Corio N.V. is a former Dutch-based real estate investment company which owned and managed shopping centres. Headquartered in

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, the firm primarily consists of a portfolio of retail properties worth €7.2 billion in the Netherlands,

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, and

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. The company was formed in 2000 by the merger of the property funds VIB and WBN, initially also investing significantly in

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s and other

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. These activities have since been scaled back in favour of retail real estate. At the end of 2010 around 4% of Corio's holdings were in properties other than shopping centres, down from 47% in 2000. The company is listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and

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and is a constituent of the benchmark

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since March 2008. In 2015 Corio merged with the French real estate investment company

Klépierre Klépierre S.A. is a French real estate investment trust (REIT) and Europe’s second-biggest publicly traded mall operator. It was founded in 1990. It focuses on the ownership, management and development of shopping centers across Continental E ...

.Klépierre and Corio will merge on March 31, 2015
Klépierre, 19 March 2015

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* Real estate companies established in 2000 Real estate companies of the Netherlands Shopping center management firms Companies based in Utrecht (province) 2015 mergers and acquisitions Dutch companies established in 2000 {{Netherlands-company-stub