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UKRAINE Wildberries now growing in Ukraine

E-commerce
Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries has entered the Ukrainian market.

Wildberries is now able to offer Ukrainian consumers 32,000 brands of women’s, men’s and children’s clothing, shoes and accessories, sports goods, stationery, pet product and toys.

Wildberries continues to expand its geographical reach. In January 2020 we launched sales in Poland, and in May we started to deliver goods in Slovakia. The start of sales in Ukraine is the latest stage in our international strategy. Our Ukrainian customers will have access to a wide range of products from and tens of thousands of brands.
Vyacheslav Ivashchenko, the development director of Wildberries

Orders can be picked up at 8,000 delivery points or by courier delivery at home if the pick-up point is too far away.

Wildberries now operates in eight countries: Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.

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Residential

Poland More then 500 units under the Lett brand

schedule 01 December 2023
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In two years, Finnish developer YIT has built and handed over more than 500 rental units in Warsaw to the Nrep fund. The flats were built in three Warsaw districts - Ursynów, Bemowo and Mokotów.

ESG

Poland CMS, WELL done!

schedule 01 December 2023
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The CMS law firm's headquarters, located in Varso Tower, has become the first office arrangement in Poland to be awarded WELL Platinum certification. Thus, CMS joins the ranks of four law firms worldwide that have an office that complies with the highest standards of occupant wellbeing.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Concentrix circles in on Global Office Park

schedule 30 November 2023
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Customer engagement specialist Concentrix has leased almost 5,200 sqm in Global Office Park in Katowice, which is owned by Cavatina. The deal is the largest office lease in the city in 2023.

Investment & finance

Poland mBank provides loan for 7R

schedule 30 November 2023
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7R has obtained a development loan for the 7R City Flex Katowice I project. The financing of EUR 15.5 mln was provided by mBank.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Universal Express long-stay in Pruszków

schedule 30 November 2023
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Universal Express has extended its lease of the MLP Pruszków II park for another period. The company has been a tenant of the MLP logistics centre for almost 10 years.

Hotels

Poland The seventh Accor in Kraków

schedule 30 November 2023
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A new hotel is being built in Kraków. It will be the seventh facility of the AccorInvest/Orbis group in the capital of Malopolska under the Accor brand in the lifestyle segment. The hotel is scheduled to open in Q2 2025.

Investment & finance

Poland Galeria Tarnovia changes hands

schedule 30 November 2023
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A London-based European investment company has finalised the purchase of Galeria Tarnovia, which is one of the biggest transactions on the Polish retail property market this year. The Tarnów mall has about 17,000 sqm of leasable space (36,500 sqm of total space).

Infrastructure

Poland PLN 1.5 bln for the airport

schedule 29 November 2023
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The investment programme until 2030 worth more than PLN 1.5 bln has been approved for Katowice's Wojciech Korfanty Airport. The programme will include more than 20 projects, with the construction of a passenger terminal, a cargo terminal, a technical hangar, as well as taking into account changes to the airport's transport system.

For Ukraine

Poland Nansen Refugee Award goes to Poland!

schedule 29 November 2023
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The UN Nansen Refugee Award award will go to Poland for the first time. According to the office of the UNHCR High Commissioner this year's regional winner for Europe is a Polish couple, Lena and Władysław Grochowski.

Eurobuild FM

Poland Edyta Chromiec on ESG in the construction sector

schedule 28 November 2023
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We invite you to listen to the next episode of Eurobuild FM! Edyta Chromiec, senior associate of the ESG department at Colliers, describes how Polish general contractors are prepared to implement ESG principles – not only environmental, but also social ones.

Warehouse & industrial

Hungary DHL relocates to zero ready PT1 megapark

schedule 28 November 2023
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DHL Supply Chain, a member of the DHL Group, has leased 20,000 sqm in the largest stand-alone modern industrial building in the Budapest area, developed by HelloParks. The park has been prepared to enable zero-emissions operations.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Under CTP's one roof

schedule 28 November 2023
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Morska Agencja Gdynia, a Polish freight forwarding and logistics company, has leased more than 21,000 sqm of space in the CTPark Gdańsk Port complex. The company will integrate all its warehouse space in one location.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Next MLP project in Silesia

schedule 28 November 2023
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MLP Group is investing to develop a new logistics centre within the Katowice Special Economic Zone. The upcoming MLP Bieruń West, situated on recently acquired land, is set to provide approximately 55,000 sqm of warehouse space.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Mogilska 35 Offices officially opened

schedule 27 November 2023
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Warimpex has opened its third office building in Kraków, the Mogilska 35 Offices. The taxonomy-compliant property has 11,900 sqm of space, is located in the immediate vicinity of the city centre. The building is already almost half let.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland KiK warehouse kicks off in Rabowice

schedule 27 November 2023
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The first Polish distribution centre of the KiK discount chain will open in Rabowice. The property has a warehouse space of 40,000 sqm.

Investment & finance

Poland Transaction at ul. Cybernetyki

schedule 27 November 2023
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White Stone Development has sold two office buildings at Cybernetyki 7 Street. The Hol77 complex in Warsaw's Mokotów district has been purchased by Flora Development 22.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Good Point for Bremer

schedule 27 November 2023
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Real Management has signed an agreement with Bremer, entrusting it with the role of general contractor for the production and industrial park Good Point V.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Regesta is going to Zgierz

schedule 27 November 2023
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Regesta will lease 21,700 sqm of warehouse space in Panattoni Park Zgierz. The central warehouse will support its four existing properties across Poland, with another two under construction.

Retail & leisure

CEE Pařížská is the most expensive

schedule 24 November 2023
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In this year's 33rd edition of the Cushman & Wakefield Main Streets Across the World ranking, the Czech Pařížská street has been ranked 11th in Europe and the first in the CEE region. The survey compares nearly 50 countries around the world by the level of retail rents on the most expensive shopping street in each country.

Office & mixed-use development

POLAND First offices arise at Towarowa 22

schedule 23 November 2023
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Construction work has begun on Office House, the first stage of the Towarowa 22 multifunctional development in central Warsaw.

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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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