Notice of Results

RNS Number : 2165L

Unite Group PLC

08 January 2016

 

Press release 8 January 2016

THE UNITE GROUP PLC

("Unite Students", "Unite", the "Group", or the "Company")

Notice of Results

The Unite Group plc, the UK's leading developer and manager of student accommodation, will announce its full year results for the period ended 31 December 2015 on 23 February 2016.

A management presentation will be held at 09:30 at etc.venues, 200 Aldersgate, St Paul's, London, EC1A 4HD.  There will also be a conference call and webcast facility.

Registration: to ensure admission to the presentation or to request conference call details, please confirm your attendance with [e-mail] no later than Friday 19 February 2016.

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For further information, please contact:

The Unite Group plc Caroline Hall	Tel: [phone]
Bell Pottinger Victoria Geoghegan Nick Lambert Elizabeth Snow	Tel: [phone]

Notes to editors:

About Unite Students

Unite Students is the UK's leading manager and developer of student accommodation. Unite provides a home for over 46,000 students in 138 purpose built properties across 28 of the UK's strongest university towns and cities.  The Group works in partnership with more than 60 higher education institutions as well as letting rooms directly to students.

Our culturally-diverse customers are at the heart of Unite's business and we aim to provide a home for students which supports their academic and personal success. Unite's properties provide students with high quality, well-located, safe accommodation that is close to university campuses, transport and local amenities. The rent includes a study bedroom, all bills, insurance, 24-hour security, fortnightly kitchen cleans and high speed Wi-Fi throughout our properties.

Founded in 1991 in Bristol, The Unite Group plc is a FTSE250 company listed on the London Stock Exchange, employing over 1,250 people. We are pursuing a sustainable growth strategy designed to make the most of the resilient nature of the student accommodation sector. Our aim is to maintain the strongest brand in the sector and operate the highest quality portfolio through consistent investment in and improvement to the operating platform, highly selective development activity, asset management initiatives and portfolio recycling.

In addition to Unite's wholly owned properties, we are also invested in and operate a small number of specialist funds and joint ventures with institutional investment partners, the largest of which is the £2 billion Unite UK Student Accommodation Fund (USAF).

The Group's charitable trust, the Unite Foundation, provides free student accommodation and a generous annual scholarship to around 125 young people in the UK who aspire to a degree but face the most challenging circumstances.

For more information you can visit Unite's corporate website www.unite-group.co.uk the student site www.unite-students.com or the Unite Foundation site www.unitefoundation.co.uk.

 

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