Logistics firms feeling the heat from e-commerce

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.
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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Warehouse & industrial

Germany Garbe leases Dissen logistics centre to Oval Group

schedule 15 October 2026
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Garbe Industrial has leased its 19,500 sqm logistics centre in Dissen, Lower Saxony, to Oval Group for fresh and chilled goods logistics from February 2027.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland P3 expands Polish logistics portfolio to 2.7 mln sqm

schedule 15 October 2026
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P3 Logistic Parks has taken over the management of a portfolio of logistics properties totalling around 650,000 sqm, bringing its Polish portfolio to 36 parks with a combined area of 2.7 mln sqm. The properties also offer potential for a further 1 mln sqm of development.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Yareal moves into new Warsaw office

schedule 15 October 2026
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Yareal Polska has moved its headquarters to LIXA C in Warsaw. The 750 sqm office was designed by The Design Group.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Tesco chooses Unity Square Two for its Kraków headquarters

schedule 15 October 2026
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Tesco Technology Services Europe (TTSE) has leased more than 3,700 sqm of office space at Unity Square Two in Kraków, where it will occupy five floors. The move supports the company’s continued growth in Poland and strengthens Kraków’s position as a technology hub.

Residential

Poland Nowa Tkalnia to open up Łódź’s industrial past

schedule 15 October 2026
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Linesa Investments is redeveloping the former Uniontex textile factory site in Łódź’s Księży Młyn district, creating new homes, retail and service units, public spaces and pedestrian routes.

Residential

Czech Republic Skanska launches sales of 151 apartments in Prague

schedule 15 October 2026
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Skanska has launched sales for the fourth stage of Modřanský cukrovar, its residential development on the Vltava river in Prague. The new stage will comprise 151 energy-efficient apartments and eight retail units. Construction is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2027, with completion expected in early 2029.

Residential

Polska Housing costs shape students’ choice of university

schedule 15 October 2026
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Affordable accommodation plays a role in where students choose to study. According to CBRE’s report 'Private Student Housing in Poland 2026: Price Is the Deciding Factor', 58.8 pct of students say access to affordable housing influenced their choice of university or a decision to change institutions. Meanwhile, 68.3 pct believe Poland’s student accommodation provision needs to improve, and 40.2 pct see a significant shortfall in supply.

Residential

Poland Numa to launch in Poland with Warsaw apartment deal

schedule 15 October 2026
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AYA Properties Fund and Curtis Group have signed a 20-year lease with Numa for 56 serviced apartments at ul. Chmielna 13A in central Warsaw. The opening is planned for the first half of 2027 and will mark Numa’s entry into Poland.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni Park Bytom fully leased ahead of completion

schedule 14 October 2026
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Panattoni Park Bytom has been fully leased before construction is complete, with packaging supplier Grembox taking more than 33,000 sqm at the development. The complex will offer more than 132,000 sqm in total, and Grembox plans to begin operations at the new location in November 2027.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland LemonTree starts work on 30,000 sqm Stream Kraków development

schedule 14 October 2026
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LemonTree has started construction of Stream Kraków by LemonTree, a warehouse and office development of nearly 30,000 sqm near Kraków Airport and the A4 motorway. The project is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2027. Goldbeck has been appointed as the general contractor.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland MSX Elektronika leases space at MLP Pruszków I

schedule 14 October 2026
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MSX Elektronika has leased more than 1,300 sqm of warehouse and office space at MLP Pruszków I. The contract electronics manufacturer will use the premises for device assembly and related production and logistics operations. Handover is scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. Maxon Nieruchomości represented the tenant.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland E-commerce platform leases 88,000 sqm in two Logicor parks

schedule 14 October 2026
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A global e-commerce platform has leased a total of 88,000 sqm of warehouse space at two Logicor logistics parks in central Poland. The agreements cover 68,000 sqm at Logicor Stryków and 20,000 sqm at Logicor Łódź I. Announced on 13 October 2026, the transaction strengthens the tenant’s logistics infrastructure in one of the country’s key distribution regions.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Capgemini doubles office space at Business Garden Warsaw

schedule 14 October 2026
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Capgemini will double its office space at Business Garden Warsaw, taking a total of 3,400 sqm at Vastint’s office campus on Żwirki i Wigury Street. The expansion adds 1,700 sqm and reflects the growth of the company’s Warsaw team and changing employee needs.

Retail & leisure

Poland BIG Konstantynów to open expanded retail park on 29 October

schedule 14 October 2026
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BIG Konstantynów will open a new section of its retail park on 29 October 2026, adding around 13,500 sqm of retail space. Following the expansion, the complex will offer around 21,000 sqm in total, including the existing Kaufland and Bricomarché stores. The entire development is fully leased.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Cross-dock warehouses cater to specialised logistics needs

schedule 14 October 2026
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Cross-dock warehouses are designed to transfer goods rapidly between inbound and outbound transport, with minimal storage time. Unlike traditional warehouses, their key performance measure is throughput rather than storage capacity, reflecting their ability to handle large numbers of vehicles and significant volumes of goods, according to Axi Immo.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Warsaw office vacancy rate falls to 7.9 pct

schedule 14 October 2026
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At the end of Q3 2026, the vacancy rate in Warsaw’s office market stood at 7.9 pct, while total modern office stock reached approximately 6.23 million sqm. No new office buildings were completed during the quarter, and take-up exceeded 175,000 sqm, according to the latest data from the Polish Chamber of Commercial Real Estate (PINK).

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Syrena Real Estate to modernise Warsaw office building

schedule 13 October 2026
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Syrena Real Estate will refurbish its building at 18 Piękna Street in Warsaw and rebrand it as Elma. The project will modernise the offices, nearly double the retail space and replace the lower floors with a more open, glazed frontage. Work is due to start in Q1 2027 and finish in Q3 2028.

Residential

Poland Poland’s housing market stabilises

schedule 13 October 2026
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Residential developers sold 12,500 homes across Poland’s seven largest housing markets in the third quarter of 2026, up 5.7 pct from the previous quarter. They launched 12,800 new units, while the number of homes available for sale reached 70,200 at the end of September. According to real estate consultancy JLL, sales and new supply are broadly balanced, but the growing stock of completed unsold homes and shifting buyer sentiment point to a more uncertain outlook.

Construction

Poland BERGER Bau to Modernise Wrocław Student Residences

schedule 13 October 2026
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BERGER Bau Polska will modernise the Kredka and Ołówek student residences owned by the University of Wrocław under a contract worth PLN 41.44 mln gross. Work will bring the buildings into compliance with current fire safety regulations and is scheduled to run from October 2026 to April 2029.

Investment & finance

Poland Poland’s Retail Park Market Drives Growth in Portfolio Transactions

schedule 13 October 2026
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Poland’s increasingly mature retail park market is creating opportunities for portfolio transactions, allowing investors to expand their presence more quickly and allocate capital more efficiently. However, as highlighted in Retail Parks Uncovered, an investment report prepared by Avison Young in cooperation with CMS, Newgate Investment and PROH, these deals require careful legal due diligence, transaction structuring and risk management.

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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