Mediaboss Marketing

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 06, 2014

Global commercial real estate services firm, Savills Studley, announces its lease negotiation for SIM Partners (SIM), a provider of local and social marketing automation technology, who relocated to 14,500 square feet of space at 30 N. LaSalle St. this month from Evanston, where its resided since its founding in 2006. After recently raising $8 million in Series A funding from River Cities Capital Funds and Jump Capital, SIM plans to double its headcount within the next year, already announcing a string of new hires earlier this month.

Tiffany Winne, Senior Managing Director of Savills Studleys Chicago office, represented SIM in the transaction and Vicki Noonan and Greg Tait of Tishman Speyer represented the landlord.

According to Winne, SIMs move to the Loop provides the company the bandwidth to double its staff to over 100 employees over the next year in more efficient space that reflects the companys culture and allows prime access to its target enterprise clients as well as a pool of top talent. Moving to 30 N. LaSalle St. will enable SIM Partners to be right in the mix with like companies and potential clients, simultaneously attracting the most desirable recruits. The location and modernized infrastructure seamlessly compliments the culture SIM has worked tirelessly to cultivate. Amy Cooper, Chief Financial Officer of SIM adds that both the move and plans for growth have been spurred largely from the spike in market demand for the companys Velocity platform, a SaaS-based tool that maximizes local, social and mobile marketing to drive customer acquisition for multi-location enterprise brands. As the market for local digital advertising is estimated to double to $44.5 billion by 2017, SIM Partners is well-positioned to remain one of the key players in hyper-local search. We are pleased with the office location and space that Savills Studley has worked with us to secure in the Loop, as we are confident it will effectively suit our future growth and evolving needs.

About SIM Partners SIM Partners Velocity technology empowers enterprise brands to maximize digital marketing results at a local level by optimizing location-specific content and business information to dominate local, mobile and social search results for hundreds or thousands of local entities. SIM provides a full suite of digital marketing technology, anchored by its SaaS based local marketing solutions: Velocity and Velocity Social. A social CRM tool and extension of the Velocity platform, Velocity Social enables large brands to effectively manage social communities for multiple locations on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and empowers locations to build their businesses with social media while ensuring each post complies with brand standards. SIM Partners has offices in Chicago and San Francisco and authorized resellers in Australia and Germany. For more information, visit http://www.simpartners.com.

About Savills Studley Savills Studley is the leading commercial real estate services firm specializing in tenant representation. Founded in 1954, the firm pioneered the conflict-free business model of representing only tenants in their commercial real estate transactions. Today, supported by high quality market research and in-depth analysis, Savills Studley provides strategic real estate solutions to organizations across all industries. The firms comprehensive commercial real estate platform includes brokerage, project management, capital markets, consulting and corporate services. With 25 offices in the U.S. and a heritage of innovation, Savills Studley is well known for tenacious client advocacy and exceptional service.

The firm is part of London-headquartered Savills plc, the premier global real estate service provider with over 27,000 professionals and over 600 locations around the world. Savills plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (SVS.L).

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