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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.
Shopee's homepage displays a message that reads: We regret to inform you that the Shopee Poland platform will cease operations on 13 January 2023 at 23:59. Orders placed before this date are expected to be processed according to standard procedures, support and handling of placed orders will continue. The company does not give official reasons for the closure. According to the Wirtualne media portal, employees were communicated that the decision was related to "high uncertainty about the m
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Poland Poland versus the West

schedule 28 February 2025
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Listen to the latest recording from our Eurobuild FM series. We asked Jos Tromp, Head of Business Development and Head of Research & Data Intelligence, Continental Europe, CBRE, to comment on the market situation.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland Sports brands in Olivia Prime

schedule 28 February 2025
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The worldbox chain of clothing stores is opening its first office in Gdańsk. The company's headquarters will occupy an area of nearly 1,300 sqm in the Olivia Prime building, as part of the Olivia Centre complex.

Investment & finance

Romania Solida enters Romania with Victoria Center deal

schedule 28 February 2025
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Dubai-headquartered investor Solida Capital has finalised its first transaction in Romania – the acquisition of the Victoria Center office building in Bucharest from Manova Partners for an undisclosed sum.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland IT chooses Office House 

schedule 27 February 2025
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Emagine, an IT outsourcing company, has leased 6,000 sqm of office space in Office House. The office building is being constructed in Warsaw as part of the first stage of the Towarowa22 mixed-use project.

Office & mixed-use development

Slovakia Chalupkova enters permitting process

schedule 27 February 2025
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The second phase of the Chalupkova office building project will be built on the corner of Chalupkova and Mlynské nivy streets in Bratislava. Preparatory work on the site is planned for H2 of 2025.

Office & mixed-use development

Czech Republic Office space imbalance in Prague

schedule 26 February 2025
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According to an analysis by Savills, office development in Prague has been declining rapidly since 2021. This trend is confirmed by 2024 figures, which show that only 72,800 sqm of new office space was completed there.

Office & mixed-use development

Poland New supply stagnates as tenants rethink strategies

schedule 26 February 2025
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Occupier demand in Poland’s regional city office markets rebounded in late 2024, says BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland in its report At a Glance. Regional City Office Markets Q4 2024.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland GT Logistics stays with Reino

schedule 26 February 2025
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GT Logistics has renewed its lease for 21,000 sqm of warehouse space at Reino IO Piotrków. The company is part of Grupa Transportowa, which operates in the TFL sector.

Office & mixed-use development

Germany Central Parx pre-leased as work begins

schedule 25 February 2025
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International law firm White & Case has been secured by ABG Real Estate Group and HanseMerkur Grundvermögen as a long-term anchor tenant for11,670 sqm of the office space in the Central Parx development in Frankfurt am Main.

Investment & finance

Poland Holcim to expand research centre

schedule 25 February 2025
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Holcim Polska has received funding from the National Centre for Research and Development under European Funds for the development of innovative building materials and the expansion of a modern Research and Development Centre in the Kujawy region.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland 50k leased by drugstore chain

schedule 25 February 2025
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Panattoni is expanding Panattoni Park Zgierz on the northern outskirts of Łódź with a new 70,000 sqm phase. Following the expansion, the park will reach a total size of 120,000 sqm.  A leading drugstore chain has leased 50,000 sqm of the space.

Investment & finance

Romania Western appetite is strong in Romania

schedule 25 February 2025
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Investors from Western Europe, particularly from Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom, spent EUR 1.75 bln on real estate assets in Romania over the past five years, according to data Cushman & Wakefield Echinox. 

Investment & finance

Czech Republic Record hotel deal in Prague

schedule 24 February 2025
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Hilton Prague has been sold to the Czech group PPF, marking the largest single-asset hotel transaction ever recorded in CEE. The hotel comprises 791 rooms.

Investment & finance

Serbia GTC sells in Belgrade

schedule 24 February 2025
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GTC has closed the sale of its GTC X office building in Belgrade for EUR 52 mln. The facility offers nearly 18,000 sqm of space.

Retail & leisure

Romania Scallier has plans for Romania

schedule 24 February 2025
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Poznan-based company Scallier is opening another facility under the Funshop Park brand in Romania. The retail park of approx. 10,000 sqm, located in the Arad district, is nearing completion.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Lease extension at Prologis Park Łódź II

schedule 24 February 2025
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One of the companies offering supply chain management solutions has extended its lease for warehouse and office space at the Prologis Park Łódź II logistics park. The facility has a total area of nearly 30,000 sqm.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Chinese giant expands in Poland

schedule 24 February 2025
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JD.com has joined the tenant lineup at MLP Pruszków II. Through its subsidiary, Jingdong Logistics – Chinese supply chain logistics operator – the company has secured a lease of 9,600 sqm of warehouse and office space.

Investment & finance

Poland Fortress buys from Panattoni

schedule 21 February 2025
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Fortress Real Estate Investments has acquired Panattoni Park Tricity East V. The complex includes a completed warehouse covering 50,000 sqm.

Investment & finance

Poland Henderson Park & EPP secure EUR 148.6 mln refinancing

schedule 20 February 2025
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Henderson Park, the international private equity real estate firm, and EPP, the asset manager of office properties, have successfully secured a EUR 148.6 mln loan from Berlin Hyp AG and PKO Bank Polski to refinance a Polish office portfolio.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland GLP attracts magnets

schedule 20 February 2025
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The final building at GLP Kraków Airport Logistics Centre has been completed. The developer delivered a 9,500 sqm warehouse for SMA Magnetics.

Latest in E-commerce

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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