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
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Office & mixed-use development

Poland No space left in Warsaw

schedule 21 January 2026
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According to JLL , searching for an office in Warsaw in the current market is no easy task. Companies looking to lease over 1,000 sqm have a rather limited selection.

Investment & finance

Poland A year of stability

schedule 21 January 2026
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The Polish commercial property market has begun to stabilise. Although total transaction volume fell by 12.9 pct year-on-year, the sector’s fundamentals have noticeably strengthened, according to Savills.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni Park Szczecin V grows

schedule 21 January 2026
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Panattoni is developing nearly 14,000 sqm in the second stage of Panattoni Park Szczecin V. The developer has signed a lease agreement for nearly 4,300 sqm with an international logistics firm.

Interior design

Poland New look for Eurocentrum lobby

schedule 21 January 2026
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CPI Property Group has completed the modernisation of the lobby of the Eurocentrum-Alfa building, part of Warsaw's Eurocentrum Office Complex on Al. Jerozolimskie.

Warehouse & industrial

Czech Republic More drugs in CTPark Bor

schedule 21 January 2026
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Dm-Pharmahandel is opening a specialised logistics centre for the distribution of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals at CTPark Bor, strengthening cross-border supply chains between the Czech Republic and Germany.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Nordspace business park fully leased

schedule 21 January 2026
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The Nordspace business park in Jawczyce near Warsaw is now fully leased. All of the SBU units have tenants with over half of the space leased before the project's official opening.

Residential

Poland Student Depot expands in Gdańsk

schedule 21 January 2026
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Pexabex is to build a new student residence hall in Gdańsk for the Student Depot chain. The eight-storey building will be constructed from prefabricated sections and will provide accommodation for over 500 people.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Miennica Towers fully leased

schedule 21 January 2026
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The Mennica Towers office complex in Warsaw is now fully leased. Colliers brokered the lease of the last available 4,000 sqm.

Investment & finance

Romania Local investors dominate in Romania

schedule 20 January 2026
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In 2025, the total investment volume in commercial properties in Romania reached EUR 579.4 mln, according to a study conducted by Fortim Trusted Advisors, an alliance member of the BNP Paribas Real Estate.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni Park Warsaw West IV completed

schedule 20 January 2026
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Harden Construction has completed the construction of Panattoni Park Warsaw West IV in Kaźmierowo near Sochaczew. Glass manufacturer Pilkington Automotive Poland is the first tenant.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Théa enters Lixa

schedule 20 January 2026
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Laboratoires Théa, a company from the ophthalmology industry, has leased 1,000 sqm on the first floor of the Lixa C office building in Warsaw. The building is owned by Yareal Polska.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Little space to find in Warsaw

schedule 20 January 2026
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The Warsaw office market is entering a phase of significant space shortage, particularly in central locations. By the end of 2025, the vacancy rate had fallen to 9.1 pct, and in the city centre, only about 5-6 pct of space remains available, according to the latest data from CBRE.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland FWIP signs up with MLP

schedule 20 January 2026
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FWIP has leased 1,400 sqm in the MLP Business Park Poznań complex. The lease comprises 1,000 sqm of warehouse space, a 200 sqm showroom, and an additional 200 sqm of office space.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Dräger Polska takes more space in Silesia Star

schedule 20 January 2026
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Dräger Polska has leased more space in the Silesia Star complex in Katowice, more than doubling its current area. 

Warehouse & industrial

Poland SFD to move into Opole

schedule 19 January 2026
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Redkom Development will build a warehouse for nutritional supplements, dietary food supplier SFD. The general contractor for the project is Pekabex.

Retail & leisure

Poland Leroy Merlin to open in Projekt Góraszka development

schedule 19 January 2026
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Leroy Merlin has acquired a site in Góraszka with the transaction organised by Nhood Services Poland on behalf of Ceetrus Polska. A DIY store will be built on the 55,000 sqm site.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Knight Frank to take on the Amber Trail

schedule 19 January 2026
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Real estate advisory Knight Frank is to lease out the office space in the Bursztynowy Szlak building in Kraków owned by Archicenter.

Interior design

Poland New look for Otis offices

schedule 19 January 2026
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Tétris Poland, an interior design company owned by JLL, has completed the design and development of the Otis Polska offices.

Retail & leisure

Poland Good year for retail

schedule 19 January 2026
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Last year the retail real estate market was booming, according to the latest figures from Cushman & Wakefield.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Strategy stays in Skyliner

schedule 19 January 2026
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Strategy has extended its 1,500 sqm office space lease in Warsaw's Skyliner building. The company resides on the 22nd floor.

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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