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Prologis
Annual Report 2021

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2021 ANNUAL REPORT

Shareholder Letter 
Shareholder Letter 

|  At a Glance 
|  At a Glance 

|  Financial Highlights 
|  Financial Highlights 

|  Leadership
|  Leadership

Prologis Park Tilburg, Tilburg, the Netherlands.

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Shareholder Letter 
Shareholder Letter 

|  At a Glance 
|  At a Glance 

|  Financial Highlights 
|  Financial Highlights 

|  Leadership
|  Leadership

Dear Fellow Shareholders,

As the world grappled with the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and significant 
disruption to the global supply chain, Prologis found new ways to help our customers, 
employees and communities. As our customers struggled to keep up with demand 
and build resiliency into their supply chains, we delivered best-in-class service and 
new solutions to help them compete and grow. We supported our employees with 
flexible work schedules, health and wellness resources and more. We gave back to our 
communities through charitable donations from the Prologis Foundation, our Space 
for Good program and thousands of employee volunteer hours. Above all, we delivered 
unparalleled value for our investors.

The company continued to deliver value to our customers through our global scale, 
best-in-class properties, and solutions that extend well beyond the building. We’re 
staying ahead of what’s next through investments in green building, renewable energy, 
innovation and logistics technology. This built-for-the-future approach underscores 
our team’s laser focus on the next generation initiatives that will embed even greater 
durability into our future earnings.

A Record-Setting Year

Driven by our unique portfolio and business model, 2021 was the strongest year in our 
company’s history. The challenges we faced—and met—during another difficult year for 
the world at large showcased what differentiates Prologis in the marketplace. Even with 
space in our markets effectively sold out, we were able to deliver additional space to 
help alleviate the current supply/demand imbalance.

For our customers, it is critically important to have the right space in the right places. 
More than ever, location matters. With vacancies at record lows and rising market 
rents showing no signs of slowing, our 1 billion square foot portfolio is primed to serve 
our customers’ needs. Consumer appetite for e-commerce continues to fuel extreme 
demand for warehouse space. We signed new leases with more than 250 unique 
e-commerce customers in 2021, which represents a high-water mark for our business 
and reinforces our position as the partner of choice.

Through our Research arm using proprietary data, Prologis generates unique reports 
that give our customers, the financial community and the public real-time insights into 
our business and industry. In 2021, our research revealed how e-commerce continues 
to prompt an urgent need for more space as our customers adjust their short-
term inventory strategies to ensure resiliency in the long term. Because we expect 
disruption in global supply chains to persist beyond 2022, we have anchored our future 
resilience on speed-to-market and flexibility. Above all, we continue to win because of 
our unique differentiators that underpin our continued growth and success.

Hamid R. Moghadam. Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman, Prologis, Inc.

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Unique Growth Drivers

Our Capital Deployment team is the best in the business and is especially adept at 
finding new and creative ways to expand our portfolio in the world’s most desirable 
logistics markets. Last year saw a record number of development project starts valued 
at $3.6 billion. Roughly half of those starts were pre-leased build-to-suits. We anticipate 
$4.5-$5 billion of starts in 2022.

Our irreplaceable land bank gives us enormous control and allows us to pursue scalable 
opportunities swiftly with a proven strategy for success. If built out immediately, this 
land bank would be able to support $26 billion in new starts. Our ongoing investments 
and creative approaches, such as covered land plays, bring opportunities that will 
benefit us for years to come. 

MULTIPLE DIFFERENTIATORS DEFINE ONE GREAT BUSINESS

Our Strategic Capital business is integral to our business model. Strategic Capital has 
seen incredible demand for our funds, which continue to provide strong returns. In 
2021, we brought on new, experienced leadership with the addition of Karsten Kallevig 
to drive additional growth across this crucial line of our business. In 2022, we anticipate 
our Strategic Capital revenue, including promotes, will top more than $1 billion—
another milestone. 

In 2021, we continued to scale our Prologis Essentials platform so that our customers 
can focus on what matters most to them: running their businesses. We offer services 
and solutions that span five core categories designed to meet the needs of today’s 
logistics customer: operations, workforce, energy, transportation and data/analytics. 
We’re selling solutions to existing and new customers in buildings we own—and 
buildings we don’t. 

