Zalando grows

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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 cu
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Europe Bringing something different to leadership

schedule 13 February 2026
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Following the announcement of Simon Durkin as the new CEO for ULI Europe, we caught up with him to find out what he envisions for the organisation.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Harmonia opens in Olivia

schedule 12 February 2026
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The Lux Med Group has opened the Harmonia Mental Health Clinic in the Olivia Prime office building, part of the Olivia Centre complex in Gdańsk. This is the first Harmonia location in the Tricity area.

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Romania Strabag to build for Alesonor

schedule 12 February 2026
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Alesonor, has appointed Strabag Romania as the general contractor for the construction of stage II of the Amber Forest suburb, located in Tunari, Ilfov County.

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Germany Investika enters Germany

schedule 12 February 2026
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The Investika Real Estate Fund is entering Germany through the planned acquisition of an 89.9 pct stake in the Höfe am Brühl shopping centre in Leipzig. The transaction creates a joint venture with Unibail‑Rodamco-Westfield Germany, which is to remain a minority shareholder and will continue to provide asset and property management services.

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Poland Panattoni financed by Santander

schedule 12 February 2026
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Panattoni has secured a EUR 26.5 mln from Santander Bank Polska for its Warsaw Panattoni Park Warsaw North III project in Nadma.

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Poland Each city with different market

schedule 11 February 2026
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JLL has presented an overview of the current situation on the residential market in Poland. According to the seven markets of Wrocław, Warsaw, Poznań, Kraków, the Tricity, Łódź and Katowice, are all very different.

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ROMANIA Platinum for Premium Point and Plaza

schedule 11 February 2026
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The Premium Point and Premium Plaza office buildings, owned by GTC and located in the Piața Victoriei area of Bucharest (its CBD), have been awarded the LEED v4.1 Existing Buildings certificates at the highest ‘Platinum’ level.

Retail & leisure

POLAND Third M Park announced this year

schedule 11 February 2026
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LCP Poland, part of M Core, has announced the launch of another addition to its M Park network. Its latest retail park will be located in Biała Podlaska, in eastern Poland.

Office & mixed-use development

POLAND Strong demand but few new Warsaw offices

schedule 11 February 2026
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Warsaw’s office market ended 2025 in a stable condition, according to BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland’s ‘Review – Warsaw Office Market, Q4 2025’ report. Contract extensions, high transaction dynamics and the concentration of new supply in central locations were key factors for the market.

Retail & leisure

POLAND Smart Park moves to big city outskirts

schedule 11 February 2026
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The Smart Park chain is building two new retail parks. Work is already underway in Kobyłka near Warsaw, while another project is soon to begin in Pobiedziska on the eastern outskirts of Poznań.

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POLAND PPA for Signum Work Station

schedule 11 February 2026
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TriGranit has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Unimot, guaranteeing the supply of green energy from traceable renewable sources at Signum Work Station for the next three years

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Poland A time of rising cost pressure

schedule 10 February 2026
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The year 2026 promises to be a time of change for the Polish retail real estate market, according to the latest 'Trends Radar' report from  Cushman & Wakefield.

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schedule 10 February 2026
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The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has appointed Simon Durkin as Chief Executive Officer Europe, ULI, succeeding Lisette van Doorn, commencing early March 2026.

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Poland Green Caffè Nero moves to Saski Crescent

schedule 10 February 2026
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The Green Caffè Nero coffee shop chain has relocated its offices to the Saski Crescent building in central Warsaw. The company has taken up 960 sqm.

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Poland Cavare and Urban Partners team up

schedule 10 February 2026
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The NSF VI fund, managed by Urban Partners, has signed a forward funding agreement with Cavare, a subsidiary of the Cavatina Group. The financing includes the purchase of a site on ul. Jana z Kolna in Gdańsk, where Cavare is to develop a PRS development on behalf of the fund.

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Poland Hoerbiger to move to SOHO

schedule 10 February 2026
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International engineering firm Hoerbiger has leased nearly 200 sqm of office space in SOHO by Yareal in Warsaw on the ground floor of the Rubin building. The company is to officially move in in May this year.

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Poland Ingram Micro renews lease with MLP

schedule 10 February 2026
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Ingram Micro, one of the leading global distributors of IT solutions and mobile devices, has renewed its lease at the MLP Pruszków II logistics centre, for around 8,200 sqm of modern warehouse and office space. The deal was brokered by CBRE.

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Poland Olmed signs up with Panattoni

schedule 10 February 2026
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Germany KPE to deliver 40,000 sqm near Dortmund

schedule 10 February 2026
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Poland Tieto moves to studio A

schedule 09 February 2026
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Tieto, a Scandinavian IT services company, will move into the Studio A office building on ul. Prosta in Warsaw.

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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