Aalst, 13 September 2007 – Tupperware is the world’s leading producer of food storage, preparation and serving products. IIG relocated the old production facility of 15,500 sq. m to a new tailor-made facility of 6,300 sq. m ground surface.
IIG’s engineers designed the complete automation within the plant, connecting the product flows directly to the neighbouring European Distribution Centre, reducing labour intensive manipulation. This includes a conveyer belt of approximately 500 meters from the production facility directly inside the warehouse.
IIG was also in charge of the total move from the old to the new facility up to the installation and start-up of the machines. The fully operational facility opened in September 2007.
Aalst, 25 January 2008 – Immo Industry Group (IIG) today officially inaugurated its new headquarters in Aalst. With 4.000 m² of office space, the facility houses IIG and its associated branches, Immo Industry Logistics and Process Solutions (IILPS), Immo Industry Facility and Property Management (IIFPM) and Immo Industry Contracting (IIC).
The building was selected in order to accommodate IIG’s current staff. Furthermore, it will also provide sufficient space for new staff members IIG intends employing in the near future.
“The new headquarters are part of our growth strategy”, says Filip Schelfhout, IIG CEO. “Our previous offices in Aalst had become too small. We are a fast growing company and we plan to double our workforce at HQ this year alone. In order to meet our growth requirements, we had to move to larger offices. With this new facility, we have sufficient and suitable office space for our staff for the foreseeable future.”
The new headquarters were inaugurated by Belgian Foreign Affairs minister Karel De Gucht in the presence of prominent national and international guests. At the inauguration, Aalst councillor Ann Van de Steen handed a cheque for € 2.500 to the organisation “People help People”, a local ngo that assists the needy in the Aalst region.
Aalst, 13 December 2007 – Immo Industry Group (IIG) and its Slovakian partner, J&T Real Estate, have been given the Best Warehousing and Logistics Development of the Year award. The prize, awarded by the authoritative Central and Eastern European Construction and Investment Journal (CiJ), recognises the overall standard of the IIG-J&T Trnava Logistics Park in Slovakia.
Strategically situated in Central Europe and close to a major Peugeot - Citroën assembly plant, the Trnava Logistics Park has a total area of 180.000 m². It is ideally located for distribution, logistics, production and assembling activities, as it offers immediate access to a major European motorway. Companies at the IIG and J&T Trnava Logistics Park include Gefco, Datalogic, Valeo and Faurecia. Smart, tailor-made industrial fully operational real estate units from as little as 1.000 m² can be executed to the most recent technical specifications and in very short time frames. The letting agents are Cushman & Wakefield, CBRE and Colliers.
The award was presented during a ceremony at Bratislava’s Radisson Carlton hotel. The jury mentioned that, among others, the IIG-J&T project was of a very high standard. Accepting the award, IIG Slovakia General Manager Radovan Brtiš and J&T Technical Director Pavel Pelikán said they were very honoured and pleased with the jury’s recognition.
ECI Poland
Aalst, 28 February 2008 – IIG has started construction works on the ECI project in Bielsko Biala near Katowice in Southern Poland. IIG is building a production and warehousing facility for the global wire harness manufacturer that has already been designed to cater for ECI’s anticipated growth.
Electrical Components International (ECI) produces wire harnesses and leads, complex harness sub-assemblies, radiant glass heaters and power cords, fitted with connectors and plugs. Employing more than 14,000 people, its products are found in the top brands worldwide in, among others, home appliances, transportation equipment, heaters, ventilators and air conditioning products.
ECI asked IIG to build a production and warehousing facility designed to fully optimize its current production capacity and to accommodate the company’s anticipated growth. Furthermore, due to stringent quality requirements imposed by ECI’s blue chip clients, IIG had to ensure that the highest work floor standards would apply.
