Grubb & Ellis Global Logistics take supply chain operations efficiency into consideration when developing real estate solutions. Services include network & strategic consulting; real estate market research; site selection & optimization; build-to-suit planning & project management; mapping & demographics, and government incentive negotiation.

1. Grubb & Ellis Global Logistics
Integrated Real Estate Solutions
for the Logistics Industry

2. Grubb & Ellis
Global Logistics
In the interconnected global The Grubb & Ellis Global Logistics
economy, speed to market and Practice offers a comprehensive
an efficient supply chain drive and seamless service that
success. Major corporations integrates logistics and real estate
have identified supply chains as into a single platform. The result
central to their overall competitive is a managed network of
and cost reduction strategies. professionals that understands
Thus, they are redesigning, the operational requirements of
restructuring and overhauling to its clients and their need to reduce
improve performance and reduce cost and increase efficiency.
costs. The Grubb & Ellis Global
Logistics Practice is comprised of
consultants, brokers and managers
committed to serving logistics-
driven companies.
Grubb & Ellis Global Logistics offers a
comprehensive and seamless service
that integrates logistics and real estate
into a single platform.
About the Grubb & Ellis Global Logistics Practice
The Grubb & Ellis Global Logistics Practice serves corporations, third-party
providers, private and institutional investors and real estate developers.
This specialized practice partners with clients to provide solutions that
support business goals, optimize supply chains, improve speed
to market, reduce costs and respond to changing customer requirements
in the constantly evolving world of global logistics.
Unique among other commercial real estate services companies,
the professionals of the Global Logistics Practice provide clients with
a combination of real estate and logistics experience. These skilled
practitioners are strategically located throughout Grubb & Ellis 130
owned and affiliate offices, offering the multi-market global reach
required by most companies in need of logistics services.
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3. Grubb & Ellis Global Logistics partners
with clients to provide solutions that
support business goals, optimize
supply chains, improve speed to market,
reduce costs and respond to changing
customer requirements in the constantly
evolving world of global logistics.
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4. Logistics and Real Estate Integration:
The Service Offering
The Grubb & Ellis Global Logistics Practice fully integrates strategic business planning and logistics consulting
with project implementation to develop solutions that create operating efficiencies and drive cost out of the
supply chain. Whether strategic planning, site selection, Foreign Trade Zone advisory services, network
optimization, transaction management, project management, lease administration or property valuations,
the company takes great care and effort to leverage all of its resources to solve our client’s unique needs.
Resources
Strategic Consulting Project Management
· Strategic Real Estate Planning · Project Planning
· Business Location Consultation · Facility Design
Facility Strategic · Asset Optimization / Value Add
· Value Engineering
Management Consulting · Construction Oversight
· Sustainability · Post-Construction Coordination
· Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) Consulting · Move Management
· Operations Analysis and Planning
· Mitigate Supply Chain Risks Lease Administration
Capital Network
· Lease & Owned Property
Markets/ Design and Network Design Document Abstracting
Valuations Site Selection and Site Selection
Logistics · Network Rationalization
· Database Administration
& Reporting
Solution · Transportation Modeling · Escalation / CAM
· Network Design Expense Auditing
Lease Transaction
· Labor and Quality of Life Analysis · Payment Processing
Administration Management
· Incentives Optimization
· Occupancy Cost Analysis Capital Markets/
Valuations
Project Account Transaction · Investment Sales
Management Management Management · Sale / Leasebacks
· Acquisitions · Equity / Debt Financing
· Dispositions – Sales and Leasing · Property Valuations
· Build-to-Suits
· Lease Renewals Facility Management
· Consolidations / Expansions · Facility Operations,
· Cost / Capital Management Maintenance & Security
· Facility Engineering
Account Management · Energy Management
· Single Point of Accountability · Emergency Preparedness
logistics
strategic real · Seamless Integration of Services · Business Fulfillment Services
consulting estate · Multi-Market Portfolio Strategies · Call Center Support
Account Teams
capital project
markets management The Grubb & Ellis Global Logistics Practice delivers
supply chain solutions through senior account teams
sustainability incentives composed of multi-disciplined experts. Teams are
assembled from Grubb & Ellis consulting, logistics
and real estate specialties to address the client’s
unique issues.
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5. Deliverables Proven Global, National
Grubb & Ellis utilizes “Best Practices” including
and Local Experience
proven tools, processes and methods that Grubb & Ellis has a long history of high performance
maximize client value. The process typically execution. The Global Logistics Practice team
produces the following client deliverables: members have many examples of international,
multi-market, and local value added solutions
• Logistics Strategic Plan developed specifically for clients. Our clients include
• Network Optimization Model a broad list of the most prominent Fortune 1000
• Logistics/Transportation Cost Model corporations, premier transportation and third party
providers, as well as major institutional developers
• Wage/Labor Analysis
and investors. These solutions have included business
• Incentive Optimization
and logistics consulting, network optimization, project
• Site Selection Options and Solutions and facility management, land sales, build to suits,
• Foreign Trade Zone Analysis sale/leasebacks, purchases/sales, and landlord and
• Facility Design tenant leasing representation, with solutions ranging
from advisory engagements to transactions over
• Occupancy Cost Analysis
1 million square feet.
