Big Yellow Finances Improve Despite Downturn
Big Yellow Self Storage’s financial performance improved in the second half of 2010 despite the persistent problems in the economy, according to their recently released half year report.
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Storage by the seaside: self storage in Poole
It’s a little-known fact that two of the five British women to be voted Miss World were born in Poole, showing the town has plently to recommend it beside Victorian architecture and seaside views. Perhaps more suprisingly, Poole is also home to a growing self storage industry, which could seem a little out of place […]
Storage Wars: a new US TV series
December saw the launch of a new “real life” series in the USA, called Storage Wars ‒ following the antics of a set of larger-than-life fortune-hunters who buy the contents of abandoned storage units. It has caused quite a stir: will it be coming to the UK soon?
Self Storage in York
York: an attractively medieval city, dominated by historic landmarks… with a street this year voted Britain’s most picturesque. And not far from the centre of York are two modern self storage facilities. How do they fit in with the city’s image?
Christmas and self storage
Baked beans, tinned fish, socks, tools, cooking utensils, first aid kits, art materials ‒ these are just some of the items on the wishlist posted by the homeless charity Crisis for this Christmas.
Government records reveal over £6.5 million spent on storage
Government departments spent more than £6.5 million between May and September this year hiring storage space, according to recently released figures.
Boat storage: the Boatel and dry stacks
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…
The Storage.co.uk Award for Packaging Retail
Most self storage companies now sell boxes, bubblewrap, packing tape and padlocks ‒ and a whole range of other storage essentials. It makes sense: sell specialist products to your niche market at the time when they most need it. But some self storage companies do it better than others.
The Storage.co.uk Award for Website Design
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.
The Storage.co.uk Award for Excellence in Customer Service
“The customer is always right”, as Harry Selfridge’s famous mantra goes. This is certainly the case in self storage, a fast-growing industry where being known for good service can be the difference between someone signing up a unit, or checking out your competitor up the road.
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