When we introduced this business in November 2019, we set a target of $300 million 
from procurement savings and Essentials revenue. We expect to hit that target in 2022, 
with more than $225 million from procurement and $75 million from Essentials. Our 
Essentials platform is both a powerful differentiator and a significant revenue source 
over the long term. 

As we look to the future, we know that renewable energy technologies are not an option 
but rather a business imperative. Susan Uthayakumar joined the company in 2021 in 
the newly created leadership role of chief energy and sustainability officer. Susan is 
leading the company’s customer-focused sustainability and energy solutions business. 
Henrik Holland also joined Prologis to stand up an electric vehicle business to guide our 
customers as they transition their fleets from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

We are pleased to be the partner of choice for early-stage companies that are innovating 
across the logistics sector through Prologis Ventures. Established in 2016 and designed 
to build the future of commerce, to date our Ventures team has invested in more than 
30 startups across a broad range of technologies. We focus on companies that address 
our customers’ most critical pain points in supply chain and transportation, building 
digitization, infrastructure and more. 

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Investing in Communities 

Breaking New Ground: Thought Leadership in Action

Amid a global supply chain crisis, Prologis hosted Groundbreakers, our inaugural 
thought leadership forum. In tandem, we launched our Groundbreakers digital 
magazine. We leveraged our unique role in the industry and supply chain to celebrate 
the milestones of some of our most groundbreaking customers, portfolio companies 
and community partners. We focused on the industry players who have risen to meet 
the challenges of an evolving logistics and supply chain landscape and those who are 
poised to address the imperatives of the decade ahead. These insights were shared 
with thousands of people across 77 countries. Topics included the characteristics of 
enduring leadership, smart transportation, energy and workforce solutions. We hope 
you’ll join us for Groundbreakers 2022. 

To us, being a good neighbor means going above and beyond to deliver the services 
and solutions that make a tangible difference in the lives of individuals and in the 
prosperity of communities. We invest our time and resources in job training, renewable 
energy, zero-emission vehicles infrastructure and other collaborative efforts that make 
us the logistics provider of choice. We bring new jobs, new revenue and a greener 
logistics infrastructure to all the communities in which we live and work.

As an example, we expanded our Prologis Community Workforce Initiative (CWI). 
Founded in 2018 in direct response to our customers’ needs for a steady pipeline of 
qualified labor, CWI trains people for logistics careers in the U.S. and internationally. CWI 
has already served 13,000 people and infused economic strength into the communities 
involved in the program. CWI participants have access to a unique online learning 
platform and other jobs-related skills. We aim to train 25,000 individuals by 2025 with 
the skills necessary for fulfilling careers in transportation, distribution and logistics.

We’re building a sustainable future today. We made steady progress against our 
environmental, social and governance goals last year. We also raised the bar and set 
ambitious new goals, including reaching carbon-neutral construction globally by 2025 
and achieving third-party certifications for all new development and redevelopment 
projects. We continued to work with our customers to create zero- or low-carbon 
buildings and integrate sustainable features into their facilities.  

Groundbreakers launch, Prologis HQ, San Francisco, October 27, 2021.

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San Francisco Bay Area team (Fremont) volunteering at Alameda County Food Bank.  
Event occurred in compliance with local public health requirements.

Culture and Talent: The Bedrock of Our Company

Looking Forward

I have long believed you can never have enough talent in your company. After all, 
people want to be on a winning team. Our employees across the globe have been 
critical to keeping our business on the leading edge of our industry as we continue 
to create and deliver value beyond our real estate. We welcomed hundreds of new 
colleagues to the company last year and, despite the stress and uncertainty of the 
pandemic, employee engagement was higher than ever. Our employees have told us 
they feel safe, heard, invigorated and excited to be part of a company that leads with 
vision and the courage to pivot when needed.

I’d like to acknowledge the upcoming retirement of our Chief Financial Officer Tom 
Olinger in 2022. Tom has materially contributed to the success of the company over his 
many years of service. He has been a great partner and a key leader for our company 
for 15 years.

While Tom will be greatly missed, his successor, Tim Arndt, currently our treasurer, 
brings tremendous expertise and extensive business experience to the role. He knows 
the industry and our business very well and has played an important part in setting our 
financial strategy. This change is the culmination of extensive preparation and is part of 
Prologis’ ongoing leadership succession planning.

