On 26 March, as they approach Hammersmith Bridge, the Oxford and Cambridge boat crews will row past the Harrods Depository, one of the most famous landmarks of the Boat Race ‒ and perhaps the world’s most famous storage centre.
London has the biggest concentration of self storage centres in Europe. We look at how they are distributed, and what has influenced the choices in strategic planning.
Chris Payne from GlassGuard explains why fragment retention lamps provide a simple solution to the danger posed by damage to fluorescent lamps.
We look at two companies who have chosen to do just this, and see how they have done more than simply weathered the storm.
For more than 15 years, the innovative Belgian-based company Cavale has been designing, building and fitting out self storage facilities right across Europe.
How a new self storage company in Staffordshire created its customer base, and kept it loyal.
How to be more environmentally friendly is a challenge facing all businesses these days, not just us in the storage industry. Daniel Beer of The Store Room, whose Manchester self storage site were the winners of the storage.co.uk environmental awareness award, explains what his company has been doing to try and keep things green.
Andy Vaillant is an employee at the Wimbledon branch of Henfield Self Storage, which contains about 800 self storage units. This storage centre is interesting because it used to be a very large car repair facility: in order to convert the building to self storage the owners gutted it and purpose-built storage units inside.
When I was in the USA in the 1990s I visited the Lynnhaven Marine Boatel and was impressed by this ingenious solution to a problem. Then disaster struck…
For most self storage companies, the internet now accounts for a significant proportion of their new customers. This has made it vital to have a website that is attractive, well-designed and easy to use ‒ and it is these qualities that have distinguished the winners of the Storage.co.uk Award for Website Design.
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