IIG is building a 10,700 sq. m combined production and storage facility that can easily be expanded by another 3,500 sq. m. In order to allow wire or cables to be cut to specific lengths and finished with connectors or plugs, the building is equipped with flexible compressed air piping and bus bar. IIG’s design includes 2,100 sq. m of high standard offices and a car park. When fully operational, the facility will employ about 670 staff members.
A new steel assembly plant in the heart of Europe Immo Industry Group (IIG) announces the commissioning and start-up of its steel assembly plant, strategically located in the IIG Industrial Park Satu Mare in northern Romania. Operating under the name Immo Industry Steel Assembly (IISA), this state-of-the art 6,500 sq. m production facility will deliver steel structural and other parts to clients throughout Europe, ensuring control of supply and quality in a pressured market. In addition to supplying IIG projects, the plant offers a unique package of integrated design, manufacturing and site installation services to clients in all sectors of real estate, construction and industry, with an output at full capacity of over 1,200 tons of steel parts per month. Click here to discover the unrivalled capabilities and unique advantages of Immo Industry Steel Assembly and to ask IISA’s experienced engineering team to find solutions to your requirements. |
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IIG’s CEO in talks with Belgian, Ukrainian premiers Furthest left: The Prime Minister of Belgium, Mr Yves Leterme Furthest right: The CEO of IIG, Mr Ronald Everaert IIG co-hosted a Belgian Night at the European Business Association (EBA) in Kiev on 31 October. As principal sponsor of the event, IIG welcomed the Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme, the Belgian Economy Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne, the Belgian Ambassador to Ukraine Marc Vinck and some 250 other guests to the Cosmopolite brasserie for a memorable evening of socialising and networking. Earlier in the day, IIG’s CEO Ronald Everaert was one of a small group of senior representatives of Belgian companies thriving in Ukraine invited to join Mr Leterme and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Timoshenko to discuss ways to improve bilateral business relations. Ronald highlighted the difficulty faced by Western companies in obtaining permits within a reasonable timescale. This will be one of a number of issues that a working commission to be established between the Belgian and Ukrainian governments will address shortly. Further information and photographs from the EBA Belgian Night can be found here. |
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Success in Ukraine leads to new office spaceIIG’s emergence as a dominant developer of tailor-made industrial and logistics real estate in Ukraine has resulted in a move to new and much larger office space to accommodate its growth. In addition to the move to the new office, which was opened officially in a ceremony on 8 October, IIG has increased the number of skilled and experienced real estate professionals working from Kiev, whilst the recruitment of engineers and site personnel continues. Construction works are underway on IIG’s projects in its Kiev industrial parks, and several new projects are currently in the pipeline. The five strategically located IIG-Aladdin industrial parks in Kiev at different stages of development all benefit from excellent access to the major highways linking the city to the rest of Ukraine, Central & Eastern Europe and CIS countries, and they represent the most cost and time efficient possibilities for clients seeking tailor-made industrial and logistics real estate in the region. |
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IIG opens offices in St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-DonAugust 2008 - IIG and its joint venture partner Rostik Group of Russia announce the establishment of new offices in St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don. With this expansion, IIG now has a strategic presence on both the East-West and North-South Russian transport corridors. As Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg has quickly become an important hub for the booming automotive industry in Russia, with major OEMs and Tier 1 and 2 suppliers moving into the region. IIG’s industrial park in the Shushary area of the city represents an excellent opportunity for industrial and logistics companies moving to the area. Rostov-on-Don, as one of Russia’s eleven “Millionniki” cities of 1 to 1.5 million inhabitants and a key business centre, offers great opportunities in a rapidly developing market. Rising income levels across the region are fuelling a strong retail sector, and this is driving the evolution of the logistics market, with rising demand for modern facilities to replace obsolete warehouse stock. IIG’s industrial park Rostov-on-Don offers a highly accessible location for tailor-made industrial real estate immediately adjacent to the highway linking the city to Moscow. Follow these links to discover more about IIG’s industrial parks in St. Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don. |
