A good match? How T&T and CBRE compare

By Dave Rogers2021-08-13T05:00:00

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Following the announcement that T&T is selling a 60% stake to US giant CBRE, we measure up the two firms to see how good a fit they are

History

CBRE

CBRE can trace its roots back to 1906 and San Francisco on the US west coast. It was formed in the aftermath of the huge earthquake that year which devastated the city. It grew throughout the 1960s and 1970s, eventually becoming owned by Sears, Roebuck – better known as Sears – which became the largest retailer in the US in the 1980s.

At the end of the decade, the business was bought out by its employees, changing its name to CB Commercial, before buying the international arm of Richard Ellis to become CBRE in 1998.

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