As everyone knows, these are challenging economic times. The recession that began in 2007 has left people across Britain and Europe with lower disposable incomes, as unemployment has increased, salaries have remained static, and credit has become scarcer.
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…
Moving stuff around can be expensive so uShip.com have come up with a way of making it much cheaper. Their model, based around the Internet, allows people with vans to bid for jobs to move loads. As a middle man they take only a small cut, typically about 6%, which is charged to the van [...]
Public storage of the US is the mammoth storage company whose managers are well positioned to gauge the state of the self storage market with its 2,000 plus facilities, including 190 in Europe.
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 [...]
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.
The United Arab Emirates are home to virtually all the self storage facilities in the Middle East, with the majority of them being located in Dubai. Six different companies have emerged there in the last decade who offer self storage space to consumers.
The Danish self storage market is growing rapidly but is still quite small relative to the demand for storage in the UK. Similarly to the market here, there are both converted old buildings and many new-builds.
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