Slough Trading Estate

Slough Trading Estate:
aerial view looking north-west

The Slough Trading Estate, founded in Slough in Buckinghamshire in 1920, was an early business park in Britain. According to the estate's owners and operators, Segro,[1] Slough Trading Estate consists of 486 acres (1.97 km2) of commercial property in Slough and provides 7,500,000 sq ft (700,000 m2) of accommodation to 500 businesses and has a working population of about 20,000 people. Slough Trading Estate is the largest industrial estate in single private ownership in Europe.[2] There are over 600 buildings. The estate is home to 400 tenants from countries including the US, France, Italy, Japan, Germany and South Korea. Companies using the park include Fiat Group Automobiles, Centrica, Hibu, Electrolux, GSK, Mars Confectionery, Akzo Nobel, Virgin Media, O2, AxFlow UK, the datacentre operator Network-i and OKI Printing Solutions. It is also home to important small, medium and large businesses.

The estate's power station supplies heat and power to local customers by burning waste.[3]

  1. ^ Helen Murray. "Slough Trading Estate". sloughte.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008.
  2. ^ Slough Estates petition to Parliament, Crossrail bill 2005–06
  3. ^ Slough Multifuel webpage