News

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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.

Tulip opens in Kraków

POLAND Louvre Hotels has opened the first Metropolo by Golden Tulip hotel in Poland – on ul. Orzechowa in Kraków.

Residential

Nowy Horyzont comes into view

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POLAND Euro Styl has completed the largest residential project in its history – the development of Nowy Horyzont in Gdańsk, which has taken eleven years.

Interior design

Desk without distractions

POLAND The new CS5040 desk from Nowy Styl Group features a minimalist form free from unnecessary structural elements.

Decathlon gets phygital

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POLAND A phygital store, which integrates traditional retail formats with digital systems – is what you could call the new Decathlon store in the Vis à Vis retail park in Warsaw’s Wilanów district.

Robert De Niro's waiting... to open a hotel

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

POLAND Luxury hotel brand Nobu is to enter Poland.

Residential

Unidevelopment starts sales for third Ursus estate

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

POLAND Unidevelopment and CPD have started apartment sales for the Ursa Home estate, which will be their third joint project developed in Ursus in Warsaw and is to be built near the Ursa Smart City and Ursa Park projects that were completed earlier.

Murapol smarts up

Agnieszka Zielińska

POLAND This year Murapol intends to install a Home Management System (HMS) system in a number of its residential projects.

Twin peaks (plus one)

POLAND The Tremonti Ski & Bike Resort will have been built on ul. Konstytucji 3 Maja in Karpacz by the end of 2020.

Interior design

Ogilvy goes open with Trzop

POLAND Advertising agency Ogilvy has unveiled its interior designed by Trzop Architekci in Warsaw's Centrum Praskie Koneser centre.

Empik hits the gas

Eurobuild CEE

POLAND Empik wants to increase the the size of its chain to 370 stores by 2023. Last year, the group opened 18 and a further ten had major refurbishments.

Deloitte delves into the digital world

Agnieszka Zielińska

POLAND Jan Michalski, the former Central Europe Salesforce Practice Leader at Deloitte is to head the new digital team in Poland and Central Europe.

Tele2 takes up 20,000 sqm in Comcity

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

RUSSIA Telecommunications operator Tele2 has expanded its lease by 5,150 sqm and will now occupy around 20,000 sqm in the Comcity office park in Moscow’s New Moscow district.

Technology

RFID in LPP

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POLAND Checkpoint Systems is to install radio frequency identification systems (RFIDs) to the production line of LPP’s e-commerce platform as well as in its 1,700 physical stores in 23 countries.

Bydgoszcz hotel under wraps

POLAND Construction work is soon to start on the reconstruction project for an office building owned by Projprzem on ul. Bernardyńska in Bydgoszcz.

Biedronka props up Portuguese parent

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POLAND In 2018 sales in Biedronka discount grocery stores increased to almost EUR 11.7 bln – a 5.6 pct increase on 2017.

LPP moves into Nysa

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POLAND Four brands of the LPP clothing group are to enter the retail market of Nysa in Opole province.

More Domar with more parking

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POLAND The construction of a car park and additional retail space at Galeria Wnętrz Domar in Wrocław is now nearing completion.

CDRL goes East

Aneta Cichla

CEE/EE REGIONS CDRL, the owner of children’s clothing brand Coccodrillo, is to expand into Eastern European markets.

Investment & finance

Sonae Sierra enters Poland through Balmain partnership