UKRAINE Wildberries now growing in Ukraine
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Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.
Retail & leisure
Bank Pekao has refinanced Newbridge Poland’s ‘Smart’ portfolio of retail parks with a EUR 10 mln loan.
Material partner
SKJB Szybkowski Kuźma Jeleń Brzoza-Ostrowska is a Polish boutique legal practice that’s not only celebrating its 5th birthday this year but also its listing on the Legal 500 ranking.
Office & mixed-use development
Hungarian investment manager Indotek Group has acquired the One Victoriei Center office building in Bucharest’s CBD from its developer, One United Properties, for an undisclosed sum.
Office & mixed-use development
Siemens Energy has leased 7,500 sqm of office space in the second office phase of One Cotroceni Park, which is under development in Bucharest.
Warehouse & industrial
Polish industrial developer LCube is to start its latest project – a 35,000 sqm warehousing centre near Mszczonów, about 55 km south-west of Warsaw city centre.
Retail & leisure
Atrium European Real Estate Limited, part of Israeli group G City (formerly Gazit Globe), has sold the Optima shopping centre in Košice in eastern Slovakia to an undisclosed buyer for EUR 118 mln.
Investment & finance
Immofinanz has published details of its updated strategy following the majority takeover of the Austrian real estate investor by its Czech counterpart CPI Property Group. This will involve selling off around EUR 1 bln of assets.
Warehouse & industrial
Prague-based industrial developer P3 has completed the purchase of a plot of almost 5 ha in Katowice for the development of a 22,600 sqm warehouse centre.
Warehouse & industrial
The Antczak Group has completed construction work in the Wrocław V Logistics Centre for developer GLP.
Office & mixed-use development
The Bridge, an office tower under construction by Ghelamco on pl. Europejski in Warsaw is the first project in the CEE to be awarded SmartScore and WiredScore certification for technically advanced buildings.
Office & mixed-use development
Aluminium can producer Canpack, a subsidiary of Giorgi Global Holdings has moved into the MK29 centre in Krakówa into offices designed by Trzop Architekci.
Warehouse & industrial
Czech industrial developer CTP has completed CTPark Mogoșoaia, which comprises a 35,000 sqm BTS warehouse for A&D Pharma – Dr.Max Group. According to CTP, this is the largest pharmaceutical storage facility so far developed in Romania.
Office & mixed-use development
OSTC Polska, part of UK-based derivatives trading group OTSC, has signed up to use serviced offices provided by Chillispaces in the Alchemia Argon office building in Gdańsk.
Office & mixed-use development
Romanian coworking provider Hotspot Workhub has leased 2,545 sqm in Orhideea Towers in Bucharest.
Warehouse & industrial
Swedish wall art retailer Desenio Group has leased almost 18,500 sqm of industrial and logistics space in CTPark Bor in Western Bohemia, where it has opened a distribution centre for European markets outside the Nordic region.
Warehouse & industrial
Sirin Development has completed the fourth stage of Liepkalnis Industrial Park in Vilnius in an investment of EUR 13 mln.
Warehouse & industrial
Chinese e-commerce giant JD International Logistics has leased more than 15,100 sqm in the newly-completed Panattoni Park Nadarzyn, about 25 km southwest of central Warsaw.
Construction
Erbud has been awarded a PLN 29.8 mln contract to modernise the Rector’s Office of the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM).
Warehouse & industrial
Cosmetics company Cupio has leased 3,200 sqm of warehouse space in CTPark Timișoara to support both its brick-and-mortar chain as well as its internet sales.
Office & mixed-use development
Graphcore, a UK-based IT company specialising in AI systems, has opened a 1,000 sqm R&D centre in the Olivia Star building in Gdańsk.
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.
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.
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