Logistics firms feeling the heat from e-commerce

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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.
Almost 900 global logistics and supply chain providers, including those that are active in the e-commerce sector, were surveyed for the report. Out of these, almost 70 pct of B2C companies and 60 pct of B2B companies are still working on the introduction of strategies for this market segment. This is despite the fact that 70 pct of respondents regard e-commerce as ‘very important’ or ‘extremely important’ for their business. “Customer expectations are evolving and changing, putting pr
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Technology

Poland CBRE moves into defence

schedule 06 November 2026
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CBRE is expanding its advisory services for the defence and dual-use technology sectors in Poland. Jan Banasikowski, who has been with the company for 10 years, has been appointed Defence & Dual Use Lead.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Krakowski Bank Spółdzielczy takes serviced space at DL Space Atrium

schedule 06 November 2026
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Krakowski Bank Spółdzielczy has leased serviced space at DL Space Atrium, part of DL Invest Group’s mixed-use complex at 138 Korfantego Avenue in Katowice. The premises will house a customer service branch, complemented by a 24-hour ATM.

Retail & leisure

Poland ShockPrice opens first store in Łódź region in Focus Mall

schedule 06 November 2026
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Focus Mall in Piotrków Trybunalski is expanding its retail offer. On 5th November, ShockPrice opened its first off-price store in the Łódź region at the shopping centre. Teletorium has also joined the tenant mix, while Tatuum and YES are investing in larger, refurbished stores.

Residential

Poland Torus launches sales at 143-unit Mozaika project in Gdańsk

schedule 06 November 2026
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Grupa Torus has launched apartment sales at its Mozaika development on Droszyńskiego Street, between Gdańsk’s Oliwa and Przymorze Małe districts. The first phase will comprise three five-storey buildings with 143 apartments averaging approximately 70 sqm.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Logicor starts construction of sixth warehouse at Mysłowice park

schedule 06 November 2026
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Logicor has started construction of a sixth building at its logistics park in Mysłowice, southern Poland. The new 21,860 sqm facility will bring the complex’s total area to more than 165,000 sqm across six buildings.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Warehouse market reaches 38.3 mln sqm as vacancy falls to 5.7 pct

schedule 06 November 2026
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Poland’s modern warehouse and industrial stock reached 38.3 mln sqm at the end of September 2026, according to the Polish Chamber of Commercial Real Estate (PINK). Gross take-up totalled 1.79 mln sqm in the third quarter, while the vacancy rate fell to 5.7 pct, down from 6.6 pct in the previous quarter.

Investment & finance

Croatia Erste Bank provides EUR 126 mln refinancing for two Zagreb shopping centres

schedule 06 November 2026
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Manta d.o.o., owner of the City Center One East and City Center One West shopping centres in Zagreb, has signed a loan agreement worth EUR 126 mln with Erste Bank. The financing will primarily be used to refinance existing debt, optimise the capital structure of both assets and extend debt maturities.

Technology

Czech Republic Drone Deliveries could reach shoppers in 15 minutes 

schedule 06 November 2026
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Drone deliveries of groceries, restaurant meals and over-the-counter medicines within 15 minutes could become part of everyday life in the Czech Republic. Retailers are beginning to explore the potential of the technology, with existing shopping centres, supermarkets and retail parks emerging as possible launch bases.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland DACHSER and GFL lease 9,400 sqm at Jet Industrial Park Gdańsk

schedule 05 November 2026
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Jet Investment has signed two lease agreements at its Jet Industrial Park Gdańsk development, with logistics operators DACHSER and GFL taking a combined nearly 9,400 sqm of warehouse and office space in Building B.

Residential

Czech Republic Skanska launches second phase of Habitat residential project in Prague

schedule 05 November 2026
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Skanska Residential has started construction of the second phase of its Habitat residential development in Prague’s Malešice district. The project will deliver 188 apartments and nine commercial units, with completion scheduled for 2029. The project is valued at CZK 1.5 bln.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland CTPark Warsaw Nowy Konik achieves BREEAM Excellent certification for 35,400 sqm

schedule 05 November 2026
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Two buildings at CTPark Warsaw Nowy Konik have achieved BREEAM New Construction v6 certification at Excellent level, covering a combined 35,400 sqm of warehouse and industrial space. The buildings received full marks in the water category and 94% of the available points for management.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni completes PLN 115 mln ZREW factory in Łódź

schedule 05 November 2026
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Panattoni BTS has completed a new factory for ZREW Transformatory in Łódź. The PLN 115 mln build-to-suit project was officially opened on 3 November. The facility will enable ZREW to double its production capacity and create around 200 jobs.

Property and Facility Management

Poland CBRE takes over 11 Dekada retail properties

schedule 05 November 2026
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CBRE has been appointed to manage and lease a portfolio of 11 Dekada retail properties owned by Hungary’s Appeninn Group. The portfolio comprises nearly 53,000 sqm of gla across 11 Polish cities. Indotek Polska has been appointed asset manager.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Logwin extends lease at SEGRO park near Warsaw

schedule 05 November 2026
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Logwin Poland has extended its lease at SEGRO Logistics Park Warsaw, Nadarzyn, where it occupies nearly 9,200 sqm of warehouse space and approximately 680 sqm of office and staff facilities.

Investment & finance

Poland REICO Long Lease acquires 62,500 sqm logistics facility from Prologis

schedule 05 November 2026
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REICO Long Lease has acquired a 62,500 sqm logistics facility in Ujazd, in Poland’s Opole region, from Prologis. The property is fully leased to Schaeffler, which uses it as its Eastern European Regional Distribution and Fulfilment Centre for automotive parts.

Warehouse & industrial

Romania NewCold plans 75,000-pallet automated warehouse in Bucharest

schedule 05 November 2026
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NewCold is preparing to expand its logistics hub in Bucharest, Romania, with plans to launch a fully automated high-bay warehouse offering 75,000 pallet positions in early 2027. The existing facility currently provides 6,400 pallet positions through manual operations.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland GEO plans mixed-use development on former railway land

schedule 30 October 2026
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GEO Group, through its subsidiary Ceglana, is preparing a mixed-use development on nearly 20 hectares of former railway land in Poznań. The project will connect the Wilda and Łazarz districts, with the first phase comprising around 220 homes and nine retail and service units. Preparatory work will be supported by pre-development financing from IBI Investment House Polska.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Regional office demand could reach 700,000 sqm in 2026

schedule 30 October 2026
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Demand for office space across Poland’s eight largest regional markets could reach around 700,000 sqm in 2026, or even exceed that figure, according to Cushman & Wakefield. Tenants leased 511,800 sqm between January and September. Meanwhile, limited new supply and falling availability are gradually strengthening the position of landlords, particularly those with prime office buildings.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Warsaw office demand rises as availability tightens

schedule 30 October 2026
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Warsaw’s office market is seeing stronger occupier demand alongside declining availability, particularly in central locations. Companies leased nearly 592,000 sqm of office space between January and September 2026, up 21.8 pct year on year, while the vacancy rate fell to 7.9 pct. Some occupiers are already securing space in buildings scheduled for completion in 2028, according to Newmark Polska’s report 'Office Occupier – Warsaw Office Market'.

Residential

Polska Restored Pafawag boiler house completes Wrocław residential development

schedule 30 October 2026
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The opening of the restored boiler house at the former Pafawag factory marks the completion of the Nowa Kolejowa development in Wrocław. Designed by B2 Studio, the project has transformed a three-hectare former industrial site into a residential neighbourhood with public spaces, blending the area’s industrial heritage with contemporary architecture.

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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