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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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Retail & leisure

Romania E-commerce as a major driver

schedule 03 April 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

According to the "Quo Vadis E-commerce" report released by Cushman & Wakefield, the online commerce continues to be a growth driver for the industrial & logistics real estate sector, generating significant opportunities for developers and investors.

Investment & finance

Poland BIG Poland acquires Power Park Olsztyn

schedule 03 April 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

BIG Poland has announced the acquisition of Power Park Olsztyn, a shopping centre located in the southern part of Olsztyn. This strategic investment reinforces the company’s commitment to expanding its presence in Poland’s retail sector through high-quality assets.

Warehouse & industrial

Germany Panattoni City Dock Hilden now fully leased

schedule 03 April 2025
Opr./edited by AH

All 17 units of Panattoni City Dock Hilden are now fully leased with the signing of two new tenants. The park comprises almost 27,000 sqm.

Hotels

Poland Condo to be built on the Baltic

schedule 03 April 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Peninsula Property has signed a contract with Doraco to build The Elements Resort, a condohotel in Dźwirzyno on the Baltic sea.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Accolade takes on BTS project

schedule 03 April 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Accolade is to construct a BTS project in Świdnik for an undisclosed Polish courier firm.

Office & mixed-use development

Romania Henkel enters Equilibrium 2

schedule 02 April 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Consumer chemicals producer Henkel is relocating to the second building of the Equilibrium complex, developed by Skanska in Bucharest's Barbu Văcărescu-Floreasca.

Investment & finance

Poland Syrena sells PRS project in Warsaw

schedule 02 April 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Syrena Real Estate has sold its first PRS project at ul. Wolska in Warsaw. The new owner is the Belgian company Xior Student Housing NV. The transaction value was EUR 12 mln, making it the second successful sale of a stabilised PRS project in Poland.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland pbb lends EUR 120 mln to EQT Real Estate

schedule 02 April 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (pbb) has underwritten an investment facility, totalling EUR 120 mln to refinance a logistics portfolio for EQT Real Estate.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Igepa Polska leases new space at MLP Łódź

schedule 02 April 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Igepa, the paper and visual advertising media distributor, is expanding its cooperation with MLP Group. Under the new agreement, the company has leased approx. 7,650 sqm of space at the MLP Łódź logistics centre, which includes modern offices, a showroom, and a terrace. 

Infrastructure

Poland Tunnel to be built under Baltic

schedule 01 April 2025
Opr./edited by AH

The Polish and Danish governments have entered preliminary discussions for the construction of a tunnel between Szczecin and Copenhagen underneath the Baltic sea.

Hotels

Europe Marriott plans to expand Four Points by Flex portfolio

schedule 01 April 2025
Opr./edited by AH

Marriott International has announced plans to double its portfolio of Four Points Flex by Sheraton hotels across Europe by the end of 2026.

Investment & finance

Germany KGAL buys office complex in Munich

schedule 01 April 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

KGAL has acquired the Streitfeld Lofts office complex with 8,400 sqm of rental space and 54 underground parking spaces for one of its institutional special funds. The seller of the property is one of the BlackRock Real Asset Funds.

Investment & finance

Germany IntercityHotel sold in Berlin

schedule 01 April 2025
Opr./edited by JC

CA Immo has successfully sold the IntercityHotel Berlin Hauptbahnhof on Washingtonplatz. The property was sold at a premium to the book value.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Global fashion giant chooses Lower Silesia

schedule 01 April 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Panattoni has secured a new tenant to its Lower Silesian investment. A leader in fashion retail has leased 56,000 sqm at Panattoni Park Legnica. 

Investment & finance

Poland Punkt gets some money

schedule 31 March 2025
Opr./edited by JC

Torus has successfully signed a EUR 20 mln facility agreement with PKO Bank Polski, securing financing for its latest office investment, Punkt in Gdańsk.

Events

Poland Back to the Future Conference

schedule 31 March 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

The Back to the Future conference, organised by Urban Land Institute Polska, will take place on 9-10 April 2025 at the Norblin Factory Event Hall in Warsaw. ‘Eurobuild CEE’ is the media patron of the event.

Hotels

Europe Hotel brand makes further debuts

schedule 28 March 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Handwritten Collection announces further expansion in Europe. The chain plans to open more than 10 new hotels in the coming months. The new Handwritten Collection hotels include the first hotel in Croatia in a historic building in Rijeka, a hotel in Debrecen, Hungary, and a hotel in Tirana, Albania.

Warehouse & industrial

Poland Iron Mountain extends lease contract

schedule 28 March 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Iron Mountain, a company offering information and document storage services, has extended its lease for almost 31,000 sqm of warehouse space in three buildings at Prologis Park Błonie.

ESG

Poland Nestlé House is Excellent

schedule 28 March 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Nestlé House office building, located at ul. Domaniewska, in the business district of Mokotów in Warsaw, has been awarded the prestigious BREEAM In-Use certification at the Excellent level. The property is part of the Hines Poland Sustainable Income Fund  portfolio.

Warehouse & industrial

Germany Panattoni's new tenants in Hamburg

schedule 27 March 2025
Opr./edited by ANZ

Three more companies, Innovaze Media, Thiele & Fendel and Avaso Technology Solutions, have joined the City Dock Hamburg Norderstedt business park on the outskirts of Hamburg.

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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