- Providing ideal business space solutions involves 5.0 million sq m of commercial space on mixed-use sites that can be put to a variety of uses; manufacturing & light industrial, warehousing & distribution, data centres, research & development, and offices
- SEGRO’s development pipeline is one of the biggest in the UK listed property sector with a 604 hectare land bank and more than 395,000 sq m of space under construction at 30 June 2008, 85% in Continental Europe , including 193,000 sq m in Central Europe
- The Slough Trading Estate in Slough, UK is the largest estate of its kind in single ownership in Europe. The Estate is 486 acres - equal to nearly 326 football pitches and bigger than London’s Hyde Park. It providing 615,000 sq m of mixed-use space extending to 192 hectares, and is home to 400 companies in 600 buildings, supporting 17,000 jobs
- SEGRO owns six of the largest industrial estates in the UK including; the Slough Trading Estate, Heywood Distribution Park in Manchester, Woodside in Dunstable, Winnersh Triangle near Reading, Kings Norton near Birmingham, and Treforest Industrial Estate in Cardiff, Wales
- SEGRO is a good corporate partner, working with major multinational companies on sale and leaseback transactions that allow them to realise the capital tied up in real estate, most recently in a €197 million agreement with the German mail order company, Neckermann.de
- Success at meeting customer needs is shown in the fact that a third of lettings by rent are to existing customers and that 77 per cent of customers independently surveyed in th UK rate their overall satisfaction with SEGRO as ‘Good’ or ‘Excellent’
- Major customers include some of the world’s best-known organisations such as Mars, Thales, O2, Cisco, UCB, DHL, Heathrow Airports Ltd and Alcatel
- SEGRO combines local knowledge with multi-national expertise by bringing its core Flexible Business Space offering to customers across Europe through fully-empowered local offices in Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK
- SEGRO holds clusters of properties in key business locations in areas of economic growth, giving occupiers the flexibility to expand into other SEGRO properties as their business grows. This approach is in place in west London around Heathrow (thelhr.com), the A40 (www.thea40.net), Bristol (www.bristolworks.co.uk/) and the UK's south coast (www.them27.biz/)
- In the UK, customers’ property is now protected by monitored CCTV at more than 50 per cent of SEGRO’s holdings by area
- A sustainable developer, SEGRO was awarded a BREEAM** ‘Excellent’ for its Voyager Park project in Portsmouth, UK. Environmental best practice was included at every stage of the brownfield regeneration of a former gasworks, from building design and construction, to sourcing materials that minimise the impact of transportation
- The Company and its employees are actively engaged in the communities in which they operate. In 2007 SEGRO donated £630,558 to charities in cash and in kind. Every two years, SEGRO employees raise funds for a charity of the year. In 2006 Barnardo's received a donation of £120,000 and in 2008 SEGRO's charity of the year is Dogs for the Disabled
- Building a better environment for doing business is key to SEGRO’s offering and recent initiatives at estates in the UK and Continental Europe include the introduction of well-supported business clubs for occupiers and amenities such as café bars, restaurants, hotels, retail units and crèche facilities.
** Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method
Unless otherwise noted, figures quoted are as published with the latest financial results.