Safestore news archive
12 September 2011
A charity which collects and distributes second hand text books to school children in East Africa has thanked Safestore in Old Trafford for donating free storage space and staff time.
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08 June 2011
Second bi annual index from Safestore tracks UK home moving sentiment
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11 April 2011
Small businesses are cautious about their prospects following the 2011 Budget, with 55 percent of small business decision makers expecting their business to ‘stay about the same size’ and 25 per cent predicting their businesses will grow in the next 12 months, according to new research for Safestore, the UK’s largest self-storage company.
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09 December 2010
New bi annual index from Safestore tracks UK home moving sentiment
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15 November 2010
Safestore, the UK’s leading self storage company, is expanding in Bolton with the opening of a new store on Manchester Road. The new state-of-the-art facility replaces a smaller store in Nile Street and responds to the growing trend for both households and businesses to use self storage.
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12 November 2010
Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people, has joined forces with Safestore, the UK’s leading self storage company, to collate foods, clothing, toiletries and other items for distributing to over 2,500 homeless and people in short-term accommodation, such as hostels, in Greater London over the festive period. Kind-hearted Londoners are being asked to drop-off specific gifts, ranging from tinned soup to men’s socks, contained on a Christmas Wish List, at any one of Safestore’s 42 centres in the Greater London area before December 10th.
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02 November 2010
Safestore, the UK’s leading self storage company, is expanding in Southend with the opening of a new store in Progress Road, Leigh-on-Sea. The new state-of-the-art facility replaces a smaller store on the same road and responds to the growing trend for both households and businesses to use self storage.
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01 November 2010
Safestore, the UK’s largest self storage company, has launched the first mobile website in the self storage industry. Customers will be able to access the mobile website from their iPhones, enabling them to search for their local store, use a mobile version of the storage size estimator and contact their local store through “push to call numbers”.
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11 October 2010
Dwayne Newcombe from Hockley ran the Royal Parks Half Marathon on Sunday 10 October raising hundreds of pounds for the disability charity Scope in the process.
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27 July 2010
Safestore, the UK’s leading self storage company, has announced plans for an ongoing partnership with St Christopher’s Hospice in Crystal Palace, where it has just opened a new storage facility. As part of this initiative, Safestore recently sponsored St Christopher’s sixth Annual Golf Day, held at the Sundridge Park Golf Club in Bromley.
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15 July 2010
Safestore, London, UK, 15 July 2010: 30 percent of British SMEs say that the increase in VAT, from 17.5 to 20 percent, as outlined in the recent Budget, would be detrimental to their business, with 19 percent saying they plan to freeze or lower employee salaries due to the budgetary measure and increased costs, according to YouGov research commissioned by Safestore, the UK’s leading self storage business.
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01 June 2010
Safestore, the UK’s leading self storage provider, is delighted to announce its exclusive partnership with Tesco is entering its second year. The partnership - which sees Safestore being the only self storage company working with Tesco - offers customers the option to exchange their Clubcard vouchers for Tokens to spend at Safestore.
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31 March 2010
Safestore, the UK’s leading self storage provider, has joined forces with independent charity Trees for Cities to kick-start the Tree Street Tree Programme - which involves local communities planting trees in their respective Boroughs as part of a national urban regeneration initiative. Supported by the Mayor of London, the second of these plantings took place on the 23rd March in Neasden, Brent.
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26 May 2009
Safestore’s charity of the year partner Scope is launching a new mass participation event which gives disabled and non-disabled people the opportunity to get involved in physical activity and raise funds for a good cause.
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18 February 2009
By Ilana Polyak for the Washington Post
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Sunday, February 15, 2009
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23 April 2008
Safestore, the UK’s largest self storage company, has teamed up with eBay to offer its Power Seller customers a host of exclusive benefits.
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15 June 2007
Safestore recently opened its 100th self storage facility at Guildford in Surrey. It is on the popular Slyfield Industrial Estate which it shares with two other major self storage operators.
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14 July 2006
- 29% increase in turnover to £30.4m
- EBITDA up 27% to £11.4m
- £237m debt refinancing
- Number of stores reaches 100
European self-storage provider Safestore today (date) announced EBITDA of £11.4m on turnover of £30.4m for the six months to 30 April 2006.
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09 March 2006
Slough Trading Estate has agreed terms with leading self storage specialist Safestore to develop a new facility on the estate’s Farnham Road frontage.
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