Cheltenham & Gloucester (C&G) is a mortgage services and savings account provider with some 165 branches in the UK. Cheltenham & Gloucester is a division of Lloyds Banking Group, which was formed in 2009 when struggling banks Lloyds TSB and HBOS joined forces. Still beset by losses, Lloyds announced plans to close the entire C&G branch network (and cut some 1,660 jobs). Lloyds later said it would sell the mortgage unit rather than shut it down; it will continue to offer C&G-branded services via telephone, mail, or from one of more than 1,800 Lloyds branches. C&G was established as a mutual building society in 1850 and acquired by Lloyds in 1997.

Weingarten Realty Investors operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT). The company engages in the management, acquisition, and development of real estate. It operates in two segments, Shopping Center and Industrial. The Shopping Center segment engages in the acquisition, development, and management of real estate, primarily anchored neighborhood and community shopping centers located in Texas, California, Louisiana, Arizona, Nevada, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Utah, Kentucky, and Maine. Its customer base includes supermarkets, discount retailers, drugstores, and other retailers. The Industrial segment engages in the acquisition, development, and management of bulk warehouses and office/service centers. Its properties are located in Texas, Nevada, Georgia, Florida, California, and Tennessee. As of June 30, 2005, Weingarten Realty Investors owned or operated under long-term leases, directly or through its interest in joint ventures or partnerships, a total of 350 developed properties and 3 properties that are in various stages of development. Its properties include 294 shopping centers and 59 industrial properties. Weingarten Realty Investors qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it would not be taxed on the portion of its income, which is distributed to shareholders, provided it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income. The company was founded in 1948 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Milestone Properties, Inc. is a commercial real estate company specializing in the ownership and management of shopping center properties. Milestone is on a program of acquiring well-located non-anchored strip shopping centers throughout the United Statesone in Arizona and the other in California. Anchor tenants include J. C. Penney and Rite Aid. (Concord Milestone Plus sold an Arizona property in 2007.) The company was established in 1986 to invest in commercial real estate. Its general partner, CM Plus Corporation, is a subsidiary of real estate investment firm Milestone Properties.

Warehouses De Pauw specializes in developing storage space for its clients. The company builds customized warehouses of all sizes primarily in Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, and Italy. Warehouses De Pauw also purchases and renovates existing spaces and then rents them to customers. The company chooses land sites and invests in buildings close to road, waterway, rail, or air transport access. Warehouses De Pauw has about 60 sites in its portfolio.

Development Securities PLC is a property development and investment company. Its principal objective is to carry out substantial, complex developments in a risk averse manner with a view to adding maximum value for its shareholders. The Company's major schemes under development have been forward funded, or the financial risk shared with a number of different institutional partners; such funding, quite apart from the significant reduction of downside risk to us, enables Development Securities to benefit in a material way from any strong improvement in specific letting markets.

Corporate Office Properties Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the acquisition, development, ownership, management, and leasing of suburban office properties. As of December 31, 2005, the company’s portfolio consisted of 165 office properties; 14 wholly owned office properties under construction or development; and land parcels totaling 311 acres. As of the above date, the company, through joint ventures, owned 18 operating properties, 2 office properties, and land parcels totaling 138 acres. As an REIT, it would not be taxed on the portion of its income, which is distributed to shareholders, provided it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income. Corporate Office Properties Trust was founded in 1988 and is based in Columbia, Maryland.

C&R is a co-investing property asset manager. This means that we manage property assets for funds and joint ventures in which we hold a significant stake Capital & Regional has properties in towns large and small. The company's funds co-invest in and manage UK property assets, including shopping malls, retail parks, and leisure properties.

SEA Holdings Limited is a Hong Kong publicly listed company with a distinguished history in the business community dating back to over half a century. The Group was founded in 1956 under the name of South-East Asia Investment And Agency Company, Limited, which was listed on both the Far East and Kam Ngan Stock Exchanges in Hong Kong in 1973. In 1989, S E A Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in Bermuda, became the listed and holding company of the Group. Its shares (Stock code: 251) are listed and traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Strategic Hotels & Resorts (SHR) is a busy BEE when it comes to hospitality. The self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), which is traded under the symbol BEE, owns or has interests in more than 15 upscale and luxury hotels (some 8,000 rooms) in the US, Europe, and Mexico. It also leases a handful of hotel properties from landlords in Europe. SHR also owns land for development, which is adjacent to existing hotel resorts. Affiliated brands include Four Seasons, Hyatt, InterContinental, and Marriott. Focused on the asset management aspect of its properties, SHR relies on third-party management companies to handle day-to-day operations at its hotels.

Taconic Investment Partners invests in and manages commercial real estate in the New York metropolitan area. It owns about 10 office, multifamily residential, and mixed-use properties totaling more than 7 million sq. ft. of space in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Coney Island. The company's Taconic Management division handles property management, leasing, and construction management duties. Founded in 1997 by co-CEOs Charles Bendit and Paul Pariser, Taconic Investment Partners has also owned properties in Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, DC.

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