UKRAINE Wildberries now growing in Ukraine
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Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.
Infrastructure
Beyond.pl, a data centre, cloud, and managed services provider and owner of data centres in Poland, is expanding its colocation project for AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing solutions launched in January this year. The company announced that it is working to increase the target capacity of its campus in Poznań by almost 2 times.
Public buildings
The most famous palm tree in Poland will be owned by the Museum of Modern Art. One of Warsaw's best-loved art installations will soon undergo a major overhaul.
Warehouse & industrial
According to the 2024 Savills Nearshoring Index study, the Czech Republic is the second most attractive location for industrial occupiers looking to ‘nearshore’ supply chains. Portugal ranks first, Poland in third place, Sweden being fourth, and Japan rounding out the top five.
Residential
Preparations are underway for the expansion of the Port Praski project. A housing estate and an attractive public space are planned along the quays of the former Warsaw port. The project will be evaluated by local residents as part of a dialogue about the investment.
Office & mixed-use development
According to data from the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox, the net office take-up in Bucharest across Q2 exceeded the renewal and renegociation transactional volume for the first time during the last two years, with a positive impact on the average vacancy rate, given that no new office projects were delivered in H1.
Warehouse & industrial
VGP in Hungary has handed over its new premises to Linde + Wieman. The German automotive parts manufacturer occupies 16,000 sqm at VGP Park Kecskemét, in the central part of the country.
Retail & leisure
One United Properties is carrying out restoration works on the former Ford Hall in Bucharest, which will be modernized into a mixed-use space. In addition to offices and a food market concept, One Gallery will feature a museum area, as well as a multifunctional hall.
Investment & finance
Garbe, in a joint venture with a fund managed by BlackRock, has acquired a brownfield site of almost 200,000 sqm in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony. The joint venture wants to create large-scale logistics on the site. The construction of the property with a total floor area of 70,000 sqm is scheduled to start in Q1 2025 and to be completed in 2026.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has purchased a land plot where it is to build Panattoni Park Kraków East V. The construction work for a 30,000 sqm hall is scheduled to launch in October 2024.
Office & mixed-use development
Vibe, Ghelamco's latest project in Warsaw's business centre, is already fully leased. Companies that have already started working in the office building include Reckitt, an international consumer goods company, and MDDP Outsourcing.
Retail & leisure
San Park Piaseczno, a retail park developed by Ed San III Sancak, has been officially opened. The complex offers a total of more than 40 shops and service outlets.
ESG
The Imagine office complex in Łódź has received the global WiredScore certification, which is awarded to buildings that are technologically advanced in digital connectivity, telecommunications quality, and contingency planning.
Warehouse & industrial
MLP Group has signed a long-term lease agreement with a Chinese manufacturer of automotive parts, which, as part of its global nearshoring strategy, will lease 23,000 sqm of warehouse and office space at the MLP Poznań West logistics centre.
Investment & finance
KGAL has acquired the ViE office building in the Austrian capital with a total rental area of 14,100 sqm for one of its property funds. The seller is CA Immobilien Anlagen AG. The building in a central location in Vienna is fully let.
Office & mixed-use development
Liberty, a mixed-use complex located in Budapest, has reached its final stage. The second phase of the project comprises a total of 20,000 sqm of office space.
Construction
Strabag Romania has been selected by the developer and investor PPF Real Estate as the general contractor for the construction of its new office property, The Arc. The investment will bring a ten-story, class A office building to the 6th District of Bucharest.
Investment & finance
Empira Group has successfully completed the acquisition of six multi-family buildings as well as residential and commercial properties in the Neukölln, Kreuzberg and Wedding districts of Berlin. The purchase encompasses around 400 residential and commercial units.
Warehouse & industrial
The construction of Hillwood and LCube Wrocław East in Dobrzykowice has been finished. The project comprises almost 60,000 sqm of warehouse space, of which around 53 pct has already been commercialised.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has completed the construction of City Logistics Warsaw IX. Situated in Targówek Fabryczny, the centre with an area of over 13,000 sqm already has its first tenants.
Office & mixed-use development
Savills is moving its headquarters as of March 2025, to new office space within the Masaryčka project in the centre of Prague. Additional 50 pct floor space will give it the foundation to expand its headcount towards 100 employees over the next phase of the business.
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.
Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.
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.
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