IWG is the construction and real estate company most prolific at making international expansions, followed by Panattoni Development and SoftBank Group. GlobalData’s construction and real estate foreign direct investment (FDI) company report highlights the current foreign investments made by leading construction and real estate investors. Buy the report here.
IWG has been the most active construction and real estate greenfield investor between Q1 2019 and Q4 2023, according to GlobalData’s FDI Projects Database. The Parent_clean company has been actively investing through several of its subsidiaries/company divisions.
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Greenfield foreign direct investment is when a company invests abroad to establish a new physical presence or expand an existing operation. Greenfield investments create jobs and/or involve a capital investment into the foreign location. Other forms of FDI, such as mergers and acquisitions, are not included as part of this definition.
The majority of IWG investments were in the shared office space subsector. In fact, 100% of its total foreign investments were in this subsector. It also created projects across a further 1 subsectors.
By business function, most (99.8%) of IWG projects were related to business and professional services.
The company has been active across ten world regions, mainly focused on Western Europe which received 38% of the company’s greenfield investments between Q1 2019 and Q4 2023. Its top three destination countries (by number of greenfield FDI projects) were the US, Germany and the UK. Combined these three countries account for 29.2% of its total number of construction and real estate investments.
IWG created more FDI projects in 2019 compared to any other year between Q1 2019 and Q4 2023.
Other leading FDI project generators in the construction and real estate industry include Panattoni Development, SoftBank Group, GLP Pte and Hipoteca 43 Lux.
The US is the leading source market for outbound construction and real estate greenfield FDI projects. The country accounts for 16.9% of total outbound construction and real estate investment projects. There have been 153 unique parent companies from the US that have announced construction and real estate FDI projects between between Q1 2019 and Q4 2023.
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