Hear From Real Estate Investment Trust Firm ProLogis Trust, as well as Subject Experts Jack McAllister from NAREIT and REITStreet Magazine at REIT Stocks Forum on June 20


RICHMOND, Va., June 11, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Real Estate Investment Trust companies and subject-area experts will discuss prospects and strategies at the REIT Stocks Form on Thursday, June 20. This online Forum, free to investors, is accessible at www.informedinvestors.com from 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. EST. Investors have the opportunity to hear directly from company executives and get their investment information straight from the source.

The Informed Investors Forum will have senior executives from ProLogis Trust (NYSE:PLD), speaking for approximately 30 minutes with PowerPoint presentations. Investors are invited to email questions to executives. The forum will also be archived on www.informedinvestors.com, www.vcall.com and www.investorconference.com.

The keynote speaker will be Jack McAllister, vice president for institutional investment affairs for The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). NAREIT is the national, non-profit trade association of real estate investment trusts (REITs) and publicly traded real estate companies.

In that capacity, McAllister serves as an advocate for the REIT and publicly traded real estate industry among institutional investors, including pension and 401(k) plan sponsors, endowments, foundations and these investors' consultants and advisors. In addition, McAllister has written on the performance gap between defined benefit and defined contribution plans, the need for portfolio diversification in defined contribution plans and the use of REITs in building optimal portfolios.

Also presenting at the forum will be representatives from REITStreet magazine, a monthly magazine published by Institutional Real Estate, Inc. a media and consulting company based in Walnut Creek, California. REITStreet provides useful investment information to the entire food chain of investors in real estate investment trusts -- institutional investors and their advisers, individual investors and their brokers, banks and the REITs themselves.

ProLogis Trust is a real estate investment trust that operates a global network of industrial distribution facilities. ProLogis owns 171.7 million square feet of industrial distribution facilities operating or under development in North America and Europe. Additionally, ProLogis owns, operates under lease agreements or has under development 369.9 million cubic feet of temperature-controlled distribution facilities, including 35.5 million cubic feet of dry distribution space located in temperature-controlled distribution facilities, located in the United States and Europe. This network of distribution facilities makes ProLogis the largest publicly held U.S.-based global owner and lessor of industrial distribution and temperature-controlled distribution facilities.

Recently ProLogis announced the grand opening of an expanded facility with Unilever and GENCO Distribution Systems in Palmetto Georgia designed to handle the distribution of all Unilever home and personal care products.

Informed Investors is the leading producer of online and offline industry-specific investment conferences for individual investors and a member of the WILink family of companies serving self-reliant investors.

About WILink: Since 1992, WILink (www.wilink.com) has opened information channels between public companies and potential investors. This year WILink will make more than 5 million investor introductions to over 4,600 corporate clients through services including The Annual Reports Service, The Fund Info Service, Vcall (www.vcall.com) Investor Conference (www.investorconference.com) and Informed Investors Forums (www.informedinvestors.com). These services provide investors free access to onsite and webcast investor events and company financial reports through WILink's relationships with over 204 leading financial media channels including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron's and Yahoo!Finance. For companies and mutual funds, these services enable compliance with regulation fair-disclosure requirements and provide visibility with investors at the precise point investors are making decisions.

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