Colliers International
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| Traded as |
NASDAQ: CIGI : CIGI |
| Industry | Real Estate |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Headquarters |
Toronto, Ontario Canada |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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| Products | Corporate Solutions; Brokerage Services; Asset and Property Management |
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Number of employees
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15,000+ |
| Website | www |
Colliers International is a Canada-based global commercial real estate services organization with approximately 15,000 employees in more than 500 offices in 68 countries.
Colliers International provides a range of services to commercial real estate users, owners, investors and developers worldwide. Primary services include consulting, corporate facilities, investment services, landlord and tenant representation, project management, urban planning, property and asset management and valuation and advisory services. The organization serves the hotel, industrial, mixed-use, office, retail and residential property sectors.
The firm has headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. Annual revenues are over $2.6 billion In June 2015, it was announced that Jay S. Hennick was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Dylan Taylor was named President and Chief Operating Officer.
Ronald Collier and Associates commenced trading in Australia in 1967 having received an appointment to carry out a strategic review of the National Australia Bank's Melbourne properties. In 1970, three separate firms commenced trading in the cities of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. The eight principals involved, who had each known each other as former employees of Jones Lang Wootton, traded as the Collier Group following a meeting, which took place at The Australia Hotel in September 1976. A few years later, on the 18th May 1979, Colliers International Pty Ltd was first registered.
In 1985, American and Canadian firms joined Colliers international, and by 1986, its Asia-Pacific operations had reached 20 markets. In 1990, Colliers began to enter markets in central Europe and Latin America. In 1991 Jardine Matheson purchased 50% of the Asia Pacific business thereby being branded Colliers Jardine. In 1997 Colliers Macaulay Nicolls acquired 50% of the Asia pacific business by acquiring the shares of the original Australian shareholders.
In 2004, Colliers' parent company, FirstService Corporation, invested in Colliers Macaulay Nicolls, the predecessor of FirstService REA and the largest member of Colliers International. FirstService REA subsequently invested in several North American-based firms whose operations focused on various commercial real estate service specialties. Among these investments were:
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