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C&W DIFFERENTIATORS

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INTEGRATED SITE SELECTION C&W realizes the challenges you’re up against and understands the complexity of making huge capital investments in your physical assets. Our team of site selection experts will help you confidently choose the best site for your business needs with easy-to digest data analysis and local market insights. We put your real estate to work for you by making it a competitive advantage that mitigates risk, lowers the total costs of operations, and meets service delivery pressures. We partner with you to evaluate locations and identify the best site for your business using data-driven analysis and local market expertise. Our Integrated Site Selection methodology employs a hub-and-spoke model in which a single-point of-contact leads, strategizes and coordinates all relevant services. This model ensures transparent communication and the successful delivery of a holistic real estate solution. CORPORATE CAPITAL MARKETS Cushman & Wakefield provides corporate occupiers and owners with real estate solutions created and executed to yield optimum results by arbitraging corporate credit and real estate market underwriting. Our customized advisory services and financing solutions provide our clients with key advantages to meet their objectives. Our full-spectrum financial services platform provides clients with customized and integrated capital solutions for all asset classes. A deep understanding of the capital stack allows us to structure optimal strategies and negotiate the best terms for each transaction. Through long-standing relationships and industry expertise, we provide comprehensive advice and execution services to meet our clients’ needs.

SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION Our supply chain optimization team, led by Tim Foster, will work to identify the infinite variables around SES’s manufacturing, transportation, warehousing and product delivery requirements to optimize the flow of goods from production to final sale. Whether it’s optimizing SES’s network and inventory or securing the right facility in the right location, we assist you along the entire continuum of the supply chain. C&W’s sophisticated software evaluates and optimizes millions of supply chain components including product sourcing costs, inventory carrying costs and facility costs to design a supply chain with the lowest total landed logistics and inventory costs. MANUFACTURING PROGRAMMING AND DESIGN Cushman & Wakefield’s Sustainability Services offering provides a unique advantage to deliver actionable solutions by helping discover cost-saving opportunities, implement best practices that optimize building Cushman & Wakefield’s manufacturing planning group works with clients to transform processes and operations to maximize efficiency and productivity by re-planning how a facility works through the architectural process. Our group takes a fresh look at the organization of the manufacturing space to consistently improve operations and allow businesses to scale and grow successfully. This service is led by Jon Zimmerman who brings over 35 years of manufacturing planning experience. Jon has a gift to examine and understand what the best methodologies are for integrating all business operations cohesively. His involvement has proven time and again to be an instrumental part in the growth of many companies.

SUSTAINABILITY Cushman & Wakefield’s Sustainability Services offering provides a unique advantage to deliver actionable solutions by helping discover cost-saving opportunities, implement best practices that optimize building operational performance, enhance the occupancy experience and mitigate environmental risk. Cushman & Wakefield helps clients track and analyze sustainability KPIs, including energy, water, waste and indoor environmental quality with third party tools and real-time metering. From tenant spaces to whole building assets or portfolios, our services create ROI by boosting building operating efficiency and lowering operating costs. GLOBAL PLATFORM Cushman & Wakefield (“C&W”) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. Founded in 1917, C&W is among the largest real estate services firms with approximately 53,000 employees in 400 offices and 60 countries. In 2021, the firm had revenue of $9.4 billion across core services of property, facilities and project management, leasing, capital markets, valuation and other services. C&W has a strong entrepreneurial spirit and is known for its dedication to its clients. C&W’s mission, as published in its mission statement, always puts the client first, mobilizing and delivering vast knowledge, resources and talent throughout the world on behalf our clients, enabling them to make the most informed real estate decisions. The ability to marshal and integrate a wide range of diverse services from our own in-house resources is a substantial advantage that sets us apart from other real estate firms.

Cushman & Wakefield is rapidly becoming a leading partner for battery manufacturing projects. A few recent examples: • Our team is actively engaged with a company focused on production of battery materials and components – we are conducting a confidential multi-state site selection process for a $400 million (550,000 square feet) manufacturing facility. We are leading location strategy, incentives negotiations, and real estate procurement. • C&W recently won a multi-service, North American assignment for Rivian . The assignment will encompass a variety of services, including portfolio strategy, transaction management, business intelligence, tenant rep, lease administration, built-to-suit consulting and location and labor analytics for approximately 100 locations nationwide. • C&W recently advised Honda and LG on a $4.4 billion production facility to be built in Ohio. This included location strategy, site selection, and incentives procurement services. • C&W has been Albemarle Corporation ’s exclusive real estate provider for the last 2 years and recently executed a 5-year extension to assist with transaction management and site selection services across the world. • In 2021, C&W helped Enevate scale from an R&D

facility to a full-scale battery manufacturing facility including analytical lab, pilot line and production line.

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