/ SMI is embracing the Asia Pacific market in its drive towards achieving a global presence and market leadership.
In doing so, SMI is continuing to build on a unique and successful business model that has already earned it a number of large, international portfolio contracts.
SMI’s Managing Director Juergen Kulka says: “Our unique, tried and tested method of operating has created a formidable service-delivery tool that responds to the increasing need of corporate business managers to achieve a simpler, more integrated supply-chain solution. Such a solution reduces complexity, lowers operating and administration costs, and enables greater budgetary transparency and control to be achieved.
We are now taking this model to the Asia Pacific region through the establishment of partnerships in not only major regional economies (including Australia and New Zealand), but also in countries with less developed facility services and management markets.
With regard to the future, we foresee a significant increase in global, regional and even multiregional, integrated facility-service delivery initiatives. As well as covering the classic non-manufacturing, office building environments seen in the financial services and hi-tech industries, such initiatives will spread out to the global real-estate portfolios of manufacturing corporations operating across a whole variety of sectors.
Our expansion into Asia Pacific is simply the next step in our global strategy to provide regional and global bundled service-delivery solutions. The global self-delivery structure adopted by SMI combines our unique regional and global account management experience and competencies with national and local service-delivery capabilities, and as such is the ideal tail-in for the streamlined FM structures of global corporate clients and global real-estate management specialists.”