BCP is one of the largest independent airport

Airport

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 car parking companies in the UK , also offering parking at Dover

Dover

Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings...

 and Southampton

Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...

 ports . BCP also sells pre-bookable central London

London

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 parking .

History of BCP

BCP was incorporated in November 1963 as Terminus Securities Limited. In 1978 Terminus Securities acquired a car park at Gatwick, on the airport boundary next to the runway, from a company named British Chemotheutic Products.

In 1988 Stephen Moss CBE

CBE

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, who had gained an MBA in Business Studies at the London Business School, was appointed Managing Director of BCP, the family's car parking business. Moss was instrumental in growing a small car park investment at Gatwick into a 5,000 space operation incorporating the UK’s first multi-storey block-parked car park .

In October 1991 BCP extended the scope of their car parking operations by setting up a multi airport booking system using a network of airport car parks around the country. The network included their own Gatwick car park plus off airport parking facilities for Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds Bradford, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Airport

Edinburgh Airport is located at Turnhouse in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the busiest airport in Scotland in 2010, handling just under 8.6 million passengers in that year. It was also the sixth busiest airport in the UK by passengers and the fifth busiest by aircraft movements...

, Glasgow

Glasgow Airport

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 and Belfast International. BCP also offered advance booking facilities for the on-airport car parks at Luton

London Luton Airport

London Luton Airport is an international airport located east of the town centre in the Borough of Luton in Bedfordshire, England and is north of Central London. The airport is from Junction 10a of the M1 motorway...

, East Midlands, Manchester, Cardiff and Southampton

Southampton Airport

Southampton Airport is the 20th largest airport in the UK, located north north-east of Southampton, in the Borough of Eastleigh within Hampshire, England....

. There were also facilities for parking at the seaports of Dover and Folkestone

Folkestone

Folkestone is the principal town in the Shepway District of Kent, England. Its original site was in a valley in the sea cliffs and it developed through fishing and its closeness to the Continent as a landing place and trading port. The coming of the railways, the building of a ferry port, and its...

. The BCP booking service was awarded the ISO 9002 Certificate for Quality Assurance in 1995 .

In 1996 BCP introduced a Meet and Greet parking service and also launched a chauffeur

Chauffeur

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 driven airport car service at the major UK airports. In 1998 BCP extended their product range to offer bookings for overnight airport hotels and UK short breaks. In 1999 BCP also began to offer worldwide car hire, travel insurance

Travel insurance

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 and airport executive lounges. In July 1999 the company was incorporated, becoming BCP Limited. BCP moved to bespoke new offices at Astrid Towers, which housed a modern call centre

Call centre

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  and the company was accredited with the Investors In People

Investors in People

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 Award in 2000 .

In March 2006 BCP announced that it would be joining forces with Ryanair

Ryanair

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, allowing their passengers to book BCP products through the Ryanair website .