Shopping with a robot salesman
E-commerceschedule 26 September 2018
POLAND A Wrocław start-up has created a chatbot to sell and recommend goods to shoppers.
Investment & finance
UBM Development has sold Galeria Szperk in Kosakowo near Gdynia to the Polish company Rewa, based in Krakow, for almost EUR 18 mln.
Material partner
Peninsula Property is an investor and development company that builds high-quality, thoughtfully designed apartment buildings, boutique residences and hotels to ensure the best possible experience for future residents and tenants. It stands out for its innovative designs and concepts in the Polish market.
Hotels
The Sofitel Grand Sopot has changed hands. The Polish company Sinfam Investments became the new owner of the hotel. The seller was AccorInvest, which includes the Orbis group. Sofitel will remain the managing operator of the hotel.
Office & mixed-use development
Nivea Polska/Beiersdorf will open its first office in Warsaw, leasing nearly 400 sqm on the 37th floor of the HB Reavis-owned Varso Tower. The contract has been signed for five years and the office will begin operations in May 2025. The new headquarters will act as a satellite office and will also be a representative meeting space for the entire Eastern European region.
Warehouse & industrial
MLP Group has signed a lease agreement with Langowski Logistics, a Polish logistics operator specialising in international container transport. The company will occupy a total of more than 5,600 sqm of space in the MLP Pruszków II complex. The new tenant can already use a 5,400 sqm warehouse hall. Approx. 250 sqm of social and office space is still in the pipeline, to be moved into in August 2025.
Retail & leisure
An 800 sqm Biedronka grocery store is to open on the ground floor of the Moje Bielany residential complex, which is being developed by CeMat A/S at ul. Wólczyńska 121 in Warsaw’s Bielany district.
Office & mixed-use development
Infor, a company offering cloud-based business software solutions, has renewed its lease at Globalworth's Retro Office House in Wrocław.
Warehouse & industrial
Mountpark has secured Alza, an online retailer in Central and Eastern Europe, as the first customer at Mountpark Bratislava. Alza has leased a 65,000 sqm facility in Building A at the logistics park, construction of which commenced in October.
Warehouse & industrial
Garbe has announced the full occupancy of all its industrial parks in the CEE region. The recently vacated space of 10,000 sqm in Garbe Park Senec was immediately occupied by logistics company Würth International Trading.
Retail & leisure
LCP Properties, part of the international M Core group, has officially opened M Park Pionki, the 50th retail park under the M Park brand in Poland. It is also the thirteenth M Park in the Mazovia region.
Retail & leisure
A service and retail complex Panorama Park II is being built in Kościelna Wieś. At the end of November, the foundation stone ceremony for the building took place.
Residential
The 30-ha revitalised site formerly occupied by the Silesia Metallurgical Plant will become home to a modern mixed-use district Nowy Wełnowiec with predominantly residential functions. Nearly a third of the area will be dedicated to open green spaces. The Capital Park Group is responsible for the implementation and management of the project.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni will begin construction of a new park in the Silesian voivodship - Panattoni Park Sosnowiec V. The investment will ultimately comprise two buildings with a total space of over 52,000 sqm. The first tenant is Hebe, for which a BTS distribution centre will be prepared within the facility.
Warehouse & industrial
CTP has handed over a new 100,000 sqm logistics centre in Hungary to Tesco. Built as part of a greenfield investment spanning 60 ha near Szigetszentmiklós, the state-of-the-art facility aims to enhance Tesco’s efficiency in serving Hungarian customers and optimise transportation logistics. The centre will fully serve Tesco stores nationwide starting in March 2025.
Investment & finance
Echo Investment signed a conditional sale agreement for React, the office building in Łódź. Upon conclusion of the deal, the asset will be acquired by Summus Capital, an Estonian-based investment company.
Office & mixed-use development
Transporeon, an international logistics company, has extended its lease agreement at Porto Office A building in Kraków, where it occupies over 1,900 sqm.
Eurobuild Awards
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Investment & finance
The purchaser of the recently completed logistics property which was planned, developed and realised by ECE Work & Live is a German investor, represented by Savills Investment Management.
Warehouse & industrial
CTP has signed new leases with two logistics businesses on almost 30,000 sqm of space across CTPark Bremen and CTPark Oschersleben in Germany.
Warehouse & industrial
P3 Logistic Parks has started at P3 Poznań park the construction of a warehouse with a total area of nearly 27,000 sq m for ochama, a European omni-channel brand owned by Chinese retailer JD.com.
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.
Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.
POLAND Wildberries, the Russian online retailer that debuted on the Polish market in January, has revealed some of its initial Polish sales figures.
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.
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.
WORLD Online second had clothes store Thredup store has created a Fashion Footprint Calculator to calculate the carbon footprint of your purchasing habits.
POLAND DHL Parcel will this year have opened 1,000 new locations for despatching and collecting courier parcels.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
POLAND Lidl is to launch an online store for Poland – lidl-sklep.pl.
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.
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.
POLAND A Wrocław start-up has created a chatbot to sell and recommend goods to shoppers.
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.
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.
WORLD Marks & Spencer has partnered with True, which operates in the new-tech segment, to focuses on innovation and digital transformation.
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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