Slough Estates
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Slough Estates (operated by Trading Estates plc) is the largest trading estate in Europe under single ownership. Its parent company is Slough Estates Internationalwhich is a property investment and development company. It develops and invests in property located in the UK, Continental Europe and the USA focusing on edge of town flexible business space. Slough Estates PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Slough Estates owns commercial and industrial properties in the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and the USA . Among the sites recently acquired in the UK are those located in Bristol, Cambridge and Southampton. They have also begun one of the biggest developments in our history at the Ministry of Defence site at Farnborough, a few miles away from Slough.
The trading estate in Slough is 486 acres, equal to nearly 326 football pitches and is bigger than London’s Hyde Park and 400 companies are located there in 600 buildings supporting 20,000 jobs.
Unlike many other property companies, which have chosen to contract out the management of their assets, Slough Estates have always managed their properties directly. This has meant that they have remained closely in touch with our customers’ changing needs.
The estate is home to companies from countries including America, Italy, Japan, Germany and Korea. The first ever Mars Bar was made there in 1932 and 3,000,000 Mars Bars are produced here every day. The estate’s power station is one of the most environmentally friendly and technologically advanced in Europe and 30,000,000 litres of water can be stored in its reservoirs, pumped straight from their own artesian wells.
Nowadays businesses occupy over 700,000 sq m (7.5 million sq ft) of commercial property at Slough that are owned and managed by Slough Estates.
