Zalando grows

E-commerce
EUROPE In the first quarter of 2017 Zalando continued to outperform the European fashion e-commerce market with revenues growing strongly by 23.1 pct to EUR 980.2 mln (Q1 2016: EUR 796.1 mln).
The adjusted EBIT of EUR 20.3 mln remained at a similar level to previous years (Q1 2016: EUR 20.2 mln) with a margin of 2.1 pct (Q1 2016: 2.5 pct). Zalando recorded 617.6 mln hits on its site in Q1 2017 compared to 479.5 mln a year before. Around 68.8 pct were from mobile devices (Q1 2017). “Our key priority is profitable growth, and that is what we delivered on in the first quarter,” said co-CEO Rubin Ritter. “We are determined to win further market share and reach more customers acro
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ROMANIA Pbb refinances Radisson Blu Bucharest

schedule 01 July 2026
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Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (Pbb) has provided EUR 123 mln in investment financing to funds managed by Cerberus Capital Management and Revetas Capital for the refinancing of the Radisson Blu hotel complex in central Bucharest. The bank acted as the financing arranger and sole lender.

Warehouse & industrial

POLAND InPost opens service centre in CTPark Opole

schedule 01 July 2026
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Polish parcel locker operator InPost Group has launched its OPO II Logistics and Service Centre at CTPark Opole in southwest Poland, which is to support the operations of its European network.

Retail & leisure

POLAND M Park opens in Nasielsk

schedule 01 July 2026
Opr./edited by NN

LCP Poland, part of M Core, has opened M Park Nasielsk about 50 km north of Warsaw, in what is the company’s fourth M Park opening since the beginning of 2026.

Investment & finance

ROMANIA Pavăl pockets Carrefour Romania for €823m

schedule 01 July 2026
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Pavăl Holding has completed the EUR 823 mln acquisition of Carrefour Romania, involving the purchase of the latter's operations, real estate assets and commercial funds in the country.

Retail & leisure

Czech Republic Czech Republic attracts retail brands

schedule 01 July 2026
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So far this year, 16 brands have debuted in the Czech Republic, according to data from Cushman & Wakefield. The most prominent segments were foodservice (seven brands) and fashion – including clothing, footwear, and accessories (four brands). Fourteen debuts took place in Prague, with one each in Ostrava and Pardubice.

Retail & leisure

Poland Karuzela Lubliniec grows

schedule 01 July 2026
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The expansion of the Karuzela Lubliniec retail park is nearing completion. The park will soon gain an additional 8,000 sqm, bringing its total gla to 16,500 sqm.

Data centres

EMEA region Data centres spread out across the region

schedule 01 July 2026
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The EMEA data centre market is entering a new phase where power availability, not demand, is defining growth, forcing a structural shift in how and where capital is deployed. According to Colliers’ EMEA Data Centre Markets Report | H1 2026, the region continues to see strong demand from hyperscale cloud, AI workloads and sovereign requirements, but the ability to convert that demand into operational capacity is becoming increasingly uneven.

Office & mixed-use development

Germany CA Immo to build from wood

schedule 01 July 2026
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 CA Immo has begun leasing the space for its Skygreen at Hallesche Ufer 74–76 in Berlin. A modern, sustainable 18,400 sqm six-storey office building using a hybrid timber construction is to be developed.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Offices above the warehouse

schedule 30 June 2026
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Companies are relocating their offices to warehouses and production plants in ever larger numbers, driven by cost savings, the need for better communication, and a more cohesive work environment. 

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Improved Water pressure in City Tower

schedule 30 June 2026
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Prague's tallest building, City Tower, has modernised its water supply system after nearly 20 years of operation. Two new Wilo pressure boosting stations were installed in the 109m office building, ensuring constant pressure on all 27 floors.

Warehouse & industrial

Hungary CTP comes to Pécs

schedule 30 June 2026
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CTP is to develop a 66,000 sqm industrial and logistics park in Pécs in southern Hungary. In the first stage, CTP is to develop a 14,200 sqm BTS building for an existing client.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland AvaFin chooses the Warsaw Trade Tower

schedule 30 June 2026
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AvaFin is to occupy the entire 24th floor of the Warsaw Trade Tower building, with a 1,200 sqm office space lease.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni Park Kielce now ready

schedule 30 June 2026
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Panattoni has handed over the final phase of Panattoni Park Kielce. The complex, situated on the city limits, comprises four modern buildings with a total floor area of approximately 66,000 sqm.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland 7R signs up BrandBQ

schedule 30 June 2026
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BrandBQ, the owner of the Medicine fashion brand, has leased more than 30,000 sqm at 7R Hub Nowa Huta in Kraków. The lease will be implemented in stages, with the first stage to be handed over to the tenant in November 2027, and the second to be operational by November 2028.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Two tenants for P3

schedule 30 June 2026
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P3 has announced the signing of two leases for space in its P3 Poznań logistics park. Long-standing tenant Colian Logistic has renewed its lease for 4,825 sqm of warehouse space, while Arctos Creme has signed a new agreement for 7,913 sqm.

