FOCUS UK & EUROPE 2007 - Q3

In this issue:

Focus on the UK

• SSA News
  • Company Law Amendment Directive UK Law
    • From 1st January 2007 all companies must provide all company information on their websites and email footers
• News
  • Drive-up units arrive at Crown Self Storage in Cornwall
    • Steel Storage Europe has completed the construction of what it claims is the largest external drive-up system in the UK
  • If you can’t beat them, join them
    • Fox Group has joined the SSA after operating self storage for over ten years
  • Big Storage equals big funding
    • Big Storage has secured a £9.2million funding line from the National Westminster Bank
  • Safestore approaches the 100 stores mark
  • Armadillo acquired by HSBC
    • Armadillo has been sold to the property and infrastructure arm of HSBC
  • Simply Self Storage opens in Aberdeen
    • Simply Self Storage opened a new personal and business storage facility in Aberdeen at the end of last year. Simply Self Storage is the latest venture from Huntly-based temporary space specialist RB Farquhar
  • Two new directors for Lok’nStore Group plc
    • Two new non-executive directors have joined the board of Lok’nStore Group plc. Edward Luker and Charles Peal have been appointed following the company’s rapid expansion
  • Look what’s in store for a former foundry
    • A new self storage facility occupies a brown-fi eld site in West Bromwich. U Can Store It has launched a 2.5 acre storage centre in Phoenix Street, at the site of the former Rudge Littley foundry
  • Big Yellow opens two more stores
• Packaging
  • Dedicated retail products for self storage customers
    • Partnership with Smithpack Group - Retail Packaging Products - to create a dedicated range of Retail Products for self storage customers
  • Driving your revenue forward through retail sales by Martin Canty – Chairman Smithpack Group - Retail Packaging Products
• Members' meeting
  • It is all in the marketing
  • The benefi ts of mystery shopping to the self storage industry
  • Taking advantage of your mystery shopping programme
• Letter from the USA
  • Self storage trends from the US by Denis Nunez

Focus on Europe

• FEDESSA News
  • Shurgard Europe flying high
  • France: The growth in the French self storage market
• European Union
  • Changes afoot in Brussels
    • New Year, new developments within the European Institutions
• The Secretary General at work in Ireland