By Ramzi Abou Ghalioum, The Dallas Morning News

Nestled in its Dallas, commercial real estate brokerage CBRE is among the 500 most valuable publicly traded companies in the world, outpacing the likes of Ford, Kroger and Hershey.

It’s come a long way from the doldrums of the Great Recession, when it ended 2008 with a $1.13 billion market cap, its lowest valuation since it went public four years earlier.

At the time, the lion’s share of its revenue stemmed from transactional businesses, which included property sales, leasing, mortgage origination and development fees.

The company has since diversified its holdings, tapping the many verticals of the real estate industry to shield itself from economic downturns.

CBRE calls these ventures “resilient businesses,” which include facilities

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