KPMG has leased an office area of over 1,700 sqm in O3 Business Campus – an office complex which is being developed by Echo Investment. The company is to move into the new office at the end of this year. The tenant was represented by the Colliers International consulting company.

KPMG is an international chain offering professional audit, tax and business consultancy services. It employs 174,000 people in 155 countries all over the world. KPMG has been present in Poland since 1990, it has its branches in Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Katowice and Łódź. “O3 Business Campus is an example of a project which is characterized by its excellent location as well as functional and modern architecture. The building offers a number of user-friendly solutions, which translates into comfortable working conditions and makes it possible for tenants to employ the best candidates for individual positions. KPMG, a company which has opened the ranking of audit companies in Poland for four years and focuses on innovation, security and staff development, decided to operate its dynamic business in our projects. It is a source of great satisfaction for us and it obliges us to meet the most rigorous criteria – technical and business ones,” says Joanna Nicińska, senior leasing manager from Echo Investment"s Office and Hotel Department. “The office market in Kraków has been developing very dynamically and it offers a broad range of possibilities to tenants looking for modern areas which will be adjusted to their needs. A staff-friendly office area, the building quality and its location were of the greatest importance for our client in the process of searching for its new seat. Ultimately they chose O3 Business Campus – a modern office complex which meets all the requirements of modern tenants and provides them with development possibilities,” says Anna Galicka-Bieda, regional director at Colliers International in Kraków. O3 Busiess Campus is an A-class office projects which is located at the junction of Opolska street and 29 Listopada avenue in the northern part of Kraków. The project consists of two twelve-storey buildings with a total area of 57,000 sqm as well as two car parks – an underground one and a ground-level one. It has been designed in accordance with the latest sustainable construction standards and it makes it possible to design an area flexibly while focusing on the comfort of individual employees. Echo Investment S.A. is the developer of the project. Colliers International Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGI; TSX: CIG) is a global consulting company which operates in the field of commercial real estate. It has a chain of 502 offices in 67 counties and it employs 16,300 people. The company advises tenants, property owners and investors all over the world. It acts as a lease and sales agent, offers global corporate solutions, service of investment transactions and capital markets, project management, workplace solutions, real estate and asset management, property valuation and tailor-made market research as well as strategic consultancy. Colliers International is included in the Global Outsourcing 100 ranking, which is a list of leading companies operating in the outsourcing sector. The company was awarded for the 10th time in a row i.e. more than any other consultancy on the real estate market. The author of the ranking is the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.  More information is available at www.colliers.com. Colliers International in Poland has been operating since 1997 and it has its offices in Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, Katowice and Łódź; they employ more than 200 specialists. The company has received numerous prestigious awards in such competitions as: Eurobuild, CIJ Journal, CEE Quality Awards and International Property Awards. Colliers" most recent awards include: the "Outsourcing Star" for one of the most thriving companies in the outsourcing sector and the "Business Gazelles" for the most dynamically developing companies in Poland. More information is available at www.colliers.pl.