Safestore announced the appointment of Simon Clinton as Chief Financial Officer. Simon will join Safestore on 11 March 2024 and following a brief induction and onboarding programme will be appointed as a Director to the Board at the earliest opportunity, and by no later than 31 May 2024. Simon succeeds Andy Jones as CFO following the announcement on 28 September 2023 of his intention to retire.

Simon brings a wealth of experience across the real estate, retail and consumer sectors and joins Safestore from Logicor, one of Europe's larger warehouse and logistics groups. He joined Logicor in 2017 as Director of Group Finance before becoming CFO in 2018. Prior to Logicor, he spent more than nine years in senior finance positions at Tesco plc.

He previously worked at Diageo plc from 2000 to 2007. Simon is a chartered accountant.