UKRAINE Wildberries now growing in Ukraine
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Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.
Retail & leisure
Cushman & Wakefield took over the management of Atrium Flora in Prague’s Vinohrady district, a shopping centre owned by G City Europe.
Eurobuild FM
We are delighted to inform you that we are starting the fifth series of the Eurobuild FM podcast channel! Our first guest, Piotr Trzciński of Savills Investment Management, comments on the current situation and gives us his forecasts for the Polish investment market.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni has started construction work on Panattoni Park Łódź South II, which is to comprise 57,300 sqm and will be built in a single stage. The complex is to be BREEAM 'Excellent' certified.
Warehouse & industrial
Polish warehouse developed 7R has leased out the entire first stage of 7R Park Bydgoszcz, which is now being prepared for expansion. The main tenant of the first phase is now Polish logistics operator Rohlig Suus Logistics, which has decided to lease another 3,000 sqm, bringing its premises in the park up to almost 16,500 sqm.
Investment & finance
Savills Investment Management transacted more than EUR 3.6 bln globally in private real estate equity transactions in 2022, including EUR 3.1 bln in Europe and EUR 540 mln in Asia. The investment platform completed 112 transactions across 14 countries in 2022, including around EUR 2.1 bln of acquisitions and EUR 1.5 bln of disposals, resulting in a net investment of app. EUR 600 mln.
Office & mixed-use development
Polish serviced office operator OmniOffice has leased 3,090 sqm in Warsaw Unit from Ghelamco.
Investment & finance
Czech real estate investor Trigea nemovitostní fond has acquired City Logistics Wrocław II from Panattoni for an undisclosed sum.
ESG
The concentration of population in rural areas, lower construction standards and less service-driven economy contribute to the divergence between the CEE region and Western Europe' structure of energy consumption - reveals Colliers new report “The Journey Towards ESG Compliance 2022/2023”.
Office & mixed-use development
Around 500,000 sqm of office spaces are unoccupied in Bucharest, reflecting a vacancy rate of 15.2 pct. 50 pct of the total vacant spaces can be found in buildings developed over 15 years ago, most of them requiring investments to attract new tenants.
Warehouse & industrial
Serbia’s emergence as a manufacturing base with a skilled cost-effective labour force in close proximity to neighbouring EU markets, is driving a surge in leasings and built-to-suit developments across CTP’s four industrial and logistics parks in the country.
Eurobuild CEE
It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of Karol Bartos, one of the most well-known and distinguished personalities on the Polish real estate market, to which he has made an immense contribution down the years. To his family and friends we offer our deepest condolences.
Events
MIPIM announces the finalists of the MIPIM Awards, a real estate competition for completed or yet to be built projects around the world. This year, two Polish projects have been nominated in a total of three categories.
Investment & finance
Ireland-based Greenman Group, the parent company of grocery real estate investment fund manager Greenman Investments, has expanded into Poland with the acquisition of retail asset manager and developer Newbridge Poland.
Office & mixed-use development
French engineering and construction group Egis has leased 1,100 sqm in America House in Bucharest. The Romanian branch of the company will move into its new headquarters in the summer of 2023.
Warehouse & industrial
The total value of properties divested in 2022 by 7R totalled more than EUR 430 mln - a record for the Polish warehousing developer.
Warehouse & industrial
Raben Logistics Polska has leased 5,100 sqm in Hillwood Częstochowa-Miasto, becoming the first tenant to lease space in the city warehousing park, which is under construction.
Warehouse & industrial
CTP is nearing the completion of a new building at CTPark Prague North. The new warehouse, with the working name D8.7B, will offer 32,000 sqm upon its completion in March 2023.
Green projects
Globalworth received 47 various ESG related certifications for its Romanian portfolio in 2022, among them LEED, BREEM, WELL Health & Safety and Access4you accreditations.
Office & mixed-use development
GTC closed the year by achieving a very high occupancy rate for its office buildings in Warsaw. Particularly important for GTC's result was a contract-laden end of the year. The company signed office leases from its Warsaw portfolio for nearly 20,000 sqm, 34 pct of all transactions were new tenants.
Property and Facility Management
Business Campus, an office complex in Katowice with a combined area of close to 50,000 sqm, has a new property manager. Its owner, a joint venture of the Czech fund INVESTIKA realitní fond and Luxembourg-based private equity investor Bud Holdings, has entrusted real estate advisory firm Savills to provide property management for the complex.
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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