Polish online retailers looking to go global

E-commerce
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.
Around 65 pct of Polish companies in this sector are currently active in foreign markets (58 pct in Western and Central Europe, 26 pct in Eastern Europe, 9 pct in Asia and 6 pct in the USA). Around 20 pct of these retailers also set up new sales outlets. The biggest risks to these businesses are changing laws and increasing competition from large international chains. The latest trends on the ecommerce market include same day deliveries, as well as the use of virtual reality and artificial intel
Already have an account? Log in
46% of content remaining
Unlock full access to the article
PLN
EUR
Lifetime access to current material
One-time payment, lifetime access.
Choose
Access includes
  • Lifetime access to current material
Most popular
EurobuildCEE magazine & online subscription
Access to all EurobuildCEE materials
Monthly
Annually
You save 17% when paying annually
Monthly on one device. Annual payment
Monthly on one device. Monthly payment
Choose
Access includes
  • Access to EurobuildCEE magazine edition online & flipbook version
  • Exclusive news, comments, articles and interviews with the most important market representatives and experts
  • Archive containing data and information from the commercial real estate and construction market in Poland and the CEE region, collected over 27 years;
  • Eurojobs
  • Eurobuild FM

Latest news

Residential

Polish new-build sales jump 50 pct in August

schedule 08 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

The Polish new-build housing market continued to recover over the summer. According to the latest Housing Price Barometer from Tabelaofert, around 4,200 new homes were sold across the country’s seven largest markets in August, almost 50 pct more than a year earlier.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland The Shire extends lease at Korona in Kraków

schedule 08 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

The Shire – Beyond Coworking will remain at Centrum Biurowe Korona in Kraków. The premium serviced office operator has extended its lease for approximately 2,500 sqm in the Galileo building.

Retail & leisure

Fort Wola expands its tenant mix with four new brands

schedule 08 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Fort Wola is expanding its offer with four new brands. Monnari and Ale Skarpety have already opened stores at the shopping centre, while Wędzarnia Dunikowscy and Starbucks will join them in September and October. The four new units occupy more than 500 sqm in total.

Retail & leisure

Poland Lidl opens in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki

schedule 08 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Lidl has opened a new store in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. The store at ul. gen. J. Bema 7 was built by Rutkowski Construction on behalf of Rutkowski Commercial, which remains the property owner.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland LPP relocates Warsaw office to Saski Crescent

schedule 08 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

LPP, owner of the Reserved, Cropp, House, Mohito and Sinsay brands, has relocated its Warsaw office to Saski Crescent. The company has taken 2,000 sqm of space combining offices, a showroom and business meeting areas. Colliers advised LPP on the lease, while its Colliers Define team was responsible for the interior design and fit-out.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni starts construction of City Logistics Łódź V

schedule 08 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Panattoni has started construction of City Logistics Łódź V. The new logistics park on Lodowa Street will ultimately offer more than 42,700 sqm of space. One of the project’s tenants will be Zadbano, which has leased approximately 8,400 sqm.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland V Tower seeks accessibility certification

schedule 08 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Warsaw’s V Tower office building is undergoing the “Building Without Barriers” certification process conducted by the Integracja Foundation. The process is part of a comprehensive modernisation of the building, including the refurbishment of the lobby, replacement of lifts and solutions designed to improve acoustics and safety.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Global e-commerce platform leases 65,000 sqm from Hillwood Polska

schedule 08 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Hillwood Polska has signed lease agreements with one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms for more than 65,000 sqm of warehouse space at Hillwood Syców and Hillwood Poznań – Czempiń. The deals bring both logistics parks to full occupancy.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Kraków city centre remains the city’s leading office location

schedule 07 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Kraków city centre remains the city’s leading office location. In the first half of 2026, occupier demand for central locations increased, while developer activity remained limited. According to Newmark Polska’s Office Occupier – Kraków Office Market report, rising vacancy outside the city centre and limited new supply are creating increasingly different conditions across Kraków’s office market.

Retail & leisure

Poland LPP reaches 4,000-store milestone

schedule 07 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

LPP has reached the 4,000-store milestone, strengthening its position as one of Europe’s leading fashion retailers. The Gdańsk-based group, owner of Reserved, Cropp, House, Mohito and Sinsay, is present in 47 markets, with its retail network covering more than 3.2 mln sqm across three continents.

Investment & finance

Poland Poland strengthens its position among developed markets

schedule 07 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Poland is strengthening its position among developed markets. S&P Dow Jones Indices has decided to reclassify the country from an emerging to a developed market. The change will take effect in September 2027, when Poland will join the S&P Developed BMI as the 27th country in the index. FTSE Russell and STOXX already classify Poland as a developed market.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Tryton Business House takes on Provincial Disability Assessment Board

schedule 07 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

The Pomeranian Voivodeship Office in Gdańsk has selected Tryton Business House as the new headquarters of the Provincial Disability Assessment Board. The board will occupy nearly 1,600 sqm of office space.

Retail & leisure

Poland X-kom opens in Nowe Bielawy in Toruń

schedule 07 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

X-kom has opened in Nowe Bielawy in Toruń, alongside a refurbished NEONET store, bringing electronics, consumer electronics and household appliances together under one roof.

Retail & leisure

Poland Decathlon to remain at Vis à Vis Wilanów in Warsaw

schedule 07 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Decathlon has extended its lease at Warsaw’s Vis à Vis Wilanów retail park, where it has been a tenant since 2018. The store occupies 607 sqm.

Office & mixed-use development

Hungary Henkel and ARM expand in Budapest’s Millennium Gardens

schedule 07 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Henkel Hungary and ARM Hungary, the two largest tenants at Millennium Gardens in Budapest, have expanded their office space and signed new long-term lease agreements at the scheme.

Investment & finance

Romania Romanian Investors Step Up Commercial Real Estate Activity

schedule 07 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Romanian investors have acquired commercial real estate worth a combined EUR 2.066 bln over the past 20 years, with 69 pct of that capital invested since 2020, according to Fortim Trusted Advisors, a member of the BNP Paribas Real Estate Alliance.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Harden Construction builds Panattoni Park Toruń II for InPost

schedule 04 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Harden Construction is building Panattoni Park Toruń II, a 16,500 sqm cross-dock facility in Lubicz Dolny near Toruń. InPost will be the main tenant.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Hellmann Worldwide Logistics leases 5,350 sqm at MLP Poznań

schedule 04 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics Polska has leased 5,350 sqm of warehouse and office space at MLP Poznań. The company plans to start operations at the new facility in the first quarter of 2027.

Warehouse & industrial

PepsiCo launches automated warehouse in Grodzisk Mazowiecki

schedule 04 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

PepsiCo has opened a fully automated warehouse at its production plant in Grodzisk Mazowiecki after a USD 10 mln investment. The new facility adds storage capacity, streamlines product handling and will allow more direct deliveries.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland E-commerce company takes 20,000 sqm at Panattoni Park Wałbrzych

schedule 04 September 2026
Opr./edited by AH

A leading e-commerce company has leased nearly 20,000 sqm at Panattoni Park Wałbrzych. The deal marks another lease with Panattoni and gives the tenant a new base in Lower Silesia for serving European markets.

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.

Read flipbook version

Edition 6 (308) June 2026

Latest comments

Categories

Your order
Your data
Number of access accounts
Each account provides independent access on one device. You will be able to create additional access accounts in the account settings.
Invoicing data
Order summary
Net price
Access accounts #
Net order
VAT (%)
Gross order
Payment security is ensured

Don`t miss out the current edition