Re. Property Valuation

Lok'n Store Group PLC 07 December 2004 7 December 2004 LOK'nSTORE GROUP PLC ('Lok'nStore' or 'the Company') Property Valuation As part of the Company's ongoing commitment to provide more transparency to shareholders, the Board of Lok'nStore is pleased to announce that it has commissioned Cushman Wakefield Healey and Baker to undertake a valuation of the Company's property portfolio. The valuation will provide further guidance to shareholders as to the value of the underlying property assets as operational self-storage businesses. The Board does not intend to include this value in the balance sheet. The valuation will include the freeholds and the leasehold properties. The results of the valuation will be announced with the Company's interim results in April 2005. The valuation has been commissioned following a year of growth in terms of the number of properties and a continuing improved performance of the 19 operational stores. It follows the last valuation of the Company's 8 freehold properties held on 31st January 2004 at £20.1m (Net Book Value: £9.9m). Ends For further information, call: Andrew Jacobs, CEO Lok'nStore Tel: 020 8547 2288 Ray Davies, Finance Director Lok'nStore Tel: 020 8547 2288 Jonathon Brill/ Billy Clegg Financial Dynamics Tel: 020 7831 3113 Notes to editors Lok'nStore Group plc is one of the leading players in the fast growing self-storage market with 20 self storage premises in the South East of England with a total lettable capacity of up to 840,000 sq ft. In the last financial year the Company turned over £6.6m up 18% year on year (2003: £5.6m). It had 8 established '250 week' stores which generated EBITDA margins of 48.2% and grew by 17.5% year on year. At the last year end, Lok'nStore had 5,566 customers. Last year, the Company acquired or opened three stores at Eastbourne, Tonbridge and Farnborough, as well as acquiring the freehold of its existing Poole operation. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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