Under the Kraft assignment, Grubb & Ellis will serve asfacilities services provider for Kraft's headquarters in Northfieldand for all of the food maker's office and R&D sites acrossNorth America. Grubb & Ellis will provide a full range offacilities management services for 41 locations throughout the USand Canada totaling more than four million sf of property.

For Ingersoll-Rand, Grubb & Ellis will provide leaseadministration, strategic consulting and transaction management formore than 1,000 properties totaling 46 million sf of industrial,manufacturing and office sites located throughout North and SouthAmerica, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. The agreementextends Grubb & Ellis' relationship with Ingersoll Rand through2013.

In the last 60 days, Grubb & Ellis' Global Client Serviceshas won or renewed seven major corporate services accounts. DylanTaylor, who was appointed president of Global Client Services inJanuary calls the Kraft assignment "one of the most significantfacilities management contracts awarded to a commercial real estateservices provider in several years." Kraft chose Grubb & Ellisafter "an extensive review process," according to Bruce Windedahl,senior director facilities & real estate for Kraft Foods. Therelationship is being led by Jim Walter of Grubb & Ellis'National Accounts Team.