Grubb & Ellis Company is one of the world's leading providers of integrated real estate services. As a full service brokerage firm, covering office, industrial, retail, investment Through its comprehensive global array of consulting, transaction and management expertise and solutions, Grubb & Ellis has established an innovative "continuum" of multi-level solutions for businesses and corporations worldwide, including strategic planning, property and asset management services, and transaction expertise in both corporate and investment real estate. With the collective resources of more than 8,000 people in over 200 offices in 30 countries, including its domestic affiliates and a strategic initiative with Knight Frank, one of the leading property consulting firms in Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific, Grubb & Ellis provides a unique "single point of contact" approach for clients that empowers them to approach commercial real estate issues seamlessly.

Grubb & Ellis - History and Tradition

Since its founding in 1958, Grubb & Ellis has prided itself on its dedication to client-satisfaction. From its beginnings as single office in Northern California, that dedication has allowed Grubb & Ellis to become one of the nation's leading commercial real estate services firms, with offices in virtually every major metropolitan market in the U.S.

In early 1981, Grubb & Ellis and GMR Properties of Jacksonville, Florida, merged to form the new Grubb & Ellis Company, a publicly held corporation. During the '80s, Grubb & Ellis grew rapidly through the acquisition of well-established real estate firms in the Pacific Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Texas and California.

In the early to mid-'90s, Grubb & Ellis undertook a major restructuring that refocused efforts on the company's two core businesses, Advisory Services and Management Services.

In January 1996, the company completed the acquisition of the minority interest in Axiom Real Estate Management, Inc., its property and facilities management subsidiary which originated in 1992 as an independently operated joint venture between Grubb & Ellis and IBM Corp. Now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, Axiom was renamed Grubb & Ellis Management Services, Inc. in September 1997 to more closely align management services with other service lines.

In early 1997, Grubb & Ellis launched a national affiliate program in which the company forms formal relationships with leading local real estate companies to expand into key markets where it previously did not have a formal presence. The company also formalized its Corporate Services Group and Institutional Services Group to help better manage client requirements for more services in more markets through a single point of accountability.

Also in 1997, to be more centrally located to its clients and to better position the company for further expansion into Europe, Grubb & Ellis moved its corporate headquarters office from San Francisco to Northbrook, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago.

In 1999, Grubb & Ellis continued its tradition of offering more and better services to its clients by acquiring the assets of Landauer Associates, Inc. This addition added another dimension to the company's advisory and financial services businesses. Now Landauer Realty Group and Grubb & Ellis can claim some of the nation's strongest research, capital markets, valuation and consulting capabilities in the industry.

Today, Grubb & Ellis is one of the largest publicly traded commercial real estate services firms in the United States. The company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: GBE).

Grubb & Ellis is one of the world's leading providers of integrated real estate services. Through its comprehensive global array of consulting, transaction and management expertise and solutions, Grubb & Ellis has established an innovative "continuum" of multi-level solutions for businesses and corporations worldwide, including strategic planning, property and asset management services, and transaction expertise in both corporate and investment real estate. With the collective resources of more than 8,000 people in over 200 offices in 30 countries, including its domestic affiliates and a strategic initiative with Knight Frank, one of the leading property consulting firms in Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific, Grubb & Ellis provides a unique "single point of contact" approach for clients that empowers them to approach commercial real estate issues seamlessly.

By challenging accepted notions of what a real estate services company ought to be, we are striving to build a world-class organization of real estate professionals whose work ethic and core values meet standards of excellence rarely demanded in our industry.