What Restore plc does

Restore plc is a UK-headquartered, AIM-listed (LON: RST) provider of secure and sustainable business services for data, information, communications, and assets. The group operates three core divisions: Information Management (secure physical document storage, digital transformation, scanning, and digital mailrooms processing 60,000+ mail items daily across 50+ locations, serving 6,900+ customers); Datashred (national document destruction across 11 secure shredding centres, with a 175-vehicle fleet visiting 45,000+ sites and 32,500+ customers annually); and Technology (IT asset lifecycle services — installation, relocation, resale, recycling — processing 1.5m+ assets annually across 6 sites). Adjacent lines include Harrow Green commercial relocations, Synertec outbound communications (acquired 2025), and Restore Recycle.

The company serves a mix of public sector customers (local authorities across England, Wales, and Scotland; NHS trusts) and large enterprise customers (FTSE 100 companies, top 50 accountancy practices), plus a long tail of SMB customers via Datashred. Underlying technology includes AI-powered data classification, extraction, and validation in the digital services workflow, a cloud-based migration of the Synertec operating platform, and an online hosting facility for cloud-hosted documents. The business is supported by an extensive certification stack (ISO 9001/14001/27001/45001/50001/22301, Cyber Essentials Plus, PCI-DSS, NHS DSP Toolkit, BS EN 15713:2023, NCSC CAS-S, NPSA, UKSSA) and Crown Commercial Service framework approval.

The business model is sales-led B2B with direct field sales targeting enterprise and public sector buyers, quote-based multi-year contracts, and recurring service relationships. Approximately 76% of revenue is recurring (storage ~32%, recurring services ~44%) with the remainder from non-recurring services and IT hardware resale. FY2025 revenue reached £304.7m with a 20.8% adjusted operating margin, 103% cash conversion, and over 90% revenue visibility on 2026. The company has executed nine acquisitions since 2025 totalling more than £35.1m and announced a £20m share buyback program for 2026, operating as the UK market leader or No. 2 in all main activities.

Name

Restore plc

Legal name

Restore plc

Website

https://restoreplc.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Restore plc is a UK AIM-listed provider of secure document storage, shredding, IT asset lifecycle management, and digital communications services. It serves public sector bodies and FTSE 100 enterprises through 72 sites nationwide, with FY2025 revenue of £304.7m.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Information Management Services

NAICS

General Warehousing and Storage (493110), Business Support Services (5614), Materials Recovery Facilities (562920)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Asset Recovery, Surplus & Decommissioning Services (EUAIANAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Data Recovery, Device Unlocking & Software Repair Services (CRACAJAJ)

Keywords

• Document management services
• Secure shredding services
• IT asset lifecycle
• Digital mailroom services
• Commercial relocation services

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Storage Income: Recurring storage income from physical document storage. Highly predictable revenue stream with visibility on over 90% of 2026 revenue. Majority of revenues are contracted. Accounts for approximately 32% of revenue.
2. Recurring Services: Recurring service revenues including shredding services, digital mailrooms, outbound communications. Accounts for approximately 44% of revenue. Customers served on daily or weekly basis.
3. Non-recurring Services: One-time services including bulk scanning projects, commercial relocations, technology installations. Accounts for approximately 16% of revenue.
4. Product Sales: IT hardware resale including laptops, desktops, monitors processed through Technology division. Accounts for approximately 8% of revenue. End-users continue to outsource IT hardware procurement to VARs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Restore plc provides secure physical document storage, digital transformation and data management through its Information Management division; national onsite and offsite confidential shredding through Datashred; and complete IT asset deployment, management, resale and recycling through its Technology division. The Group also offers commercial relocations (Harrow Green), digital mailroom and bulk scanning (Restore Digital) and outbound communications (Synertec), serving public and private sector clients across more than 50 UK locations.

