News / Why private equity is into logistics, and here to stay

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Private equity firms have made a series of notable investments to boost their exposure to the global logistics sector over the past year.

This has entailed deploying capital not only into physical real estate – such as Blackstone’s acquisition of a £473m portfolio of UK warehouses in October, helping the firm to grow its holdings of logistics space to more than 1 billion sq ft globally – but also into the thriving ecosystem of businesses that manage and facilitate global supply ...