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The UNITE Group plc is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

student accommodation company.

History

The Company was founded in 1991 by Nicholas Porter, who at that time of increasing student numbers saw an opportunity to make money based on student accommodation. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...

in 2000.

Operations

UNITE is now home to some 36,700 students. Following a restructuring program, UNITE has a regional office in London

London

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, with its head office at 'The Core' in Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

.

In 2004, UNITE introduced a modular manufacturing

Modular building

Modular buildings and modular homes are sectional prefabricated buildings or houses that consist of multiple modules or sections which are built in a remote facility and then delivered to their intended site of use...

facility in Stroud

Stroud, Gloucestershire

Stroud is a market town and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District.Situated below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills at the meeting point of the Five Valleys, the town is noted for its steep streets and cafe culture...

, Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....

, called UNITE Modular Solutions (UMS) supplying modular accommodation suites for its own accommodation and external markets such as residential, hotels, leisure, public sector and key worker accommodation. Utilising state-of-the art off-site manufacturing technology, UMS designs, manufactures and constructs fully fitted volumetric modular units to form permanent, multi-storey buildings.

In 2006 UNITE was announced winner of the Management Today and Unisys

Unisys

Unisys Corporation , headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States, and incorporated in Delaware, is a long established business whose core products now involves computing and networking.-History:...

Service Excellence Awards in the retail and consumer services category.

Booking for the 2008/2009 academic period reached a record 99% occupancy over the portfolio with over 36,700 students living in UNITE properties.

In March 2009, The UNITE Group plc and Connaught plc

Connaught plc

Connaught plc is a company in the United Kingdom, operating in the social housing, public sector and compliance markets. It is headquartered in Exeter and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index before going into administration in September 2010.-Operations:...

came together with a joint venture called UCS or UNITE Connaught Services to outsource planned reactive and life cycle maintenance services to UNITE's student accommodation company.

Notable properties

Grand Central
Unite Grand Central
Unite Grand Central is a large complex of student housing located next to Lime Street station in the city centre of Liverpool, England. The building are owned by property developer Unite and are primarily home to students of Liverpool John Moores University...

- Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, Merseyside
Merseyside
Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool...
Opal 3
Opal Tower (Leeds)
Opal Tower, officially known as Opal 3, Leeds is a 25 storey building in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.It serves as student accommodation for 542 students and is close to the Civic Quarter campus of Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of Leeds.- Construction :The initial planning...

- Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
Sky Plaza - Leeds, West Yorkshire

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