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Oakwood Forms Worldwide Alliance Network

With a formal network of partnerships in place, one of the leading providers of temporary housing has an even greater global reach.

By Sule Aygoren Carranza | Updated on November 17, 2008

LOS ANGELES-Temporary housing provider Oakwood Worldwide has broadened its reach into international markets with the creation of the Worldwide Alliance Network, an international affiliation that spans six continents. Through its partner firms, Oakwood can now assist clients who need housing in locations in which it does not currently have a presence.

The move formalizes the locally based company’s existing relationships with various firms around the globe. Oakwood–which was founded as an apartment developer in the 1960s and shifted to being a provider of furnished apartments in the 1970s, and then corporate apartments in the ’80s–expanded overseas a decade ago when it opened its Asia Pacific division. It opened a London office in 1999. Today, the firm has 20 properties in the Asia Pacific, 19 more in London and 22 in various stages of construction from Dubai to India.

“But as much as we’re growing and as much as those properties are meeting the demands of our clients in the cities in which they’re being built, we had been serving a number of key clients through a referral relationship,” says Gavan James, Oakwood’s senior vice president and general manager of operations. “For several years, we’ve been using providers that meet our standards in cities around the world that we’re not in. We’ve actually been doing this around the world for several relocation companies in the US.”

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