Safestore Holdings plc Directorate Change (8087G)
21 July 2023 - 6:45PM
UK Regulatory
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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
Frederic Vecchioli, Chief Executive Officer
Andy Jones, Chief Financial Officer
www.safestore.com 020 8732 1500
Instinctif Partners
Guy Scarborough
Bryn Woodward 020 7457 2020
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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