Just outside Bucharest, WDP constructed a full built-to-suit warehouse of more than 40,000 square metres for Decathlon, the international sports retail chain. From this high-visibility location along the A3 motorway, the warehouse serves as many as one million parcels a year to 54 shops in five European countries.
On the 27th of October, Dutch retailer Albert Heijn opened its new Home Shop Center in Barendrecht (NL). As the foodtech company is always on the lookout for new technologies to work smarter and more efficiently, this warehouse built by WDP features the latest in automation. In addition, this gasless building operates almost completely on solar energy.
Keeping your buildings fireproof: we all know it’s vital but that doesn’t make it easy. Storage areas, in particular, with hundreds of products all kept together, involve hidden obstacles that make your building vulnerable to a fire. And the most obvious rules are broken with striking frequency. We have listed four of them for you, so you will always be one spark ahead of the fire.
It is quite an understatement to say that a lot happened last year – including in the logistics property market. Based on recent half-year figures, we took a look at the main evolutions in WDP's five most important markets.
Fruit and vegetable exporter Hoogsteder Fruit and Vegetables, part of The Greenery, recently moved to a brand-new warehouse in Bleiswijk. It’s just barely two kilometres away on a map, but it’s still a milestone for Hoogsteder, which is centralising its activities in the 8000-m² warehouse.
The real estate specialist WDP is a listed company operating in several sectors and a leader on the Belgian and Dutch storage space rental market. WDP in fact caters for all sectors involved in logistics and storage. The share in the fruit and vegetables sector is about 10% No less than €120 million worth of projects had already been completed in all sectors by late June. WDP has expanded to the tune of €1 billion within the space of five years and has set its sights on the same growth target for the next five years.
