Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- 10M & CLIMBING FOR AN EYEFUL OF PARIS
- Chief executive Heid resigns at Iomega.
- Gulf Times ‘” Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Finance…
- Equipment Locker moves across town: Owner purchases Laundromat site…
- Still super after 36 years

10M & CLIMBING FOR AN EYEFUL OF PARIS
New York Daily News – Feb 4, 2006
Among those possessions Schmidt said are 18 diaries in which Hilton opens up about her sexual adventures photos and videotapes of her partying hard on yachts and in mansions “sex toys” lingerie furniture and computers. Hilton’s spokesman Elliot Mintz said the “Simple Life” star had entrusted a small husband-and-wife moving company with her possessions in 2004 when she switched homes in the Hollywood Hills. Mintz said Hilton’s family had sent checks to the moving company to pay the storage bill. “We’re trying to find out what happened” he said. Schmidt is now fielding tabloid offers for what he calls “a King Tut’s tomb of scandal. ” “Paris is welcome to bid” he said. “Everything was done according to the letter of the law.

Chief executive Heid resigns at Iomega.
Free with registration – San Diego Union Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 4, 2006
4–The top executive of the struggling Zip drive maker Iomega Werner Heid resigned yesterday apparently at the request of the San Diego company’s board. Heid who took over as chief executive at Iomega in 2001 presided over a particularly rocky period at the company. During the past five years sales of its once-popular Zip storage drives have plunged much faster than the company anticipated while mini USB flash memory and other new products introduced by Iomega failed to catch on quickly enough to make up the difference. In the fourth quarter Iomega posted sales of $70 million down from.

Gulf Times ‘” Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Finance…
Gulf Times – Feb 4, 2006
More than 10 projects are on the drawing board in Britain Europe?s largest gas consumer while new sites are also being built in the Netherlands Germany and Spain. Lithuania?s president said last month his country needs to build up gas stocks to beef up its supply security in the wake of the row over gas between Russia and Ukraine which highlighted Europe?s vulnerability as an energy importer. Britain which is fast running out of gas from its North Sea fields urgently needs more storage sites to supply extra gas to meet peak demand but many projects face difficulty getting planning permission. ?The nature of the market has changed a lot in Britain? said Niall Trimble of the Energy Contract Company.

Equipment Locker moves across town: Owner purchases Laundromat site…
Free with registration – Florida Keys Keynoter – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 4, 2006
Byline: Michael Welber Feb. 4–Fed up with what he says is not getting needed repairs on the space he rents at 1700 Overseas Highway near Vaca Cut in Marathon Equipment Locker Sport & Bicycle owner Roland Godbout has purchased a building in Old Town Marathon at the western end of the island. He’ll be moving his business there later this spring. “I’ve been dealing with.

Still super after 36 years
Aspen Times – Feb 4, 2006
The people around here have always known me as just Ed. If I had stayed in Kansas City that would have been a different deal. "Since moving to the valley Podolak has worked in the real estate business where he has ‘done pretty well’ " he says. His company is currently developing Town Center in Carbondale. "We’re kind of revitalizing the whole downtown of Carbondale" Podolak says smiling. "We just opened the new performing arts theater on New Year’s Eve in Carbondale. It’s going to offer a lot of the same things that the Wheeler offers in Aspen.