Formerly |
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Company type | Public |
LSE: BYG FTSE 250 component | |
ISIN | GB0002869419 |
Industry | Storage |
Founded | 1998 |
Headquarters | Bagshot, England, UK |
Key people |
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Revenue | £188.8 million (2023) [2] |
£90.1 million (2023) [2] | |
£73.3 million (2023) [2] | |
Number of employees | 465 (2023) [2] |
Website | bigyellow |
Big Yellow Group plc is a self-storage company based in Bagshot, England. [3] It is the largest self-storage company in the United Kingdom and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index and listed on the London Stock Exchange. [4] Big Yellow has the highest brand awareness in the sector. [5]
Founded in 1998 by Nicholas Vetch, Philip Burks and James Gibson, the company has, as of 2021, 104 storage sites in the UK, [2] [6] [7] [8] 19 of which operate under the name Armadillo Self Storage. Philip Burks served as the property director of the company from 1998 to 2007. [9]
In 2007, the company was converted into a real estate investment trust, [10] 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. [8] [11]
Year | Revenue (£m) | Operating Income (£m) | Net Profit (£m) |
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2016 [12] | 101.38 | 117.86 | 112.00 |
2017 [13] | 109.07 | 109.02 | 99.51 |
2018 [14] | 116.66 | 142.56 | 133.54 |
2019 [15] | 125.41 | 135.56 | 126.50 |
2020 [16] | 129.31 | 103.17 | 92.58 |
2021 [17] | 135.24 | 270.77 | 265.19 |
2022 [18] | 171.32 | 704.39 | 697.27 |
2023 [2] | 188.83 | 90.14 | 73.33 |
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