Hotels
Convivio Hotels has completed the EUR 573 mln acquisition of eight of the five-star hotels in the pan-European Dedica Anthology portfolio from Värde Partners.
Property and Facility Management
CPI Property Group has taken over the management of Concept Tower in central Warsaw, following its recent acquisition of the property.
Warehouse & industrial
Hurtownia Opakowań has increased the warehouse space it leases in Hillwood Marki to 4,500 sqm.
Investment & finance
Czech investment group Portiva and Micronix have bought the Central Kladno shopping centre in Brno from Crestyl for CZK 2 bln (app. EUR 74.8 mln).
Investment & finance
Prague-based Vesa Equity Investment has announced the acquisition of a 3.05 pct share in British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s, becoming its fourth largest shareholder.
Investment & finance
A fund managed by US investor Madison International Realty has bought a 65 pct stake in the newly completed Chmielna 89 office project in central Warsaw from Cavatina Holding.
Office & mixed-use development
Echo Investment has put into use the first stage of the West 4 Business Hub office complex in Wrocław.
Warehouse & industrial
Construction work has begun on Panattoni Park Bydgoszcz III, the first tenant of which is to be electronic equipment servicing company Reconext.
Events
The 15th Annual Eurobuild CEE Tennis Tournament endedin the best possible fashionfor Monika Żywiecka of Oakbridge Capital Advisors, with her victory in the women’s singles final.
Warehouse & industrial
The topping out ceremony has taken place for a 15,000 sqm BTS facility being developed by Panattoni for Phoenix Contact E-Mobility in Rzeszów.
Green projects
Polish company Scallier, which is developing the Funshop Park chain of retail parks in Romania, has opted to obtain BREEAM certification for all its new parks.
Investment & finance
Düsseldorf-based retail park developer Trei Real Estate has been granted an unsecured EUR 42 mln loan from German bank Helaba.
Events
Last year when he played for the first time at the Eurobuild tennis tournament he caused something of a sensation when he beat all his rivals. Even then, Krzysztof Stempień of Cresa fearlessly faced a strong field, many of whom were regular faces at the tournament, to turn the ranking table on its head.
Warehouse & industrial
Accolade has revealed that it is investing EUR 21.3 mln in Panattoni Park Szczecin Airport in Goleniów on the outskirts of the city
Office & mixed-use development
The Art Box Experience, the first fully interactive and digital art gallery in Poland, is to open in Norblin Factory in Warsaw.
Warehouse & industrial
DL Invest Group and DHL Supply Chain Polska are to jointly develop the DL Invest Park Psary logistics centre in Psary in Silesia.
Events
Two Polish developments are among the twelve winners at the MIPIM Awards 2020, which were presented in Paris on September 15th.
Office & mixed-use development
HB Reavis has topped off the lower building of its Forest development in Warsaw.
Office & mixed-use development
AFI Europe Romania has announced that it has leased 55 pct of AFI Park Brașov to Siemens and NTT Data Services.
Warehouse & industrial
A joint venture between Maersk and IB Cargo has leased 75,000 sqm in CTPark Bucharest West, which is to be used as a distribution centre for Ikea Supply AG.
POLAND Wildberries, the Russian online retailer that debuted on the Polish market in January, has revealed some of its initial Polish sales figures.
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.
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.
WORLD Online second had clothes store Thredup store has created a Fashion Footprint Calculator to calculate the carbon footprint of your purchasing habits.
POLAND DHL Parcel will this year have opened 1,000 new locations for despatching and collecting courier parcels.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
POLAND Lidl is to launch an online store for Poland – lidl-sklep.pl.
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.
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.
POLAND A Wrocław start-up has created a chatbot to sell and recommend goods to shoppers.
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.
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.
WORLD Marks & Spencer has partnered with True, which operates in the new-tech segment, to focuses on innovation and digital transformation.
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.
POLAND CCC and DeeZee signed a contract to enter operational and financial cooperation. Both parties assume numerous positive effects of the cooperation – DeeZee is looking forward to the support of CCC’s financial strength and scale, while CCC group is to enrich its offer for young ladies customer group.
POLAND The KiK discount chain expands its stores and introduces arrangement changes.
To the delight of some and in spite of all the doomsayers, you now have a copy of the September issue of Eurobuild in your hands – confirming that reports of our death have been gr ...
FeatureTo gauge the real impact of Covid-19 on Polish real estate, we spoke to a number of market players and analysts about how it was possible to get through the worst of the lockdown, ...
LegalThe pandemic may have prompted a slowdown in transactions for office and retail projects and brought hotel transactions to a virtual halt, but logistics and industrial remain dynam ...
Finnish studio ALA Architects has won the competition to design an extension to the Estonian Business School in Tallinn’s central Maakri district.
The Polish Military Aviation Works (WZL1) in partnership with Lockheed Martin has begun construction work on a 3,000 sqm production plant in Dęblin in ...
Almost three quarters of employers plan to reintroduce their employees to their workplaces in phases rather than all at once, according to CBRE in its ...
POLAND The sixth Torus Triathlon In Da House (TTIDH) took place in the Alchemia office complex in Gdańsk at the end of February.
POLAND Wildberries, the Russian online retailer that debuted on the Polish market in January, has revealed some of its initial Polish sales figures.
The aim of the Eurobuild Awards is to promote the key players of the real estate sector by recognising their achievements. Our long-term goal is also ...
Due to the fact we are currently moving our premises, which involves the relocation of our mail server, Eurobuild cannot be contacted via our usual e- ...
The 15th Annual Eurobuild CEE Tennis Tournament endedin the best possible fashionfor Monika Żywiecka of Oakbridge Capital Advisors, with her victory i ...
Polish company Scallier, which is developing the Funshop Park chain of retail parks in Romania, has opted to obtain BREEAM certification for all its n ...
Convivio Hotels has completed the EUR 573 mln acquisition of eight of the five-star hotels in the pan-European Dedica Anthology portfolio from Värde P ...
POLAND Reina Partners is the latest advisory to emerge on the Polish commercial real estate market.
Four applications have been made by companies to take on the project of renovating the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in central Budapest.
Cushman & Wakefield has completed the move of its Warsaw offices to The Warsaw Hub, which has just come into use.
Czech investment group Portiva and Micronix have bought the Central Kladno shopping centre in Brno from Crestyl for CZK 2 bln (app. EUR 74.8 mln).
Echo Investment has put into use the first stage of the West 4 Business Hub office complex in Wrocław.
POLAND Local Heroes has opened its first fashion store of 81 sqm at ul. Mokotowska 49 in the Mokotowska Square building in Warsaw.
CPI Property Group has taken over the management of Concept Tower in central Warsaw, following its recent acquisition of the property.
Riga-based fund manager Eften Capital is to enter the residential rental market by establishing a new fund to invest in rental apartment buildings in ...
Cordia has acquired UK residential developer Blackswan Property in its first investment in the UK market.
Retail parks have been the biggest beneficiaries of the structural changes to the Polish retail market over the last decade and will continue to take ...
Cushman & Wakefield has identified Berlin, Reykjavik, Oslo, Warsaw, Zurich, Milan, Vienna, Madrid and Prague as emerging European hotspots for data ce ...
Hurtownia Opakowań has increased the warehouse space it leases in Hillwood Marki to 4,500 sqm.
