As at 31 December 2009, SEGRO has property assets of £5.3 billion and around 5.9 million sq m of business space and a 430 hectare Land Bank (includes current construction and group share of joint ventures).
SEGRO is a multinational property investment and development company, headquartered in the UK, listed on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris.
SEGRO is focused on the provision of Flexible Business Space to a diverse range of customers and industries.
SEGRO has a network of 17 offices in 10 European countries, serving a diversified customer base of over 1,900 companies from small and medium sized enterprises to global corporations in a wide range of business sectors.
The Slough Trading Estate in the UK is the largest estate of its kind in single ownership in Europe. The Estate is 474 acres – equal to nearly 326 football pitches and bigger than London’s Hyde Park. It is home to 400 companies in 600 buildings, supporting 17,000 jobs.
SEGRO owns some of the largest industrial estates in the UK: Slough Trading Estate, Heywood Distribution Park in Manchester, Premier Park in Park Royal, Winnersh Triangle near Reading, Kings Norton near Birmingham and Treforest Industrial Estate in Cardiff, Wales.
Major customers include some of the world’s best-known organisations such as Alcatel-Lucent, Blackberry, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Post (DHL), Fiat, Ferrari, Harris Systems, Mars, O2, Tesco, Thales, TNT, UPS.
SEGRO was awarded Property Company of the Year – Industrial and Distribution Award in 2009.
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.
As a sustainable developer, SEGRO was awarded a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating 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.
Marly-la-Ville, one of SEGRO’s logistics park in Northern Paris, has been awarded the HQE (Haute Qualité Environnementale) certificate for a logistics asset. This certificate recognises the ecological performance of the building as well as the way it has been constructed.
The company and its employees are actively engaged in the communities in which they operate. In 2008, SEGRO invested over £820,000 in good causes through money, time and business space.
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, restaurant, hotels, retail units and crèche facilities.