On Friday, October 15, Alza.cz opened a new logistics center in GLP Park in Chrášťany near Prague. It includes the largest Czech showroom specializing in large household appliances and AlzaDrive for contactless collection of goods directly from the car. The showroom on an area of 1,200 square meters offers the largest exhibition of large white appliances in the Czech Republic from all leading manufacturers and 20,000 products ready for immediate purchase. (We supplemented the article with an exclusive photo gallery of Jiří Koťátek directly from the warehouse).
The logistics provider Dachser Czech Republic has signed a contract with the development company VGP for tailor-made construction in České Budějovice. New logistics and office space with a total area of almost 7,000 square meters will be built in a newly emerging industrial park in the Světlík commercial zone on the outskirts of the city. Commissioning of the premises is scheduled for next spring.
The development company Prologis has erected the first pillars of its new Prologis Park Prague D1 Ostředek. There will be a total of three buildings in a strategically located location with a 30-minute drive to Prague.
With the opening of a new logistics center in Tuchoměřice near Prague, the transport and forwarding company UPS is responding to the growing demand for e-commerce in the Czech Republic and throughout Europe. The area with an operating area of 8,500 square meters will sort up to 5,000 packages per hour, ie five times more than the capacity of the existing UPS center in Prague Ruzyně.
Rohlik Group will deploy an automated warehousing and retrieval system (ASRS) in its distribution centers, thus increasing the efficiency of order picking and utilization of warehouse capacity. In the first phase, the group invests about 45 million euros in automation, in the years 2022-2025 it will be a total investment of up to 400 million euros.
The Arete Investment and Real Estate Group, which includes real estate investment funds, disbursed all investors in the Arete Invest CEE II sub-fund after the March sale of the portfolio, thus successfully closing the investment cycle. This is the second successful closing of the sub-fund and its deletion from the register of investment funds maintained by the CNB. The Arete Group is the only one on the Czech market to close and settle investment funds at the end of the investment cycle, directly as part of the investment strategy.
The new logistics center of the sports chain, which is being established in the Contera Park Ostrava D1 in Hrušov, is approaching the first big milestone. Developer Contera has built the rough construction of most of the warehouse, and will roughly complete the rest by the end of October. The Sportisimo logistics center boasts state-of-the-art technologies and will be one of the largest in the country. In the following years, up to 700 people will find work here.
