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
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Office & mixed-use development

Poland Running out of space

schedule 04 February 2026
Opr./edited by AH

At the end of Q4 2025, the total stock of modern office space in Poland's eight main regional markets reached 6.72 mln sqm, according to the latest data from CBRE. The availability of vacant offices has decreased in most cities.

Residential

Poland Roma given the go-ahead

schedule 04 February 2026
Opr./edited by AH

The Roma Tower apartment building project has received a final building permit. The 170m building is to be built in the centre of Warsaw. Preparations for the project have been underway since 2017, when the local development plan for the ul. Poznańska area was adopted.

Investment & finance

Poland Taifun to become university building

schedule 04 February 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Indotek Group has sold the Taifun office building in Warsaw to Lazarski University. The building will house teaching facilities for the country's first private dental studies course.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Iglotex comes to P3 Błonie

schedule 04 February 2026
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P3 Logistic Parks has signed a lease agreement with Iglotex, one of Poland’s leading producers and distributors of frozen food. The company has leased 9,260 sqm of space in P3 Błonie.

Events

Poland Register now for bieg na szczyt

schedule 03 February 2026
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On March 28th, the fourteenth Bieg na Szczyt is to be held at the Rondo 1 office building in Warsaw. Tower runners will have 38 floors to conquer, while all proceeds raised from the event will go to supporting the SOS Children's Village in Kraśnik.

Events

World MIPIM finalists announced

schedule 03 February 2026
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The 40 finalists of the MIPIM 2026 Awards, representing countries across the globe, from Denmark to Oman to Australia, have been selected for the final ceremony in Cannes.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland high demand across the regions

schedule 03 February 2026
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2025 was a year of stark contrasts. Overall demand shot past 772,000 sqm – the strongest result on record, according to JLL in its summary of what happened in Q4 2025 across Poland’s regional office markets.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Wrocław sees record year

schedule 03 February 2026
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Wrocław's office market saw its highest ever tenant activity in 2025, reaching a leasing volume of nearly 180,000 sqm, according to the latest report from Savills. Despite unprecedented demand, the city is grappling with a high vacancy rate and a near-complete halt in new supply.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland bnm takes on prosta tower

schedule 03 February 2026
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AEW Invest has hired BNM – Real Estate Advisory to commercialise the Prosta Tower building at ul. Prosta 32 ​​in Warsaw.

Investment & finance

Poland Alior to sell office property

schedule 03 February 2026
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Alior Bank has announced that it is to sell its right of perpetual usufruct to ul. Towarowa 25A next to Rondo Daszyńskiego.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland More shooting in Czeladź

schedule 03 February 2026
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A modern logistics centre and shooting range is to be developed in Czeladź. SKB LDR has begun construction work on the centre for Kolba, a supplier of hunting, shooting, and military equipment.

Warehouse & industrial

Germany MBS stays on in Regensburg

schedule 03 February 2026
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Logistics operator MBS Logistik has extended its lease with Garbe Industrial for around 7,000 sqm of space in the Port of Regensburg. The warehouse is used for the storage, picking, and shipping of goods for industrial and commercial clients.

Retail & leisure

Poland Another retail park from PKB Inwest Budowa

schedule 02 February 2026
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PKB Inwest Budowa has obtained a final construction permit for a retail park on ul. Chrzanowskiego in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.

Public buildings

Poland Oleśnica railway station restored

schedule 02 February 2026
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The reconstruction of the historic Oleśnica railway station, dating back to 1868, is nearing completion.  A dedicated passenger area has been created, and the ticket office has been relocated.

Retail & leisure

Poland iLunch comes to Poland

schedule 02 February 2026
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Lithuanian chain iLunch has opened its first Polish restaurant in the Olivia Centre in Gdańsk. iLunch is a concept with fully automated ordering of the dishes, which are prepared on-site and delivered in less than two minutes.

Residential

Poland Work begins on Liberty Tower

schedule 02 February 2026
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Construction of the Liberty Tower apartment building has begun in the centre of Warsaw, at ul. Grzybowska 54. The building will have 43 storeys and a height of 140m with 587 units ranging in size from 26 to 124 sqm.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Studio A comes to market

schedule 02 February 2026
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The second and final stage of the Studio project, the Studio A office building has received its occupancy permit and over 20,000 sqm has already been leased.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Mindspace to be largest tenant of Skyliner complex

schedule 02 February 2026
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Flexible office space provider Mindspace has signed a long-term lease with Karimpol Polska for nearly 4,500 sqm in the second building of the Skyliner complex on Rondo Daszyńskiego.

Residential

Poland New life for Moniuszki 8

schedule 02 February 2026
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LivUp, a company operating in the Polish PRS market, has begun renovations to the building at ul. Moniuszki 8 in Warsaw, converting the building that once housed the Café Adria dancehall and restaurant into rental apartments.

Investment & finance

Hungary CA Immo sells Millennium 1

schedule 02 February 2026
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CA Immo has sold the Millennium Tower I office building in Budapest's Central Pest district.

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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