MEPC is a British-based property investment and development business. It is headquartered in Milton Park, Oxfordshire. It used to be listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It is however now owned by Federated Hermes.
History
The business was founded by Claude Moss Leigh in 1946 as the Metropolitan Estates & Property Corporation.[1] Having started as a property investment business it diversified into the development of shopping malls in the 1970s.[2] It adopted the shortened name of MEPC in 1973. In 1987 it acquired the Oldham Estate.[3]
In 2000 the Company was acquired by Leconport Estates, a joint venture between the