Safestore is the UK's largest self-storage group with 181 stores, comprising 130 wholly owned stores in the UK (including 72 in London and the South East with the remainder in key metropolitan areas such as Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool and Bristol), 29 wholly owned stores in the Paris region, 9 stores in the Netherlands, 6 stores in Belgium, and 7 stores in Spain. 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.