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Dow Uses Real Estate to Attract and Retain Employees

A big part of the chemical giant’s strategy is “Don’t start by apologizing because our headquarters are in a small town, Midland, MI.”

Cafe inside Dow HQ Community area inside Dow headquarters, Midland, MI

NEW YORK CITY—DowDuPont created big headlines with the Aug. 31, 2017 merger of Dow and DuPont and the subsequent plans to split into three companies focused on agricultural, materials science and a specialty products business. The material science company called Dow is expected to have $40 billion in annual revenue. But along with the favorable news, in 2015 at the time of the merger’s announcement, DuPont publicly stated it was laying off 1,700 employees.

Amidst the corporate developments and challenges, the companies of DowDuPont continued to operate with Dow being the second-largest chemical company by revenue in the world in 2017.

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Betsy Kim

Betsy Kim

Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.

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