poland’ speaks to Simon Hollins, director for the CEE region of industrial developer Segroz Nathan North, “Eurobuild Poland”: How much of your business is accounted for by customers from the retail sector?Simon Hollins, director for the CEE region, Segro: We’ve got retailers in each of our parks, probably accounting for 25 pct of our business. For other operators it is difficult to say – one big letting can change things dramatically – but I would say most big developers will have somewhere between 20 and 40 pct of their space taken by retailers. It is quite an encouraging spread we have – logistics companies etc. The boom in retail in Poland, especially in the big population centres, has increased the demand for warehousing – so distribution centres and supply chains have to be set up. It certainly underlines the need to be close to major population centres. There