UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

Current Report

Pursuant To Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 19, 2012

Global Growth Trust, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

450 South Orange Avenue

Orlando, Florida 32801

(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (407) 650-1000

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

On June 19, 2012, the board of directors of Global Growth Trust, Inc. (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) appointed Ixchell C. Duarte as a senior vice president and the Company’s chief accounting officer. Effective June 20, 2012, Ms. Duarte also serves as a senior vice president and chief accounting officer of Global Income Trust, Inc., a public non-traded REIT. Ms. Duarte has also served as a senior vice president and chief accounting officer of CNL Healthcare Trust, Inc., a public, non-traded company that intends to qualify as a REIT, since March 2012, and was previously a vice president with CNL Healthcare Trust, Inc. from February 2012 to March 2012. Ms. Duarte has also served as senior vice president and chief accounting officer since March 2012 of CNL Lifestyle Properties, Inc., a public, non-traded REIT, and was previously its vice president from February 2012 to March 2012. Ms. Duarte served as controller at GE Capital, Franchise Finance, from February 2007 through January 2012 as a result of GE Capital’s acquisition of Trustreet Properties, Inc., a publicly traded REIT. Prior to that, Ms. Duarte served as senior vice president and chief accounting officer of Trustreet Properties, Inc. and served as senior vice president and controller of its predecessor CNL companies (2002 to February 2007). Ms. Duarte also served as senior vice president, chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer of CNL Restaurant Investments, Inc. (2000 to 2002) and as a director of accounting and then vice president and controller of CNL Fund Advisors, Inc. and other CNL Financial Group, Inc. affiliates (1995 to 2000). Prior to that, Ms. Duarte served as an audit senior and then as audit manager in the Orlando, Florida office of PricewaterhouseCoopers where she serviced several CNL entities (1990 to 1995), and as audit staff in the New York office of KPMG (1988 to 1990). Ms. Duarte is a certified public accountant. She received a B.S. in accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In connection with her joining the Company as an executive officer, Ms. Duarte will enter into a standard indemnification agreement with the Company.

On June 19, 2012, the Company held its 2012 annual meeting of stockholders in Orlando, Florida for the purpose of electing five directors for terms expiring at the 2013 annual meeting of stockholders, ratifying the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered certified public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012, and transacting such other business as may have properly come before the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof. A total of 2,570,744 shares (approximately 50.4%) of the Company’s common stock outstanding and entitled to vote were represented at the meeting in person or by proxy.

At the annual meeting, the Company’s stockholders elected the five nominees listed below to serve as directors until the 2013 annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors shall have been elected and qualified. The voting results for each of the persons nominated are as follows:

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In addition, at the annual meeting, the Company’s stockholders ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered certified public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012. The voting results for the ratification are as follows:

No other business was transacted at the annual meeting.

Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information

The information above contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements generally are characterized by the use of terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “predict,” “believe” and “expect” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, our actual results could differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, the factors detailed in our prospectus dated April 19, 2012, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, and other documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Some factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, the following: risks associated with our investment strategy; a worsening economic environment in the U.S. or globally (including financial market fluctuations); risks associated with real estate markets, including declining real estate values; the availability of proceeds from our offering of our shares; the lack of available debt for us or debt on acceptable terms; the use of debt to finance our business activities, including refinancing and interest rate risk and our failure to comply with debt covenants; increased competition for properties and/or tenants; defaults or non-renewal of leases by tenants; failure to lease properties at all or on favorable terms; material adverse actions or omissions by any joint venture partners; increases in operating costs and other expenses; losses in excess of our insurance coverage; unknown liabilities of acquired properties; changes in government regulations or accounting rules; inaccuracies of our accounting estimates; our ability to identify and close on suitable investments; our ability to make necessary improvements to properties on a timely or cost-efficient basis; risks related to development projects or acquired property value-add conversions, including construction delays and cost overruns; inability to obtain necessary permits and/or public opposition to these activities; and failure to maintain our REIT qualification. Given these uncertainties, we caution you not to place undue reliance on such statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect future events or circumstances or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.