• Transaction Documentation
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6. The Grubb & Ellis Difference
Logistics and
real estate integration
Grubb & Ellis maintains a seamless integration among its complementary service lines.
The company takes great care and effort to leverage all of its resources on behalf of each
client. Rather than operate separately, the various business lines of Grubb & Ellis work in
concert to deliver the finest corporate real estate solutions.
Industry Leadership National Logistics
The Global Logistics Practice team members belong to Market Intelligence
and support the industry professional organizations, Grubb & Ellis is committed to market research,
including CSCMP, WERC, APICS, RILA, CORENET, NAIOP, with full-time market researchers embedded
SIOR, ICSC, and IAMC. The team speaks throughout the in all markets it serves. The Global Logistics
country and is quoted in the trade press as an industry specialty practice directs specialized databases
expert. The Director is a member of WERC ‘s Board of and sharing of information within this larger
Directors and will be President of WERC in 2009/2010. context. Group members have access to this
database, as well as responsibility for providing
Rigorous Training up-to-date local information. Grubb & Ellis is the
and Certification only firm that maintains data specific to logistics
real estate for the major distribution hubs in North
Grubb & Ellis is the only real estate firm that
America. In minutes, our brokerage sales professionals
certifies members of its Global Logistics Practice.
can provide our clients with local market data and
Attendance and qualification testing are mandatory,
identify logistics properties for use in establishing
and compliance audits are administered regularly.
budgets and determining availabilities. Regional
A rigorous schedule includes the full range of
and national intelligence is also available for
logistics topics, such as international and domestic
tracking broader market trends.
transportation methods, warehouse operations,
material handling techniques, regulatory compliance,
sustainability, cross-docking, information technology,
Consulting
network rationalization and modeling, logistics
Alliances
layout and design, strategic planning, site and The practice group has established relationships
location selection methodologies, and incentive with specialized partners to support periodic needs
and labor cost analysis. in such fields as material handling, facility layout,
warehouse management systems and highly
Best Practices complex network modeling.
Consistent best practice solutions and processes
are applied across the breadth of the Grubb &
Ellis platform. The latest technology tools for
communications, network and financial modeling,
site selection, mapping, and database management
are available in-house. Grubb & Ellis’ Global Logistics
Practice is run by a full-time salaried director. The
director’s role is to manage and provide focused
client advisory services.
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7. Grubb & Ellis has demonstrated Local market expertise, Specialized knowledge
an understanding of the nationwide footprint and expertise
complexities of managing and global reach Grubb & Ellis knows that it
Grubb & Ellis offers a unique must be the best if it is to thrive
real estate for a veritable who’s in the competitive corporate
combination of local market
who of leading domestic and knowledge, an unrivaled real estate arena. The company
global corporations and has nationwide footprint, and the strives to be the employer of
global expertise to serve the choice in the sector, attracting
built one of the finest reputa- and retaining respected industry
real estate needs of any client.
tions in the commercial real leaders and experts.
estate industry for developing Seamless integration Exceptional client
unique solutions for its clients. of a full-service firm service and partnership
Grubb & Ellis maintains a Corporate clients tend to stick
At Grubb & Ellis, our primary seamless integration among with Grubb & Ellis. The company
goal is to partner with clients, its service lines. The company is proud of the fierce loyalty of its
learn the nuances of their takes great care and effort to clients, many of whom have been
bring all of its resources to with Grubb & Ellis for more than a
company, and create long-term bear on behalf of each client. decade. This loyalty is born of true
relationships built The various business lines of partnership and concern for the
upon a commitment to Grubb & Ellis work in concert success of its clients.
to deliver the finest corporate
their business objectives. real estate solutions.
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8. About Grubb & Ellis
Named to The Global Outsourcing 100™ in 2009 by the International Association of
Outsourcing Professionals™, Grubb & Ellis Company (NYSE: GBE) is one of the largest and
most respected commercial real estate services and investment companies in the world.
Our 6,000 professionals in more than 130 company-owned and affiliate offices draw from
a unique platform of real estate services, practice groups and investment products to
deliver comprehensive, integrated solutions to real estate owners, tenants and investors.
The firm’s transaction, management, consulting and investment services are supported
by highly regarded proprietary market research and extensive local expertise. Through
Grubb & Ellis Realty Investors, the company is a leading sponsor of real estate investment
programs that provide individuals and institutions the opportunity to invest in a broad
range of real estate investment vehicles, including public non-traded real estate investment
trusts (REITs), tenant-in-common (TIC) investments suitable for tax-deferred 1031 exchanges
and other real estate investment funds. For more information, visit www.grubb-ellis.com.
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