The quality and resilience of our earnings drivers and differentiators set us apart. We 
continue to drive strong organic growth and aren’t dependent upon external growth to 
achieve the results that keep us ahead of the competition. 

Our customers rely on a healthy supply chain and the real estate that underpins it. Our 
scale and reach put us in the unique position to deliver value to our customers and 
produce industry-leading returns for our shareholders and investors.

While 2021 was a record-setting year, most of the benefits from the current environment 
will be realized in the future, providing a clear runway for continued sector-leading growth. 
I can say with confidence that our best years are still to come. 

On behalf of our Prologis team, thank you for your ongoing support and confidence.

Sincerely,

Hamid R. Moghadam 
Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman, Prologis, Inc. 

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Prologis at a Glance

FOUNDED IN 1983

$215B

Assets under  
management*

1BSF

On four continents*

GLOBAL 100

Most Sustainable Corporations 
 in the World: 13 years

850,000

People employed under 
Prologis roofs*

5,800

Customers*

PLD

NYSE, S&P 500  
member, #71*

PEOPLE AND CULTURE

2K+

Employees in 
19 countries

31%

Diverse

* Data as of December 31, 2021

OUR GLOBAL ECONOMIC IMPACT

50%

Female

86K+

Volunteer hours 
since 2012

$2.2T

Is the economic value of goods
flowing through our distribution
centers each year, representing...

2.5%

of the world’s  
GDP, and...

3.5%

of GDP for the 19  
countries where we  
do business, or...

+15%

of global goods  
consumption. 

94%

Of employees:  “I am proud 
to  work for this company.”

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Prologis Park Hamilton, Toronto, Canada.

Financial Highlights

ASSETS UNDER 
MANAGEMENT
(in billions)

REVENUE  
SUMMARY
(in billions)

DEVELOPMENT  
VALUE CREATION1
(in millions)

2021

2020

2019

2021

2020

2019

$215.10

$148.30

$118.40

$4.76

$4.44

$3.33

$1,326

$942

$911

CORE FFO
(per diluted share)

DIVIDENDS PER 
COMMON SHARE

NET INCOME
(in billions)

$4.15

$3.80

$3.31

$2.52

$2.35

$2.12

$2.93

$1.47

$1.57

Please see Prologis’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and our Q4’21 earnings supplemental for additional detail regarding the financial information presented in 
this annual report and definitions and reconciliations of non-GAAP measurements, such as Core FFO.

1. Prologis’ share of estimated value creation from development stabilizations

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Senior Leaders

Hamid R. Moghadam 
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer  
and Chairman of the Board of Directors 
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Thomas S. Olinger 
Chief Financial Officer 
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Eugene F. Reilly 
Chief Investment Officer 
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Gary E. Anderson 
Chief Operating Officer 
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Edward S. Nekritz 
Chief Legal Officer and  
General Counsel 
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Colleen McKeown 
Chief Human Resources  
Officer 
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Michael S. Curless 
Chief Customer Officer 
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Board of Directors

Hamid R. Moghadam 
Chairman of the Board  
of Directors and Chief  
Executive Officer 
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Cristina G. Bita 
Vice President of  
Finance, Google 
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George L. Fotiades 
President and Chief Executive 
Officer, Cantel Medical Corp. 
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Lydia H. Kennard 
Principal, Airport Property 
Ventures, LLC; Founder and 
Chief Executive Officer, KDG 
Construction Consulting 
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Irving F. Lyons III 
Principal, Lyons Asset 
Management 
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Avid Modjtabai 
Former Senior Executive  
Vice President, Payments, 
Virtual Solutions and 
Innovation, Wells Fargo 
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David P. O’Connor 
Managing Partner, High Rise 
Capital Partners, LLC 
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Olivier Piani 
Chief Executive Officer and 
Founder of OP Conseils; 
Senior Consultant, Ardian 
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Jeffrey L. Skelton 
Former Managing Partner, 
Resultant Capital Partners 
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Carl B. Webb 
Senior Partner, Ford 
Management, LP 
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William D. Zollars 
Former Chairman, President 
and Chief Executive Officer, 
YRC Worldwide Inc. 
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