Big Yellow Group
The Big Yellow Group is a self-storage company based in Bagshot, England.[2] The company is ranked the largest self-storage company in United Kingdom and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index and listed on the London Stock Exchange.[3] Big Yellow has the highest brand awareness in the sector.[4]
Type | Public limited company |
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LSE: BYG | |
ISIN | GB0002869419 |
Industry | Storage |
Founded | 1998 |
Headquarters | Bagshot, England, UK |
Number of locations | 74 (2019) [1] |
Key people |
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Revenue | £125.4 million (2019)[1] |
£135.6 million (2019)[1] | |
£126.5 million (2019)[1] | |
Number of employees | 347 (2019) [1] |
Website | www.bigyellow.co.uk |
History
Founded in 1998 by Nicholas Vetch, Philip Burks and James Gibson, the company has, as of 2017, 92 storage sites in UK,[1][5][6][7] 19 of which operate under the name Armadillo Self Storage. Philip Burks served as the property director of the company from 1998 to 2007.[8]
In 2007, the company was converted into a real estate investment trust[9] and later that year entered into a partnership with funds managed by Pramerica Real Estates Investors to develop another 25 stores in the Midlands, the North of England and Scotland.[7][10]
Big Yellow support the charitable sector[11] and have a related charitable foundation, the Big Yellow Foundation.[12]
In 2003 Graham Coutts sexually assaulted and murdered Jane Longhurst. Initially he kept the body in his flat in Hove, but then moved it in to a storage unit at Big Yellow in Brighton.[13] He visited the storage unit 11 times while the body was there.[13] Although he then removed the body from the unit, it was Big Yellow staff who noticed the smell and alerted police.[14] Big Yellow have permanently sealed unit C50, as a mark of respect to Coutts's victim.[14]
See also
References
- "Annual Report 2019" (PDF). Big Yellow Group. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- "Revenues up". Daily Post (Liverpool, England). 19 January 2005. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015 – via HighBeam.
- "BIG YELLOW GROUP PLC ORD 10P - London Stock Exchange". londonstockexchange.com. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- "The Self Storage Association UK Annual Survey" (PDF). p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2015.
- "Big Yellow Group PLC Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis". Real Estate Weekly News. 8 March 2013. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015 – via HighBeam.
- "Big Yellow is to get even bigger". The Mirror (London, England). 19 May 2009. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015 – via HighBeam.
- Big Yellow Group PLC (26 November 2007). "£150 million Partnership to develop up to 25 stores in the Midlands, the North of England and Scotland". Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- Martin Flanagan (17 December 2010). "Blizzards hit profits as Goals Soccer Centres miss target". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015 – via HighBeam.
- "Big Yellow Group Stores Up Profits after Increase". The Birmingham Post (England). 22 May 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2015 – via Questia Online Library.
- "Group sell-off". Daily Post (Liverpool, England). 26 June 2008. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- "Big Yellow: Charities". Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- "Charity Commission: Big Yellow Foundation". Retrieved 21 November 2020.
- "The Argus: Jane Longhurst - the Verdict". Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- "The Argus: Meet the man who caught Jane's killer". Retrieved 21 November 2020.