Mission Our purpose: To add stakeholder value by developing profitable and sustainable spaces that allow individuals, businesses and local communities to thrive.
Our business model: We acquire, develop and operate sustainable self storage assets in attractive European markets
Our strategy: Optimising trading performance of existing portfolio Maintaining a strong and flexible capital structure Selective portfolio management and expansion opportunities
How we ensure sustainability: Our people - provide a great place to work Our customers - deliver a great customer experience and help customers live and grow sustainably Our community - benefit local communities Our environment - protect the planet from our activities; managing risks to our business from climate change
Our values, created by our store teams, are at the heart of everything we do. We Love Customers We Lead the Way We Have Great People We Dare to be Different We Get It
Description Safestore is the UK's largest self-storage group with 202 stores, comprising 133 wholly owned stores in the UK (including 50 in London and the South East with the remainder in key metropolitan areas such as Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool and Bristol), 30 wholly owned stores in the Paris region, 13 stores in the Netherlands, 6 stores in Belgium, 12 stores in Spain and 7 stores in Germany.
Safestore was founded in the UK in 1998. It acquired the French business “Une Pièce en Plus” in 2004 which was founded in 1998 by the current Safestore Group CEO Frederic Vecchioli.
Safestore is part of the FTSE 250. We believe that engaged colleagues, who feel valued by our business, are the foundation of our customer-focused culture. We know our people as individuals, and show respect for each other, enabling everyone to have a voice so that they can bring their full, unique selves to work. We are exceptionally proud that, in 2021 and 2024, we were awarded the prestigious 'Investors in People’ Platinum accreditation, placing us in the top 2% of accredited organisations in the UK.
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Our colleagues and customers make Safestore a great place to work. If you get a buzz from delivering exceptional customer service and talking to people, you’ll love working at Safestore.
Safestore has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 228 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Safestore employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).
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Overall, 76% of employees would recommend working at Safestore to a friend. This is based on 231 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
59% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Safestore as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Safestore.