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The awarding of performance rights to Greg Goodman received a large protest vote.

Goodman suffers first strike against pay despite 75pc return

The industrial powerhouse suffered a 34 per cent protest vote against its remuneration report despite reporting “truly outstanding” FY24 results.

  • Larry Schlesinger and Campbell Kwan
Artist impression of a data centre in Artarmon, Sydney that Goodman will start building next year.

The property giant that will soon build more data centres than sheds

The launch of a number big turnkey data centre projects next year – including in Sydney and Paris – will ramp up the value of Goodman’s global workbook.

  • Larry Schlesinger

September

Australia’s most powerful people in property for 2024

Interest rates and construction costs are wreaking havoc and creating new winners and losers. Perhaps the biggest power shift is the fading influence of the CFMEU.

  • Nick Lenaghan

August

Greg Goodman at Goodman Group’s Rosebery head office in Sydney.

Goodman sets out its transformation from warehouses to data centres

Chief executive Greg Goodman says demand for data processing and storage is “next level” as he maps out the next five years for the landlord.

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  • Larry Schlesinger

May

Goodman Group CEO Greg Goodman says the company is enmeshed in the AI ecosystem.

How Goodman Group’s data centre dream could be super-sized

The next generation of data centres will require even more land. That’s something Greg Goodman says his group can provide. 

  • James Thomson
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CEO Greg Goodman.  The China market is weaker.

Goodman warns on China as data centre push gathers speed

Occupancy across Goodman’s China portfolio was 93 per cent over the March quarter, compared with 98 per cent across its overall portfolio.

  • Larry Schlesinger
The portfolio includes a 115,000 sq m Metcash distribution centre in Melbourne.

Rest Super, Barings snaffle $780m Goodman industrial portfolio

The Australian super fund and US investment manager have acquired 12 properties in Sydney and Melbourne, leased to the likes of Amazon and Metcash.

  • Larry Schlesinger

February

Goodman Group CEO Greg Goodman

$80b data centre opportunity lifts Goodman to new high

While the industrial powerhouse swung to a statutory loss after asset values fell 4 per cent, it upgraded both earnings guidance and its data centre pipeline.

  • Larry Schlesinger

November 2023

A multi-storey logistics facility in Barcelona, Spain which Goodman completed over the first quarter.

Goodman targets distressed sellers, eyes $50b of data centres

Chief executive Greg Goodman says the industrial property group is poised to buy sites from those that must sell, while its data centre opportunity is now about $50 billion.

  • Larry Schlesinger

August 2023

Goodman Group CEO Greg Goodman at the company’s offices in Rosebery, Sydney.

AI drives $30b data centre opportunity at Goodman

Significant growth in data storage, and AI in particular, means data centres now account for almost a third of all the company’s development projects.

  • Larry Schlesinger

May 2023

The growth in AI has been good for Goodman: Greg Goodman.

The ChatGPT effect: Growth of AI helps Goodman lift guidance

Nearly a third of the $14 billion of projects being undertaken by Goodman around the world involve the development of data centres.

  • Larry Schlesinger

February 2023

Leading the industrial charge: Greg Goodman.

‘High demand’: Goodman upgrades guidance as assets hit $80b

Greg Goodman says rental growth is the strongest he has seen in the industrial sector in 35 years as vacancy rates sit at near zero globally.

  • Larry Schlesinger

November 2022

In a good position: Greg Goodman.

Industrial land, secondary asset values to crash: Greg Goodman

Goodman Group CEO Greg Goodman says he expects industrial land values to fall back to pre-pandemic levels, after developers paid “stupid” prices for them.

  • Larry Schlesinger

August 2022

Goodman Group CEO Greg Goodman says the key to success is to “keep it simple”.

Goodman must jump higher earnings hurdles

After persistent pressure from proxy advisers and shareholders, Goodman Group is implementing tougher earnings hurdles for its CEO and management.

  • Tony Boyd
Greg Goodman: “The rental market will be very tight for some time.”

‘No vacancies’: Goodman beats guidance as rents surge

Chief executive Greg Goodman says rental growth is outpacing rising construction costs in its projects around the world.

  • Larry Schlesinger
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June 2022

One of the three warehouses - 1 Magnesium Place - acquired by Frasers.

Goodman offloads Melbourne portfolio on sub-4 per cent yield

The three new warehouses in Truganina, in Melbourne’s west, sold fully leased to Singapore’s Frasers for $61 million.

  • Larry Schlesinger

February 2022

Greg Goodman at the company’s offices in Roseberry.

Rental ‘squeeze is on’ as Goodman soars higher on ecommerce boom

Greg Goodman says rents are rising 15 to 20 per cent in places such as Los Angeles and Sydney due to a lack of supply to meet rising demand driven by ecommerce.

  • Larry Schlesinger

December 2021

Goodman’s Paris logistics project includes a huge solar plant on the roof as well as an urban farm.

Goodman and Lendlease ‘uniquely placed’ to lead on sustainability

Goodman will apply what it has learnt from its leading sustainable projects in Europe to Australia, Asia and the US as looks to drive action on climate change.

  • Larry Schlesinger

November 2021

Kogan.com CEO and founder Ruslan Kogan received an $8.4 million pay rise this year.

Revealed: Australia’s 50 highest-paid CEOs

The annual chief executive pay survey shows a drastic jump in average remuneration of 24 per cent and annual bonuses soaring by 67 per cent.

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  • Patrick Durkin
Goodman investors have described the salary package for group CEO Greg Goodman as excessive.

Meet wage slave Greg Goodman

Goodman chairman Stephen Johns would have us believe this is very complicated. It is not.

  • Joe Aston

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