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.
Retail & leisure
Jysk, which took up around 1,300 sqm, and Piekarnia Cukiernia Grzybki bakery (around 170 sqm) are new tenants at the Glinianka retail park. The park is being built in the village of Łubna, near Warsaw, and will provide the Mazovian market with around 10,000 sqm of leasable space.
Office & mixed-use development
Intive global tech company has let 62 workstations in the flexible Myhive offices belonging to CPI Property Group.
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Office & mixed-use development
The Vibe office building is climbing up. The underground structure of the edifice has been completed. Ghelamco's latest investment is expected to be ready in the first quarter of 2024.
Investment & finance
2022 was a successful year for the property developer CTP. The company, operating in 10 European countries, has successfully managed to deal with the impact of global events on the European market. In 2022, the portfolio area in the Czech Republic was expanded by 300,000 sqm, bringing the total area to 3.8 mln sqm. Rental income increased by 13 pct year-on-year to EUR 230.3 mln. At present, CTP is the largest player in the Czech industrial-logistics property market with a 28 pct share.
Investment & finance
Lorand and Zsuzsanna Szarvadi, the owners of the Balvanyos Resort & Spa in Covasna, acquired the K+K Elisabeta hotel located in the Bucharest city centre, and they will relaunch it under the newly established Peakture hotel brand.
Residential
According to the latest Avison Young report, at the end of 2022, there were over 9.4 thousand units in the pool of apartments for institutional rent in Poland, and another 13 thousand flats were under construction. The prolonging conflict in Ukraine and the significantly reduced credit scores increase the demand for renting apartments and thus, affect the development of the PRS market in Poland.
Warehouse & industrial
CTP has leased an area of 2,800 sqm to the food supplements manufacturer Sun Wave Pharma in the industrial park CTPark Bucharest South, located in the south of Bucharest, in the Popești - Leordeni area. From here, the products of the company will be delivered to both Romania and Bulgaria, with the warehouse acting as a regional hub.
Office & mixed-use development
The scale of office investments carried out in Poland today is much smaller than in previous years, while the demand for space is still high, according to consultants from Walter Herz.
Office & mixed-use development
Flexible office space operator CitySpace will open its first Łódź venue in the Fuzja complex. It will offer 301 workstations and three meeting rooms. CitySpace Fusion is scheduled to open in May 2023.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has completed a new build-to-own development for DHL Parcel, a division of a global logistics company. DHL acquired a cross-docking centre with area of almost 9,000 sqm late last year. The development in Kostrzyn is yet another built to suit complex constructed by Panattoni for the DHL group and yet another in the Wielkopolska region.
Green projects
Energy consumption reduced by almost 48 pct, almost 4 mln litres of water saved in a year and CO2 emissions reduced by more than 3,900 tonnes - these are the savings generated by the Warsaw P180 office building, developed by Skanska in Warsaw by the Wilanowska metro station. The investment has just received LEED Core & Shell certification at the Platinum level.
Warehouse & industrial
VGP, a European owner, manager and developer of logistics and semi-industrial real estate, has leased over 8,000 sqm of space in VGP Park Bucharest North to Alaska Energies.
Warehouse & industrial
Peakside Capital has signed a lease agreement with courier company DPD Polska for 7,000 sqm of cross-dock space at the City Point Targówek park in Warsaw. The complex is currently being completely redeveloped. It will ultimately provide nearly 100,000 sqm of commercial space. DPD Polska will move into the completed facility later this year.
Office & mixed-use development
Echo Investment and AFI Europe have unveiled their latest concept for the Towarowa 22 city-forming development in Warsaw. Offices, residential units for sale and rent, commercial premises and an extensive park are to be built on the 6.5 ha plot.
Office & mixed-use development
In the third quarter of 2023, Craft Docs will occupy its brand-new office on the third floor of Krausz Palota for over 1,000 sqm. Online documentation and efficiency solutions company will be the building's first tenant following its comprehensive 2-year renovation.
Eurobuild FM
We invite you to the next, penultimate episode of a special series of podcasts from Cannes! Today, Polish experts will answer e.g. to a seemingly simple question: is it worth investing in Poland and why is it the best destination.
Warehouse & industrial
New Zealand-based logistics provider Mainfreight has leased 2,540 sqm of warehouse and office space in Panattoni Park Sosnowiec III.
Warehouse & industrial
Dutch multinational dairy cooperative FrieslandCampina is consolidating its Romanian operations in Mureș City Logistics in Transylvania, which is being developed by Global Vision in partnership with Globalworth.
Office & mixed-use development
The Polish branch of German software developer SAP is to move into the 11th floor of the Varso Tower building in central Warsaw, where it will occupy almost 1,400 sqm.
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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