Tag: Western Europe

Greater Poland remains one of Poland’s key economic and logistics hubs. Strong industrial activity, proximity to Germany and access to the A2 motorway are supporting rising road-freight demand, while DACHSER’s Poznań branch is reporting double-digit volume growth in 2026 and planning a new site for 2029.

Poland has one of the EU’s lower housing-cost overburden rates, but the trade-off is limited living space. Around 31% of people live in overcrowded homes and there are just 1.2 rooms per person, compared with an EU average of 1.7.

Polish automotive-parts distributor Auto Partner generated a record PLN 2.46 billion in first-half 2026 revenue. EBITDA rose 46.7% and net profit 60.8%, while exports now account for almost 53% of sales.

Poland’s cosmetics market was worth €6.4 billion in 2025, up 9.3% year on year. It now represents 7% of the EU market, while European producers face stronger US and Asian competition and regulatory pressure.

Polish biotech company Mabion has received a new work order from Novavax covering analytical services for products at an early stage of development. The contract value was not disclosed.

More than 150 employees have reportedly lost their jobs at Uber’s Kraków centre, while some processes are being transferred to India. The move reflects a broader change in Poland’s business-services sector as routine work is automated or moved to lower-cost locations.

Temporary border controls between Poland and Germany are becoming a business issue as well as a security measure. Transport companies warn that even modest delays can raise logistics costs and disrupt tightly scheduled supply chains.

Artificial intelligence is becoming more deeply embedded in business operations, yet the financial returns remain uneven. According to McKinsey’s latest global AI survey, 80% of respondents say AI improves their individual productivity, but only 37% attribute a positive impact on organisational EBIT to the technology. Just 6% of organisations qualify as AI high performers — companies that attribute at least 5% of EBIT to AI and consider the value generated by the technology to be significant. The findings suggest that the biggest gains come not from deploying more tools, but from fundamentally redesigning how work gets done.

Poland’s economy is accelerating, driving technological transformation, but the flow of workers from abroad has been sharply restricted. On the one hand, demand for...

Polish companies have spent years operating in an environment shaped by economic volatility, regulatory change, labour shortages, geopolitical risks and repeated disruptions to supply chains. While these conditions have made doing business more difficult, they may also have created an important competitive advantage: a generation of executives accustomed to making fast decisions, managing uncertainty and continuously adapting their organisations to changing conditions.

Poland’s foodservice sector grew by 4.7% in 2025, supported partly by the quick-service restaurant segment, which expanded by 5.7%, according to a Deloitte report....

According to Colliers’ latest report, CEE Investment Scene H1 2026, investment volume in Poland’s commercial real estate market exceeded EUR 3 billion in the...

Companies are increasingly prioritising business continuity over the relentless optimisation — meaning reduction — of inventories of materials and production components. An Allianz Trade...

Europe’s automotive industry is losing competitiveness as manufacturers struggle with high energy prices, the cost of the technological transition and increasingly strong competition from...