A 29-year-old man has been charged with burglary in relation to a break in at Kennards Self Storage Napier.
A police spokeswomen said the alleged burglary
Australian best friends Geoff Huens, 41, and Richard Kelsey, 39, who started their humble business in a tiny Kennards storage shed have built a multi-million dollar beer empire.
Consolidation on the way for self-storage industry
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Consolidation and the prospect of takeovers loom large for Australia’s self-storage sector as it emerges from COVID-19 with high occupancy rates and a favourable outlook, according to industry leaders and analysts.
National Storage managing director Andrew Catsoulis.
Michelle Smith
Major players have been fighting tooth and nail for new sites and industry ascendancy following a tumultuous 2020, when market leader National Storage was the target of a failed three-way takeover battle that led to rival Abacus holding 9.9 per cent of its shares.
“It’s inevitable we’ll see more consolidation of a fragmented market,” Andrew Parsons, executive director of Resolution Capital, told
B&D Garage Doors and Openers provided a complete solution for storage lockup doors to be fitted at Kennards Self Storage’s recently completed self-storage centre in Murarrie, Brisbane.
Australia’s largest self-storage operator, Kennards Self Storage (KSS) has a network of 81 locations across Australia and New Zealand. Founded on principles of quality, value, convenience and innovation, the company strives to provide its customers with an exceptional and secure storage experience.
The KSS brand with its iconic orange and blue corporate colours is proudly displayed across every storage centre. Aligned with the brand, the storage lockup door on each individual storage unit features a high-gloss orange finish. Typically, a high-gloss finish on a rolling door is achieved through rollforming the sheets, leaving the door with a perceptible curve. When viewed down a walkway, the protrusion on each door can appear quite unsightly.
A spokesman for the Commerce Commission said it had received nine complaints about Auckland-based Car Wash Elephant in the last six months. It had looked into five but decided not to investigate, but would not say why. One customer, Lucinda Byrnes, said she had been waiting for more than month for $80 worth of products and her comments on the company’s social media pages asking for an update had been deleted. “No communication, nor have they sent the owing products. It’s really disappointing,” Byrnes said. “What kind of business deletes bad feedback and blocks, rather than finding a solution?”