Taking Polish success across the Oder

Rafał Ostrowski, ‘Eurobuild Central & Eastern Europe’: What’s new at MLP Group? Agnieszka Góźdź, sales director for Poland and Romania, MLP Group: Soon we are going to beat our target for this year by leasing out a total of around 250,000 sqm, including 140,000 sqm in Poland, 20,000 sqm in Romania and 90,000 sqm in Germany. I’m not talking about renegotiations but about new contracts. Why are your results so good? It’s certainly due to the current boom on the market. Demand is being driven by the rapid development of e-commerce. We can see this really clearly. Online stores need on average three times more storage space than normal retail chains, so the demand is mainly coming from e-commerce and also from the logistics and courier companies that serve it. This is the first thing. Secondly, the locations we operate in are also important. The highest demand is now in five major markets and we operate in each of them – except for central Pol