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IIG-sponsored Criterium welcomes top Tour de France riders Sastre, Cavendish and Freire in IIG’s VIP tent on the Aalst market place This year, the list of participants was unsurpassed, and the participating sportsmen belong to the absolute elite of professional cycling today. Carlos Sastre, winner of the yellow jersey in the 2008 Tour de France was present, as was Óskar Freire, green jersey of the same Tour, and king of sprint Mark Cavendish. IIG sponsors this event as part of a recruitment strategy. IIG is growing fast, and we are still looking for quite some people. As a result of our recruitment campaign at the Criterium event, the iig.org website, and especially the careers pages, received the highest visitor rates to date. Our recruitment drive continues, and we still have a number of vacancies available at our headquarters and at our offices across Europe. |
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 Belgian Champion 2008 Jürgen Roelandts rides in front of an IIG job promotion banner |
 Minister of State Herman De Croo, Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme and Governor of East-Flanders André Denys each receive an IIG cycling jersey from IIG Executive Chairman Filip Schelfhout. |
IIG strengthens top management |
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IIG closes third private equity fund for project delivery at EUR 25 million July 2008 - IIG has closed its third private equity fund of the year at EUR 25 million. IIG’s fourth (closed end) private equity fund for 2008, also for EUR 25 million, is scheduled to be fully closed by the end of August. These private equity funds are used to co-finance IIG’s projects in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and other CIS countries. Private investors have already invested EUR 75 million in IIG’s funds this year. With the closure of the fourth fund, total private investment will reach EUR 100 million by the end of August. |
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IIG extends Schnellecke's facility at the IIG-J&T Industrial Park DNV May 2008 - IIG and its Slovak corporate partner J&T are constructing a 3,600 sq. m extension to Schnellecke’s facility at the IIG-J&T Industrial Park DNV in Bratislava, Slovakia. The extension follows Schnellecke’s acquisition of an additional supplier contract for the neighbouring Volkswagen assembly plant. Schnellecke already has a 9,400 sq. m assembly and logistics facility at the IIG-J&T Industrial Park DNV. The possibility to extend facilities is a key advantage of IIG’s tailor-made approach to industrial and logistics real estate, as it gives clients the flexibility to expand their operations as they become established in new markets. |
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IIG hands over HTS’ extension at the IIG-J&T Industrial Park DNV May 2008 - IIG and its Slovak corporate partner J&T have handed over a 1,700 sq. m extension to the HTS facility at the IIG-J&T Industrial Park DNV in Bratislava, Slovakia. The total size of HTS’ facility is 4,500 sq. m, and the building features a high capacity cooling system to cope with the heat output of their industrial process. The IIG-J&T Industrial Park DNV is strategically located close to the Austrian, Hungarian and Czech borders, and features excellent road and rail links, making the park very attractive to companies from a variety of industrial and logistics sectors. As the park is neighbour to VW’s Slovak production plant, a number of automotive suppliers have benefited from reduced supply chain management costs by the possibility of making just-in-time deliveries to their customer. |
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IIG successfully closes two private equity funds for project delivery April 2008. - IIG recently completed the fundraising of two funds, each with a total value of EUR 25 million. The first fund, named Nautilus, will be used to fund projects in Western and Central Europe and Turkey. A second one, called Ulitka (Nautilus translated into Russian), will be used for CIS projects. These funds give IIG the financial strength to control its growth. Due to the success of IIG’s funds and the suitability of the fund structures to meeting the needs of investors, IIG will continue to explore this model for co-financing projects. |
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IIG meets the automotive trade in Detroit April 2008. - The Society of Automotive Engineering and Executives held its annual event in Detroit, Michigan on 15-16 April. About 300 companies demonstrated their latest technologies, the participants including some of IIG’s clients, such as BMW, Visteon, Rockwell Automation and Valeo. IIG-USA General Manager Steve Baeckelandt met with a number of delegates, informing them of them of how IIG can help them to take advantage of market opportunities in CEE, Russia and CIS. |
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