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]

Big Yellow Group plc
TypePublic limited company
LSE: BYG
ISINGB0002869419
IndustryStorage
Founded1998 (1998)
HeadquartersBagshot, England, UK
Number of locations
74 (2019) [1]
Key people
Revenue£125.4 million (2019)[1]
£135.6 million (2019)[1]
£126.5 million (2019)[1]
Number of employees
347 (2019) [1]
Websitewww.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
  1. "Annual Report 2019" (PDF). Big Yellow Group. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  2. "Revenues up". Daily Post (Liverpool, England). 19 January 2005. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015 – via HighBeam.
  3. "BIG YELLOW GROUP PLC ORD 10P - London Stock Exchange". londonstockexchange.com. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  4. "The Self Storage Association UK Annual Survey" (PDF). p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2015.
  5. "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.
  6. "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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. "Big Yellow Group Stores Up Profits after Increase". The Birmingham Post (England). 22 May 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2015 – via Questia Online Library.
  10. "Group sell-off". Daily Post (Liverpool, England). 26 June 2008. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  11. "Big Yellow: Charities". Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  12. "Charity Commission: Big Yellow Foundation". Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  13. "The Argus: Jane Longhurst - the Verdict". Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  14. "The Argus: Meet the man who caught Jane's killer". Retrieved 21 November 2020.


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