E-commerce set to accelerate with Coronavirus

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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.
Vistula Retail Group expects online sales to represent 24 pct of revenue for the first quarter compared to 15.5 pct last year. CCC Group expects 45 pct of revenue to be online in March, while for 2019 the figure was only 25 pct. The consultancy also points out that many of the major Chinese internet firms gained their footing during the SARS health crisis of 2002/2003. In the USA Amazon is hiring 100,000 new employees and raising wages by USD 2 per hour. In Poland Cushman & Wakefield suggest tha
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Retail & leisure

Poland Jysk comes to Janki

schedule 07 April 2026
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Jysk will open a 1,700 sqm DIY store at HomePark Janki near Warsaw on April 11th.

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Investment & finance

Poland CEE investment volume hits record high

schedule 07 April 2026
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According to the latest data from Cushman & Wakefield, the total value of investment transactions in Central and Eastern Europe in 2025 reached approximately EUR 11.8 bln, representing a 34 pct year-on-year increase and the highest annual figure since 2019.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Bonprix enters Nowa Fabryczna

schedule 07 April 2026
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E-commerce fashion brand Bonprix, a fashion brand has opened an office on the 5th floor of the Nowa Fabryczna office building in Łódź. The company occupies nearly 2,400 sqm.

Residential

Poland Wynalazek Quarter project proposed

schedule 07 April 2026
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The Octava Property Trust and the WWAA architectural studio are proposing to transform a 2 ha plot at the intersection of ul. Marynarksa and ul. Wynalazek  under the Special Housing Act.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Mokotów Nova reimagined

schedule 07 April 2026
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The modernisation of the Mokotów Nova office complex at ul. Wołoska 22 in Warsaw has been completed. The work primarily covered the ground floor of the buildings and the development of the outdoor areas.

Retail & leisure

Poland Gorąco Polecam opens in Designer Outlet Warsaw

schedule 07 April 2026
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A Gorąco Polecam Smaki z Piekarni bakery has opened in Designer Outlet Warsaw. The 80-sqm location is in the centre of the building, near the Ecco and Calvin Klein stores.

Office & mixed-use development

Czech Republic Prague sees massive flex office expansion

schedule 07 April 2026
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Prague ranks among the European cities with the highest projected growth in flexible office space. This is primarily due to the long-standing shortage of new office buildings available for lease on the open market and to growing corporate demand for comprehensive services. Flexible offices are thus gradually shifting from being a market add-on (or nice to have) to becoming its driving force.

Investment & finance

Poland Develia buys imperial shipyards

schedule 07 April 2026
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Polish residential developer Develia has signed a preliminary agreement to buy the Stocznia Cesarska development from Belgian developers Alides and Revive. Alides and Revive acquired the 16-hectare site in 2017.

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Poland Happy Easter!

schedule 02 April 2026
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On the occasion of Easter, we extend our warmest wishes to all our Readers for peace, good health, and the joy that comes from spending time with loved ones.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Wojdyła becomes BASE³

schedule 02 April 2026
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Wojdyła Business Park office centre on ul. Muchoborska in Wrocław has been rebranded as BASE³ – Home of Business. Following its sale to new owners, Propwave Advisory has also been appointed as the leasing agent to recommercialise the centre.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Poland turns to quality

schedule 02 April 2026
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In the Polish warehouse market, developers and investors are focusing on top-quality warehouse space, and land banks are being gradually released, according to CBRE's '2026 Poland Real Estate Market Outlook' report.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Three extensions for Fiege

schedule 02 April 2026
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Logistics operator FIege has signed three lease agreements for more space at three locations: Panattoni Park Goleniów I, Panattoni Park Zielona Góra I, and Panattoni Park Gorzów I. The total additional space leased comes to nearly 21,000 sqm.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Vastint to build new quarter in central Wrocław

schedule 02 April 2026
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Vastint plans to transform a 1.7 ha site at ul. Powstańców Śląskich 2-4 in Wrocław into a mixed-use development. The TREE Group has been appointed to demolish the former Arkady Wrocławskie shopping centre on the site, to be completed by mid-2027. APA Wojciechowski Architekci studio has been commissioned to design the new project.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Bel Pol enters Panattoni Park Warsaw North III

schedule 01 April 2026
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Flooring and doors retailer Bel-Pol has signed a lease for 5,600 sqm in Panattoni Park Warsaw North III.

Human resources

Europe Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle

schedule 01 April 2026
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Marek Noetzel has been appointed CEO of NEPI Rockcastle and announced a new management team, based entirely on internal promotions.

Infrastructure

Poland Budimex to build for CPK

schedule 01 April 2026
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Budimex has won the tender to construct the deep foundations for the CPK passenger terminal as part of the Port Polska project. Six constructors entered the tender, but Budimex submitted the lowest bid of PLN 146 million gross.

Retail & leisure

Poland New food court for Plejada

schedule 01 April 2026
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A new food court has opened at the Plejada Shopping Centre in Sosnowiec, designed as a comfortable space with around 270 with dining tables and high bar tables.

Residential

Poland PRS growing rapidly

schedule 01 April 2026
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PRS in Poland is expanding rapidly. In 2025, 5,821 units were introduced to the market, a record number, according to CBRE's '2026 Poland Real Estate Market Outlook' report. This year looks set to be a similar number.

Retail & leisure

Poland Polish retail still booming

schedule 01 April 2026
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Over the next three years, retail sales in Poland will grow at nearly 3 pct annually. The supply of retail space is growing, especially in retail parks in small towns, attracting interest from both developers and investment funds, according to the "Retail Insights" report prepared by JLL.

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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