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21/07/2023 09:45

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RNS Number : 8087G  Safestore Holdings plc  21 July 2023

Safestore Holdings plc

 

("Safestore" or the "Company")

 

Directorate Change

 

21 July 2023

 

Safestore Holdings plc is pleased to announce that Avis Darzins has been
appointed a Director of the Board and as an independent Non-Executive Director
with effect from 1 September 2023.

 

Avis has over 20 years of senior executive level and management consulting
experience in the retail, entertainment and media sectors, specialising in
customer experience, strategy and business transformation.

 

Avis began her career in the retail sector covering domestic and international
B2B and B2C sales and buying and category management before specialising in
large-scale change programmes.  Before joining Sky PLC in 2009 as Business
Transformation Director, Avis had spent eight years at Accenture, latterly as
a Partner. Avis was a non-executive director of Moss Bros Group plc, until its
sale in 2020.  More recently Avis has established her own business consulting
company.

 

Avis is a non-executive director and a member of the Audit and Remuneration
Committees for Marshalls plc and Grafton Group plc. Avis is also a Director
and the Senior Independent Trustee for Barnardo's children's charity.

 

Committee Composition

Avis will be appointed as a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees
with effect from 1 September 2023.

 

David Hearn, Chairman, commented:

"I am delighted to welcome Avis onto the Board of Safestore. Avis brings a
wealth of experience both from an in-house operational career and as a
consultant, supporting large organisations. Her expertise will be highly
valuable to Safestore as the business continues to expand."

 

There is no additional information required to be disclosed pursuant to
Listing Rule 9.6.13 in relation to the appointment of Avis Darzins.

 

Enquiries

 

 Safestore Holdings plc                         020 8732 1500

 Frederic Vecchioli, Chief Executive Officer

 Andy Jones, Chief Financial Officer

 www.safestore.com (http://www.safestore.com)

 Instinctif Partners                            020 7457 2020

 Guy Scarborough

 Bryn Woodward

 

 

Notes to editors:

 

·      Safestore is the UK's largest self storage group with 185 stores
on 30 April 2023, comprising 132 wholly owned stores in the UK (including 73
in London and the South East with the remainder in key metropolitan areas such
as Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds,
Newcastle, and Bristol), 29 wholly owned stores in the Paris region, 8 stores
in Spain, 10 stores in the Netherlands and 6 stores in Belgium.

 

·      Safestore operates more self storage sites inside the M25 and in
central Paris than any competitor providing more proximity to customers in the
wealthiest and more densely populated UK and French markets.

 

·      Safestore was founded in the UK in 1998. It acquired the French
business "Une Pièce en Plus" ("UPP") in 2004 which was founded in 1998 by the
current Safestore Group CEO Frederic Vecchioli.

 

·      Safestore has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since
2007. It entered the FTSE 250 index in October 2015.

 

·      The Group provides storage to around 90,000 personal and business
customers.

 

·      As at 30 April 2023, Safestore had a maximum lettable area
("MLA") of 7.990 million sq ft (excluding the expansion pipeline stores) of
which 6.124 million sq ft was occupied.

 

·      Safestore employs around 750 people in the UK, France, Spain, the
Netherlands and Belgium.

 

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