Product overview

Restore plc operates as a unified platform providing secure and sustainable business services across three core divisions: Information Management, Datashred, and Technology. The Information Management division handles secure physical document storage, digital transformation, and data management through services including off-site storage, scanning, hosting, and digital mailrooms. Datashred provides national document destruction and recycling services across 11 shredding centres. Technology offers complete IT asset lifecycle services from installation to decommissioning. These divisions work together to offer organisations a holistic approach to managing their data, information, communications and assets, with the company leveraging AI for data classification and extraction in its digital services. The portfolio also includes Restore Digital (scanning and digital transformation), Synertec (outbound communications acquired in 2025), Restore Recycle (expanded recycling services), and Harrow Green (commercial relocation).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Information Management Leading UK-owned provider of secure physical document storage, digital transformation, scanning and digital mailroom services. Offers off-site storage, scanning and hosting, and outsourced digital mailroom services processing over 60,000 mail items per day, serving over 6,900 customers from more than 50 UK locations. Customers include local authorities, NHS trusts, FTSE 100 companies and top 50 accountancy practices.
• Datashred One of two national operators providing onsite and offsite confidential shredding services in the UK, with 11 secure shredding centres, six collection locations and a fleet of 175 vehicles. Serves over 32,500 customers across more than 78,000 locations, visiting 45,000+ sites with over 470,000 total visits per year. Includes secure destruction, paper recycling and confidential waste collection for SMBs, enterprises and public sector bodies.
• Technology (IT Asset Lifecycle) The UK's largest market-leading IT asset deployment, management and decommissioning business. Provides complete services for IT assets including installation, relocation, resale and recycling, processing more than 1.5 million assets annually across 6 sites. Also includes resale of IT hardware (laptops, desktops, monitors). NPSA-registered to handle secure and classified data.
• Restore Digital Digital services sub-brand of Restore offering the UK's largest scanning operation integrated with physical storage capabilities. Provides bulk-scanning activities, document scanning integration, digital mailroom services and digital transformation services, including the application of AI to data classification, extraction and validation.
• Synertec Outbound communications business acquired in 2025, providing high-growth business capabilities primarily serving NHS and public sector bodies. The operating platform is being migrated to a cloud-based solution to improve functionality for the customer base.
• Harrow Green Commercial relocation services operating as UK market leader, specialising in creating effective workspaces and providing life science, heritage and technology moves and storage for all sectors, including office relocations, technology moves and specialist heritage collections.

Quantifiable outcome

• Adjusted operating margin improved to 20.8% in FY 2025 from 16.8% in 2023
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• British LibrarycoreOthers · 1 May 202525+ year partnership supporting the British Library. Vehicles servicing their sites transitioned from diesel to HVO fuel, reducing CO2 emissions by approximately 80 tonnes annually. Direct support for their sustainability goals as part of renewed contract.
• Specialist Insulation and Sustainability Building Products Company (unnamed)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2025Partner who provided 16,000 litres of surplus HVO fuel for repurposing. Fuel used to power Secure Destruction vehicles in Technology division, reducing waste and supporting low-carbon operations.

Scale indicators30 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Cintas Corporation: Large US-based business services company with a document destruction and records management offering. Overlaps with Restore's shredding and information management services, though Cintas is much broader (uniforms, first aid, fire protection) and primarily North American.
• Iron Mountain Incorporated: Global leader in records storage, secure shredding, and data management with ~$5bn+ revenue. Directly comparable to Restore across physical document storage, digital scanning, and secure destruction, but with significantly broader international footprint and a more mature technology/data centre offering.

Direct peers

• Crown Records Management: UK-focused records management and secure shredding competitor. Directly comparable to Restore's Information Management and Datashred divisions, with similar UK geographic focus and overlapping customer base across enterprise and public sector.
• OASIS Group: European records management, secure shredding, and digital services provider. Comparable to Restore's three-division model with operations in multiple European countries, offering direct competition for UK and pan-European customers.
• Sims Lifecycle Services: Global IT asset disposition (ITAD) company providing secure data destruction, refurbishment, and recycling of IT equipment. Directly comparable to Restore Technology's IT asset deployment, decommissioning, and recycling business, particularly the Ultratec data erasure capabilities.
• Stericycle / Shred-it: Major North American-based secure shredding and document destruction operator. Directly comparable to Restore Datashred division's on-site and off-site shredding services, though with greater North American geographic concentration.

Regional players

• Liberty Group: UK-based office services company offering commercial relocation services. Directly comparable to Restore Harrow Green's commercial relocations business, operating primarily in the UK market.
• Reisswolf (Helm AG subsidiary): European secure document destruction and records management operator. Comparable to Restore Datashred and parts of Information Management, but primarily serving Germany and other continental European markets rather than the UK.

Others

• Rocket Software: Enterprise IT modernisation and document management software provider. Not a direct competitor but adjacent to Restore Digital's digital mailroom, scanning, and AI-enabled data extraction services, representing a potential technology partner or threat as software-native approaches gain traction.

Emerging players

• DataSpace UK: UK-based document storage and information management provider. Comparable to Restore Information Management's physical storage offering, though significantly smaller in scale and likely a regional sub-scale player.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance17 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Subsidiaries18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A25 records

Investments

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