Take-up rate for warehouses in the Netherlands, by city 2014-2022
International brands: an important driver behind the Netherlands’ logistics market
The total size of the Dutch logistics market was approximately 41 million square meters in 2020, the highest number in nine years. This is because many international brands opened distribution centers in the Netherlands. Venlo, for example, supplies European fashion brands Michael Kors, Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein and Under Armour via Trade Port Venlo Noord. Spain’s Inditex (the company behind Zara, Pull&Bear and Berschka) are to open a logistics center in Lelystad in 2019, whilst Lidl opened its European e-commerce DC in the West-Brabant region (around the city of Roosendaal) in 2018.
Dutch warehouses are popular investment tools for foreign investors
The Netherlands’ growth as a logistics hub for retailers and e-commerce companies in Europe hasn’t gone unnoticed. In 2019, 73 percent of all investments in logistics property in the country came from foreign investors. Most cross-border capital came from Germany and the UK, with nine percent coming from South Korean investors.