Cavale: a European leader in steel self storage fit-outs
For more than 15 years, the innovative Belgian-based company Cavale has been designing, building and fitting out self storage facilities right across Europe.
International storage
Throw away the key: Self storage and crime
It’s no secret that the private, clandestine nature of self storage means it can sometimes present criminals with the perfect cover for getting up to no good.
How has the recession affected European self storage?
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.
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…
uShip.com: A cheaper form of self storage transport
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 […]
What can we learn about the self storage market from studying Public Storage?
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.
Self Storage in Switzerland
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.
Spanish Self Storage
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 […]
Quote unquote: words of wisdom about self storage
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.
Self Storage in South Africa
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.
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