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
- Company Law Amendment Directive UK Law
- 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
- Drive-up units arrive at Crown Self Storage in Cornwall
- 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
- Dedicated retail products for self storage customers
- 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
- Changes afoot in Brussels
- The Secretary General at work in Ireland