Block Listing of Ordinary Shares

RNS Number : 1164Z

Safestore Holdings plc

24 May 2016

 

24 May 2016

Safestore Holdings plc

(the "Company")

Block Listing of Ordinary Shares

Application has been made to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock Exchange plc for a block listing of 400,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence each in the Company (the "Shares") to be admitted to the Official List and to trading on the London Stock Exchange plc. It is anticipated that the Shares will be admitted on 26 May 2016.

The Shares are being reserved under a block listing and will be issued pursuant to the exercise of the Company's Performance Share Plan and employee share options under the terms of the Company's Sharesave scheme.

When issued, the Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing issued shares of the Company.

For further information, please contact:

Safestore Holdings plc

Sam Ahmed, Company Secretary                                   Tel: [phone]

www.safestore.com

About Safestore: ·      Safestore is the UK's largest self-storage group with 119 stores, comprising 95 wholly owned stores in the UK (including 56 in London and the South East with the remainder in key metropolitan areas such as Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool and Bristol) and 24 wholly owned stores in the Paris region. In addition, Safestore has 12 Space Maker stores under management in the UK. ·      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 densest 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 49,000 personal and business customers. ·      Safestore (excluding Space Maker) has a maximum lettable area ("MLA") of 4.925 million sq ft (excluding the expansion pipeline stores) of which 3.435 million sq ft was occupied at 31 January 2016. ·      Safestore employs around 525 people in the UK and France.

 

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