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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Investment & finance

Poland Fortress buys from Panattoni

schedule 21 February 2025
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Fortress Real Estate Investments has acquired Panattoni Park Tricity East V. The complex includes a completed warehouse covering 50,000 sqm.

Investment & finance

Poland Henderson Park & EPP secure EUR 148.6 mln refinancing

schedule 20 February 2025
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Henderson Park, the international private equity real estate firm, and EPP, the asset manager of office properties, have successfully secured a EUR 148.6 mln loan from Berlin Hyp AG and PKO Bank Polski to refinance a Polish office portfolio.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland GLP attracts magnets

schedule 20 February 2025
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The final building at GLP Kraków Airport Logistics Centre has been completed. The developer delivered a 9,500 sqm warehouse for SMA Magnetics.

Warehouse & industrial

Germany Garbe leases to vehicle manufacturer in Ludwigsfelde

schedule 20 February 2025
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Garbe has signed a long-term lease with a well-known German vehicle manufacturer. The new tenant will occupy a total area of 12,400 sqm in the logistics property which is currently under construction near Berlin. 

Investment & finance

Poland Millions by the sea

schedule 19 February 2025
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Panattoni has secured EUR 17.3 mln in financing from Santander for Panattoni Park Gdańsk City Airport. The project consists of two speculative distribution facilities.

Investment & finance

Poland IHG invests in urban micro-hotels

schedule 19 February 2025
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IHG Hotels & Resorts acquires the Ruby hotel brand for an initial purchase price of EUR 110.5 mln, or approx. USD 115 mln. Ruby is the 20th brand in the IHG portfolio.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Tenants expect sustainable solutions

schedule 19 February 2025
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In the last quarter of 2024, Warsaw’s office market continued to experience stable occupier demand amid constrained new supply, reveals “At a Glance: Warsaw Office Market, Q4 2024”, a report from BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Volkswagen is loyal to Segro

schedule 19 February 2025
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Segro has extended its lease agreement with Volkswagen Group Polska for over 32,000 sqm at Segro Logistics Park Poznań, Komorniki.

Investment & finance

Poland Office sale in Szczecin

schedule 18 February 2025
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Blackstone has sold the Szczecin office building Piastów Office Center. The buyer is a joint venture of Bud Holdings and Investika Real Estate Fund.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Cornerstone stays in High5ive

schedule 18 February 2025
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Cornerstone OnDemand has decided to remain in Cracow’s High5ive complex. The company has extended the lease for over 1,500 sqm of space.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Pegasystems stays at B4B for longer

schedule 18 February 2025
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Pegasystems has extended its lease agreement at the Bonarka for Business office complex. The software development company leases a total of almost 4,000 sqm of office space in Building C and has been present in the complex since 2011.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Developers exercise caution in new investments 

schedule 18 February 2025
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According to the Axi Immo report ‘Office Market in Regional Cities’, which summarises the situation in the eight largest regional office markets in Poland, despite challenges in gross demand, stabilisation is still being observed. Decisions to start new investments are being made with great caution, and office building owners are focusing on improving the standard of the properties.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Clyde & Co chooses The Form

schedule 18 February 2025
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In May, the new headquarters of the global law firm Clyde & Co will open in The Form office building. The company's Warsaw office will occupy 1,100 sqm.

Investment & finance

Slovakia CPI Europe sells property portfolio in Bratislava

schedule 18 February 2025
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CPI Europe Group has agreed to sell an office and retail complex in the Slovak capital to Wood & Company, thus taking another step in its strategic portfolio optimisation.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Hillwood grows in Tri-City

schedule 17 February 2025
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Hillwood has expanded its Polish portfolio with a logistics park spanning nearly 43,000 sqm in the eastern part of Gdańsk.

Warehouse & industrial

Czech Republic Low completions, rising vacancy

schedule 17 February 2025
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According to the quarterly survey conducted by Colliers, the Q4 of 2024 did not bring any significant change to the Czech industrial and logistics real estate market.

Warehouse & industrial

Czech Republic CTP sparks development for Hitachi

schedule 17 February 2025
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CTP has launched a development project for Hitachi Energy at CTPark Brno. Phase I of the high-voltage products factory will involve the construction of a 50,000 sqm facility.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Delta expands in Silesia

schedule 14 February 2025
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Delta Trans Group has decided to expand its leased space at the Hillwood Ruda Śląska complex by an approx. 9,300 sqm. The logistics operator will now use a total of 27,000 sqm.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Coworking with a view

schedule 14 February 2025
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AND2, the tallest building in Poznań, is gaining a new tenant. BeIN Offices will offer coworking space located on two storeys, with a view of the city skyline.

Retail & leisure

Poland At the height of luxury

schedule 13 February 2025
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According to the latest report “At a Glance: Modern Retail Market in Poland, Q4 2024” from BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland, Poland’s retail market experienced record growth in 2024, expanding at its fastest pace since 2015.

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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