Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Bluffton storage company serving as toy drop-off site
- A Year of Tumult for REITs
- FlatRate Moving & Storage Helps Jobless New Yorkers Downsize
- U-Store-It Declares Fourth Quarter 2008 Dividend
- Wal-Mart’s Scott Says Shoppers Changing Behavior on Job Worries
- Moving company announces new Web site
- Patent Prowess

Bluffton storage company serving as toy drop-off site
Hilton Head Island Packet SC 
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A Year of Tumult for REITs
New York Times United States 
57 percent; and regional shopping malls were off 66. The best performer — that is the sector with the smallest losses — was self-storage down 14. A DRIVING force behind the market’s dismal performance has been rising debt levels in many REITs. “They took advantage of all the cheap credit that was once available and overextended themselves often buying overvalued properties using excessive leverage” said Joel R. Bloomer a senior equity analyst at.

FlatRate Moving & Storage Helps Jobless New Yorkers Downsize
MarketWatch 
About FLATRATE MOVING & STORAGE: Since its inception in 1992 FlatRate Moving & Storage has grown to be NewYork City’s largest moving and storage company by maintaining integrityinnovation and professionalism. In addition to mastering the difficult art ofmoving in one of the most hectic cities in the world – NYC – FlatRate’sintroduction of the flat rate move – free from hidden costs hassles and thequestionable practices often tied to moving companies – changed the face ofits industry. And with distinct levels of service ranging from an EconomyPackage to the luxury Elite service the company offers a solution foreveryone. Today FlatRate provides its superior services and expertisethrough branches in California Florida New Jersey and Washington D.

U-Store-It Declares Fourth Quarter 2008 Dividend
MarketWatch 
“We believe thecurrent dividend policy is evidence of our continuing efforts to begood stewards of our shareholders’ capital and believe the retainedcash created is an important and necessary component of our capitalraising program. About U-Store-It Trust U-Store-It Trust is a self-administered and self-managed real estateinvestment trust focused on the ownership operation acquisition anddevelopment of self-storage facilities in the United States. TheCompany’s self-storage facilities are designed to offer affordableeasily accessible and secure storage space for residential andcommercial customers. According to the 2008 Self-Storage AlmanacU-Store-It Trust is one of the top four owners and operators ofself-storage facilities in the United States. Forward-Looking Statements This presentation together with other statements and informationpublicly disseminated by U-Store-It Trust (“we” “us” “our” or the”Company”) contains certain forward-looking statements within themeaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21Eof the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended (the “ExchangeAct”). Such statements are based on assumptions and expectations thatmay not be realized and are inherently subject to risksuncertainties and other factors many of which cannot be predictedwith accuracy and some of which might not even be anticipated. Although we believe the expectations reflected in theseforward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptionsfuture events and actual results performance transactions orachievements financial and otherwise may differ materially from theresults performance transactions or achievements expressed orimplied by the forward-looking statements.
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Wal-Mart’s Scott Says Shoppers Changing Behavior on Job Worries
Bloomberg 
retailers that reported higher comparable-store sales last monthas consumers sought discounted groceries and basic necessities. Scott attributed Wal-Mart?s growth to the company?s focuson the ?everyday needs of middle-class America. ? Another business leader who joined Scott on ?Meet thePress? Google Inc. ?s chief executive.

Moving company announces new Web site
Poughkeepsie Journal NY 
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Patent Prowess
IEEE Spectrum NY 
This pattern of citations to the patents of E Ink and SiPix suggests that electronic ink is still a relatively self-contained technology with competing companies building extensively on each other?s patent portfolios. Having said this we should also note that large technology companies are also starting to build on the patents of E Ink and SiPix reflecting electronic ink?s status as an emerging technology with broad potential application. Companies first appearing in the scorecard or moving up significantly in the rankings are of particular interest. One such company is Novellus whose ranking in Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturing improved from 17th in 2006 to third in 2007. The patent metrics for Novellus reveal that its patent portfolio is growing at an increasing rate (high Patent Growth Index) and has had a strong impact on subsequent technological developments (high Pipeline Impact) as seen across a range of technologies (high Pipeline Generality). Novellus has a series of highly cited patents describing its chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technology in particular high density plasma CVD. More recently the company has been granted patents related to supercritical solutions for wafer cleaning and methods for using these solutions in chip fabrication.