Manufacturing and Industrial Newsletter

CoreNet Global Strengthens Support for Manufacturing Sector with Advisory Group of Industry Leaders

FEBRUARY 2025 – CoreNet Global has announced the formation of a high-caliber advisory group, the Manufacturing and Industrial Advisory Board, to enhance its knowledge-based content offerings for professionals in the manufacturing sector. The advisory group includes:

Kristof Adam – Head of Portfolio Management, ThyssenKrupp
Jeri Ballard – Executive Vice President, Real Estate, Business Operations Centres and Corporate Travel, Shell plc
Christoph Forschner – Global Real Estate Portfolio Strategy & Analytics Lead, Nestlé Global Real Estate
Adam Hoy, MCR – Vice President, Head of Worldwide Real Estate and Facilities, GSK
Scott Kosswig – Vice President Real Estate & Performance, Stanley Black & Decker
Tom LaDue – Vice President Global Real Estate, Kimberly-Clark
Julie Mendola – Global Portfolio Director, Ford Land
Ritu Sharma, MCR – Executive Director – India, Boeing Global Enterprise Services
Tom van Duijn – Global Workplace Business Solutions Lead, BP Europa S.E. – BP Nederland
Mark Watkins – Senior Director of Global Real Estate, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Ignacio Errazuriz – Americas Real Estate Leader, Cummins, Inc.

Wish you could find – in a single place – all the latest insights and intelligence to help you more effectively manage your company’s manufacturing and industrial real estate portfolio? Now, you can. Introducing CoreNet Global Spotlight, a manufacturing & industrial intelligence newsletter.

The CoreNet Global Spotlight is your one-stop shop for the latest news, expert analysis, and market trends affecting manufacturing and distribution space worldwide. A sampling of the topics we’ll bring you includes:

Site selection trends and location announcements
Community relations and financial incentives
Opportunities in emerging markets
Transportation costs and infrastructure improvements
Supply chain and logistics
Construction costs
Risk mitigation for industrial property leases
Industrial real estate market trends
Business continuity planning

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Manufacturing and Industrial Real Estate

If you manage real estate and facilities for a global manufacturing corporation, then CoreNet Global is the right place for you and your team to find everything you need to solve your most pressing challenges in delivering production, distribution and other types of space – and to advance your career. We’re your professional home for Manufacturing and Industrial Real Estate.

It’s widely known that major corporations with large office portfolios are heavily engaged with CoreNet Global. But did you know that growing numbers of major manufacturing companies are too? Here’s a sampling:

3M Company
ABB
Arrow Electronics
BASF
BP
Boeing
BorgWarner
Cargill
Chevron
Cummins
Dessault Systems
Diageo

Dow Ford
GE Appliances
General Dynamics
General Mills
General Motors
Honeywell
Kellogg Company
Kimberly-Clark
Kohler
Land O’Lakes
Mondelez

Nestlé
Newell Brands
Procter & Gamble
Rockwell Automation
Royal Dutch Shell
S.C. Johnson & Son
Siemens
Stanley Black & Decker
Thermo-Fisher Scientific
Thyssenkrupp
Toyota Motor NA
Whirlpool

Manufacturing companies are increasingly active in our membership because in CoreNet Global they find the resources, educational opportunities and peer-to-peer networking they’re looking for, including:

Access to regularly scheduled peer-to-peer manufacturing end user-only roundtables, both in person and virtually
Access to Industrial Insights, a bi-monthly newsletter packed with news you can use on the latest insights and trends affecting manufacturing and industrial space
Engage locally: Network of 43 local Chapters and networking groups around the world
Engage globally: Unparalleled education and networking opportunities at annual Summits in North America, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific
Professional Development: MCR and QPCR designations.
Corporate Partnerships: Unbeatable network of more than 80 global corporations – many of them manufacturing companies, with which to network and benchmark

Question? Ideas? Support? Contact Tim Venable, Sr. Vice President – Research and Content Development, tvenable@corenetglobal.org