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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Retail & leisure

Poland Enel Med expands in Kraków

schedule 07 January 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Enel-med is opening a new location in Galeria Kazimierz in Kraków. This will be the chain's fourth medical centre in the city and its 36th in Poland.

Material partner

Antarctica Construction at the edge of the world

schedule 27 November 2025
Opr./edited by JC

The implementation team for the next stage of the construction of the new main building of the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station has reached King George Island – over 14,000 km from Poland.

Investment & finance

Poland Investment market in good shape

schedule 07 January 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Offices, warehouses, and retail parks saw the greatest demand on the Polish investment market in 2025. Investors made significant purchases, but focused on medium-sized and smaller projects as well as property portfolios according to the latest JLL report on the investment market for 2025.

Retail & leisure

Poland Retail Park to arise in Darłowo

schedule 07 January 2026
Opr./edited by AH

A new retail park is to be built in Darłowo in Western Pomerania, with the opening scheduled for mid-2027. Medos is the investor, with Scallier being responsible for the commercialisation.

Office & mixed-use development

Europe No compromise on quality

schedule 07 January 2026
Opr./edited by AH

European office costs continue to rise, but companies are not compromising on their demands for high-quality work environments. On the contrary, they are investing in premium offices that are cleverly designed and technologically advanced. The circular economy, digitalisation and efficient use of space are helping to curb cost growth significantly.

Infrastructure

Poland Intercor builds track

schedule 07 January 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Intercor has completed reconstruction works on the railway line between Lębork and Słupsk. Trains have now returned to service with completely reconstructed station platforms at Pogorzelice and Jezierzyce Słupskie.

Retail & leisure

Poland Agata opens in Karuzela Ełk

schedule 07 January 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Polish furniture and home furnishings manufacturer and distributor Agata has opened a 5,000 sqm store in the Karuzela retail park in Ełk. 

Investment & finance

Poland Adventum acquires eight shopping centres

schedule 07 January 2026
Opr./edited by AH

Auchan Polska and Ceetrus have sold a portfolio of eight shopping centres in Poland to the Adventum Penta Fund from Hungary. 

Infrastructure

Poland CPK to be solar powered

schedule 05 January 2026
Opr./edited by AH

CPK has awarded a contract to Elektrotim for the preparation of the design documentation for a solar energy farm and storage facility to power the new Central Airport Hub airport under construction in Baranów.

Investment & finance

Poland Cornerstone buys Senator

schedule 30 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Cornerstone Investment Management, in partnership with Fidera, has purchased the Senator office building in central Warsaw from Union Investment Real Estate.

Investment & finance

Poland Ferio Wawer sold

schedule 30 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Strabag Real Estate Poland has sold the Ferio Wawer shopping centre in Warsaw to the Era Park Group with the mediation of Savills.

Architecture and urban planning

Poland Public consultations held for Park Wilanów

schedule 30 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The Nhood Services Poland team has completed another round of public consultations for its mixed-use Wilanów Park development. Residents voiced their opinions on the proposed uses, services, and surroundings of Wilanów Park.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Tenants stay in O3

schedule 30 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Five companies have extended leases for space within the O3 Business Campus complex in Kraków. The contracts cover a total of over 7,600 sqm.

Events

World Merry Christmas to one and all

schedule 23 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

May Christmas be a time of peace, reflection, and regeneration after an intense year so full of challenges. May the New Year bring bright prospects, success, and reward for your decisions made!

Investment & finance

Poland Newgate Investment purchases Warsaw retail park

schedule 23 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Newgate Investment has purchased a retail park in Warsaw's Wawer district next to a Kaufland hypermarket.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Panattoni to build near Kraków

schedule 23 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Panattoni has purchased 9 ha in Zakrzów and is to build Panattoni Park Kraków East VI, which will comprise two buildings. The 11,000 sqm centre will include a BTS building for a leading logistics operator, while a further 16,000 sqm is being developed on a speculative basis.

Retail & leisure

Poland Gorąco Polecam opens in Lubin

schedule 22 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The Gorąco Polecam bakery has opened in a new building with a 160 sqm patio within the BIG Lubin retail park. 

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Alior moves offices in Warsaw and Kraków

schedule 22 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Alior Bank has completed the relocation of its offices to new locations in Warsaw and Kraków. The two locations comprise 15,000 sqm and over 1,100 workstations.

Hotels

Poland AC Hotels to open in Port Praski

schedule 22 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The façade of the Minter townhouse, in the Port Praski development in Warsaw, has been unveiled, restoring its Art Nouveau style.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Tenants prepared to stay longer

schedule 22 December 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Tenant activity in the office market is similar to previous years, according to the latest study by CBRE. Leasing strategies are changing and companies must plan their activities further in advance than in previous years.

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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