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USA & Latin America
The U.S. headquarters of RIM are composed of a campus-style complex of five buildings totaling 242,582 square feet outside Dallas,
Texas, housing certain sales, marketing, legal, research and development, customer service operations and administrative activities.
Operations in Raleigh, North Carolina have increased to a total of 94,354 mainly located within the CentreGreen campus. RIM leases
an additional 571,519 square feet throughout the United States, primarily for research and development. Sales and marketing and
distribution activities in Latin and South America are supported by approximately 34,000 square feet with locations in Uruguay,
Brazil and Mexico.
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MEA – Europe, Middle East & Africa
RIM operations in Europe are headquartered out of two locations in Slough, England comprising of 153,000 square feet in total.
Operations in Germany are comprised of four leased facilities totaling 111,863 square feet used for research & development and
sales. A number of other small offices are leased throughout Europe, totaling 99,000 square feet, which are used primarily for sales
and marketing activities.
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sia-Pacific
RIM has continued to expand operations in the Asia Pacific region. In China alone, RIM leases approximately 81,000 square feet,
including space for research and development in Beijing. A number of small sales-based offices are also located throughout China. As
a whole, RIM operates out of Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea, with a
total space of 205,680 square feet for sales and marketing activities and customer operations support.
Globally, RIM operates a number of leased and owned datacenters totaling approximately 89,096 square feet of space.
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