Grubb & Ellis Lands Services Contracts

SANTA ANA, CA-Grubb & Ellis Co. has landed the latest in a series of seven major corporate services contracts in what the company is calling the best year ever for Grubb & Ellis’ Global Client Services business. The latest of these are a contract as facilities services provider for Northfield, ILL-based Kraft Foods Global Inc. and as global real estate services provider for Bermuda-based Ingersoll-Rand Co.

Under the Kraft assignment, Grubb & Ellis will serve as facilities services provider for Kraft’s headquarters in Northfield and for all of the food maker’s office and R&D sites across North America. Grubb & Ellis will provide a full range of facilities management services for 41 locations throughout the US and Canada totaling more than four million sf of property.

For Ingersoll-Rand, Grubb & Ellis will provide lease administration, strategic consulting and transaction management for more than 1,000 properties totaling 46 million sf of industrial, manufacturing and office sites located throughout North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. The agreement extends Grubb & Ellis’ relationship with Ingersoll Rand through 2013.