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Big Yellow - Growth in self storage estate driving massive property gains

February 2006

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Over the month, we met with James Gibson, co-founder and chief executive of Big Yellow, the largest provider of self storage in the UK. Big Yellow has recently enjoyed a spell of rapid growth with turnover having increased more than nine-fold to over £33m in the last four years, turning a small loss into a near £10m pretax profit. And its property development gains have been even more staggering, which in turn has fuelled a massive surge in the share price. But as we are learning, Big Yellow is heading for further bonanza returns and notes that self storage is still massively under-developed in this country, compared with the United States which has 39,000 stores and on the basis of storage square feet per head, is incredibly ...

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