During the summer, two university students from Switzerland, came to work at the offices of Storage.co.uk. We gave them the task of analysing the websites of all the self storage companies on our database — no mean task, as there are more than 500 of these (multi-site companies not included). It gave them a unique insight into the British self storage industry. This is their report.
An increasing number of the larger self storage companies are including offices-for-rent in their new-build facilities. And many customers are satisfied.
Switzerland is a small country (just under 8 million possible users of self storage), but it is wealthy and people are often short of space – so the demand for self storage is growing rapidly here.
There are about 95 Spanish self storage facilities so compared with the UK the market is in its infancy – but it is growing. Bluespace One of the most prominent Spanish self storage operators is Bluespace, which has 17 sites and a total of 80,000 square metres of storage rooms. Their typical storage centre is [...]
A novel about self storage? Really? Genuinely set against the background of the self storage industry? Yes indeed, and Gayle Brandeis’s novel is written with considerable charm, verve, invention and skill.
Most museums and galleries don’t have enough storage space to hold all the thousands of objects that they own. So what do they do with the rest? Storage.co.uk recently submitted a series of Freedom of Information Act requests in order to find out. In all, ten major cultural collections were sent the three questions below [...]
Much has been written about the self storage industry. Here are some ‘sound bites’ that encapsulate an essential truth about self storage and attendant issues, such as decluttering.
There are over 200 self storage facilities in South Africa and the industry is expanding steadily. The boom years were between 2005 and 2008 when the growth rate was about 40%, but this has since dropped significantly.
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