Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Shurgard Announces Fourth Quarter and 2005 Annual Results.
- Packing Up the Public Storage Deal
- Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas Texas | Texas Southwest
- Pre Market Alert.
- Symphony Services Provides Mimosa Systems With Comprehensive Software…

Shurgard Announces Fourth Quarter and 2005 Annual Results.
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 21, 2006
The Company reported net income to common shareholders of $2. 05 per share) for the fourth quarter of 2005 compared to $3. 08 per share) for the fourth quarter of 2004. For the year ended December 31 2005 the Company reported a net loss to common shareholders of $494000 ($0. 01 per share) compared to net income to common shareholders of $33… 08 per share) for the fourth quarter of 2004. For the year ended December 31 2005 the Company reported a net loss to common shareholders of $494000 ($0. 01 per share) compared to net income to common shareholders of $33. 72 per share) for the year ended December 31 2004. Results for 2005 were helped by a 26% improvement in income from operations over the previous year but this was more than offset by higher interest expense foreign currency exchange losses and costs related to the Company’s exploration of strategic alternatives.

Packing Up the Public Storage Deal
Motley Fool – Mar 21, 2006
Well perhaps not everything but I still have some catching up to do. Speculation about when Public Storage (NYSE:… Investors on the sidelines like me will want to pay attention to the progress the combined company makes over the next six to 12 months. If there are any stumbles there could be a very attractive opportunity to pick up a well-managed company at an attractive price — and make no mistake I view this company as well-managed. However right now the shares don’t offer the margin of safety that I’d prefer. For more REIT-related Foolishness:.

Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas Texas | Texas Southwest
Dallas Morning News – Mar 21, 2006
Johnson was an Abilene Christian University trustee and member of the school’s Sports Hall of Fame according to the Abilene Reporter-News. The plane crashed into a self-storage complex about 200 feet from the busy street near a Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum a pair of motels and a string of musical theaters bearing the names of such entertainers as Andy Williams and Bobby Vinton. "The plane shook my house when it hit" said Mike Willett who lives alongside the AAA Self Storage Inns he manages. The plane struck the corner of a building of 32 storage units and quickly caught fire destroying the building. Terry Ware office manager for a plumbing company that sits near the property said she heard the plane going over her office and sounding as if it had serious engine trouble. "My boss saw it in the air and he said it was making some very erratic movements" she said… "The plane shook my house when it hit" said Mike Willett who lives alongside the AAA Self Storage Inns he manages. The plane struck the corner of a building of 32 storage units and quickly caught fire destroying the building. Terry Ware office manager for a plumbing company that sits near the property said she heard the plane going over her office and sounding as if it had serious engine trouble. "My boss saw it in the air and he said it was making some very erratic movements" she said. Ware said she heard screams from the plane but Mr. Tweedy said it was unlikely that any of the passengers survived the impact of the crash.

Pre Market Alert.
Free with registration – M2 Presswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 21, 2006
Closed up over 11% on Monday after announcing the Company has received a large server and storage equipment order for over $560000 from one of Canada’s largest and most diversified universities. The order the majority of which is due to ship before the end of March is for an SGI Altix 350 Server 32 processors RAID Storage and a Prism DS graphics server. The Altix 350 delivers more real-world performance than any other system in its class providing breakthrough capabilities for technical databases while the Prism DS Server is the world’s first interactive Linux(R) visualization system.

Symphony Services Provides Mimosa Systems With Comprehensive Software…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 21, 2006
– Companies Team Up for SIIA Webinar on How Outsourcing Strategies in Early Stage Companies Can Lead to Improved Time to Market and Competitive Advantage Symphony Services a global provider of collaborative full lifecycle-outsourcing solutions for software product development and analytic processes today announced details of its partnership with Mimosa Systems including specific achievements resulting from the company’s decision to team with Symphony on the development of its unified information management solutions. Symphony has leveraged its storage archiving and data protection domain expertise and strong track record helping emerging companies integrate software outsourcing strategies across the product development lifecycle to increase competitive advantage–decreasing time to market for their products and improving.