Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund Selects Goodman for Global Logistics Relationship
SYDNEY, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group (Goodman or Group) and the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) are pleased to announce the establishment of a global relationship commencing in Australia, which will invest in high quality, stabilised logistics assets. The key points relating to ...
Goodman European Logistics Fund (GELF) Notes Moody's Baa3 Rating
BRUSSELS, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman European Logistics Fund (GELF) notes the rating assigned by Moody's Investor Service this month. GELF was assigned a first-time issuer rating of Baa3 with a "stable outlook". Moody's noted that GELF's high-quality portfolio of modern prime logis...
Goodman Report Sees Significant Logistics Opportunity from the Rapid Global Growth in e-Retailing
SYDNEY, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- An e-retailing research report commissioned by Goodman Group (Goodman) has highlighted that online shopping now accounts for almost a fifth of all purchases in developed markets and is growing between 15% and 20% per annum. The growth rate in developing econ...
Goodman Further Expands into China Securing Build-to-Suit Facility for Online Retailer, Moonbasa and New Land Acquisition
HONG KONG, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group (Goodman or Group), the integrated property group which owns, develops and manages industrial space, is pleased to announce that it is expanding into Tianjin with the signing of a build-to-suit facility at Wuqing for major online retailer, M...
Goodman Interlink Officially Opens with Near Full Occupancy
The HK$5 billion warehouse sets the benchmark in Hong Kong HONG KONG, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group ("Goodman" or "Group"), the integrated property group which owns, develops and manages industrial space, has held an official opening ceremony for Goodman Interlink, a landmark w...
Goodman Completes Successful 2011 With Over 1 Million sqm of New Developments Across Continental Europe
BRUSSELS, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group has completed an extremely successful year with a total of 1,032,000 sqm of new pre-committed developments secured across Continental Europe in the 2011 calendar year, with the Group achieving record results in Germany and Poland. The numb...
A Successful 2011 for Goodman France with over 150,000 sqm under Construction
BRUSSELS, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group has completed an extremely successful year with a total of 1,032,000 sqm of new pre-committed developments secured across Continental Europe in the 2011 calendar year, with the Group achieving record results in Germany and Poland. Goodman ...
Goodman Germany Celebrates Record Development Success in 2011
DUSSELDORF, Germany, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Germany is celebrating its most successful year ever. In 2011 it signed deals for approximately 800,000 sqm of new and existing logistics space, and won over 50% of the market share of new development. The German team signed a record ...
Goodman to Develop 64,462 sqm Facility for Stanley Black & Decker in Tessenderlo, Belgium
BRUSSELS, Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group (Goodman or Group) today announced it will develop a 64,462 sqm turnkey facility for Stanley Black & Decker at Tessenderlo, in Limburg Province, Belgium. This is the largest industrial facility to be developed in Belgium over the past three ...
Goodman to Build 45,000 sqm Facility for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Hanover, Germany
BRUSSELS, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group (Goodman) has signed a major pre-committed development in Germany with Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles on a new built-to-suit production facility in Hanover. The external supply centre has an area of approximately 45,000 sqm and will incorpor...
Goodman Asia Wins Business Excellence Award
HONG KONG, Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman today announced that it has been awarded the Westpac Business Excellence Award for large companies at the AustCham Westpac Australia-China Business Awards 2011. The Awards were held on 27 October 2011 and celebrated the excellence of Australian fi...
Goodman European Logistics Fund launches Euro 400 million underwritten rights issue and announces Euro 800 million debt package
SYDNEY, Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group (Goodman or Group) today announces that Goodman European Logistics Fund (GELF or Fund) has launched a Euro 400 million underwritten equity raising (Rights Issue) and agreed credit approved terms for a new Euro 800 million debt package (the Refi...
Goodman to Develop 78,000 sqm Logistics Centre for Zalando
BRUSSELS, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group will develop a 78,000 sqm logistics centre for e-commerce retailer Zalando at Erfurt's freight terminal. The development is pre-let on a 16-year lease term. Construction will commence in mid October and delivery is scheduled for August 2012....
The Arlington Business Parks Partnership Sells 392,000 sq ft HQ in Reading and Announces Amendments to CMBS Facility
LONDON, Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Arlington Business Parks Partnership Fund (ABPP) is pleased to announce two new strategic initiatives for the Fund. -- The completion of the sale of Verizon's 392,000 sq ft office headquarter's (HQ) complex at Reading International ...
Goodman Strengthens China Development Pipeline, Securing Major Land Sites in Kunshan
HONG KONG, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group (Goodman or Group), the integrated property group which owns, develops and manages industrial space, today announced that it has secured two new land sites in Kunshan with associated development opportunities: + A 120,000 sqm site at Ji...
Interlink Reaches New Milestone with Topping-Out Ceremony
2 million square feet has been pre-leased HONG KONG, Sept. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group ("Goodman" or "Group"), the integrated property group which owns, develops and manages industrial space, today hosted the topping-out ceremony for Interlink, a landmark warehouse and distributio...
Goodman Expands Greater China Relationship with CPPIB
SYDNEY, June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group (Goodman or Group) is pleased to announce the acquisition by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) of the Group's 50% interest in the Hong Kong Interlink Project. Interlink is a development project currently being undertaken on a 50/...
J-REP secures Yen 1.9 billion non-recourse 3-year finance facility to fund the construction of J-REP Logistation Moriya in Japan
TOKYO, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- J-REP, a specialist provider of Japanese logistics solutions, majority owned by Macquarie Goodman Japan Pte Ltd, today announces that it has secured a non-recourse 3-year senior term loan of 1.9 billion Yen from ING Bank N.V., Tokyo Branch. The facility will...
Goodman notes successful IIF Unitholder Meeting
SYDNEY, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group (Goodman or Group) is pleased to note that the Goodman-led Consortium's proposal to acquire all of the ordinary units in IIF has been approved by ING Industrial Fund (IIF) Unitholders at a Meeting held in Sydney on 17 March 2011. Appro...
Goodman to Develop an Approx. 110,000 sqm Logistics Centre for Amazon in Rheinberg, Germany
RHEINBERG, Germany, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Goodman Group today announced that it has signed a contract with Amazon, one of the world's leading online e-commerce providers, to develop an approx. 110,000 sqm logistics centre in Rheinberg, Germany (near Duisburg). Amazon plans to create up ...