Retail & leisure

Poland Harvest comes to Elektrownia

schedule 30 June 2026
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Harvest—a restaurant concept that serves contemporary Polish cuisine—has opened at Elektrownia Powiśle.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Dachser opens in Szczecin

schedule 29 June 2026
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Dachser has officially launched operations from its new transhipment terminal at ul. Cynkowa 5 in Panattoni Park Szczecin Trzebusz II. The centre has 3,500 sqm, including 700 sqm of offices.

Retail & leisure

Poland Key under construction in Giżycko

schedule 29 June 2026
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Construction work has begun on the new Keya retail park on ul. Obwodowa in Giżycko in northeast Poland. The project will comprise over 5,000 sqm anchored by a Biedronka supermarket.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Upward pressure on rents across the regions

schedule 29 June 2026
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Regional cities are entering a period of record-low new supply, which, given continued demand, will limit the availability of prime space, according to a CBRE report.

Residential

Poland Alides announces project in Żoliborz

schedule 29 June 2026
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Belgian real estate investor and developer Alides, is planning a new project in Warsaw's Żoliborz district. The planned development will comprise around 10,500 sqm of usable space.

Latest in E-commerce

schedule 12 January 2023

This is the end

Shopee is ending its operations in Poland. The Asian e-commerce platform, which debuted in Poland in 2021, intends to focus on operations in other regions of the world.

schedule 22 September 2020

Wildberries now growing in Ukraine

Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.

schedule 21 May 2020

Wildberries growing in April

POLAND Wildberries, the Russian online retailer that debuted on the Polish market in January, has revealed some of its initial Polish sales figures.

schedule 12 May 2020

Wildberries growing in Slovakia

SLOVAKIA Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, has entered the Slovakian market. The company has also anounced that it is considering investing EUR 200 mln in the development of a distribution centre in the country.

schedule 18 March 2020

E-commerce set to accelerate with Coronavirus

POLAND Cushman & Wakefield is cautious about predicting how the coronavirus pandemic will change online shopping habits but notes that many Polish companies are expecting a massive increase in their online orders.

schedule 30 January 2020

How much CO2 does your fashion sense generate?

WORLD Online second had clothes store Thredup store has created a Fashion Footprint Calculator to calculate the carbon footprint of your purchasing habits.

schedule 04 October 2019

A thousand new DHL Parcel pick-up points

POLAND DHL Parcel will this year have opened 1,000 new locations for despatching and collecting courier parcels.

schedule 26 September 2019

Logistics firms feeling the heat from e-commerce

POLAND According to the recent ‘Supply Chain for E-commerce. How to Meet the Challenges’ report published by DHL Supply Chain, most logistics companies in the contract logistics sector have yet to implement a strategy for the online retail segment.

schedule 28 August 2019

E-commerce is still a big challenge

WORLD Majority of companies have failed to fully implement an e-commerce strategy despite recognizing its importance, according to DHL’s global survey of nearly 900 decision-makers responsible for logistics or supply chain management and e-commerce.

schedule 29 July 2019

Hebe hits the net

POLAND Drugstore chain Hebe has officially launched its online store. Orders across Poland are delivered by courier. In Warsaw, parcels can also be picked up free of charge also in a chosen Hebe store.

schedule 18 July 2019

Airbnb modifies its practices

EUROPE The European Commission has announced that, as a result of negotiations with Airbnb, the platform has improved and fully clarified the accommodation and pricing offered to consumers on its site so that its standards meet EU consumer law.

schedule 17 July 2019

Europe points its big guns at Amazon

EUROPE The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Amazon's use of sensitive data from independent retailers who sell on its marketplace is in breach of EU competition rules.

schedule 16 April 2019

Lidl goes online in Poland

POLAND Lidl is to launch an online store for Poland – lidl-sklep.pl.

schedule 23 January 2019

Chamber for e-commerce

POLAND The Polish Chamber of Digital Commerce (e-Izba) has set up the Retailers Group e-Chamber to support companies who operate in e-commerce and omnichannel sales or are planning to start a business in this sector.

schedule 05 November 2018

Polish online retailers looking to go global

POLAND Around 24 pct of Polish online retailers are currently considering foreign expansion claims the ‘The Challenges of E-commerce’ report prepared by the Kronenberg Foundation at Citi Handlowy.

schedule 26 September 2018

Shopping with a robot salesman

POLAND A Wrocław start-up has created a chatbot to sell and recommend goods to shoppers.

schedule 25 September 2018

Internet traders running up debt

POLAND According to BIG InfoMonitor data, the debts of e-commerce traders came to PLN 126 mln at the end of June this year, up 19 pct on the end of 2017.

schedule 14 September 2018

Zara reorganises online sales

WORLD The Zara store chain is to complete and send out online orders directly from its brick and mortar stores. The Spanish-based Inditex group, which owns the Zara brand, believes it can make online orders easier for shoppers by processing individual orders in their stores. Whenever a product is unavailable online, but can be found in stock at a local store, it can be ordered immediately with home delivery.

schedule 06 September 2018

True innovation from Marks & Spencer

WORLD Marks & Spencer has partnered with True, which operates in the new-tech segment, to focuses on innovation and digital transformation.

schedule 26 July 2018

Almost half of Poles yet to embrace e-commerce

POLAND According to this year’s ‘E-commerce in Poland. Gemius for e-Commerce Poland’ report by Gemius, 44 pct of Polish internet users have yet to make any purchases on the internet.

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