Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Columbians buying giant storage firm
- Smartbox acquires Calif. company
- We lack the energy to tackle the biggest threat we face

Columbians buying giant storage firm
Columbia Daily Tribune M 
After the deal he said TKG-StorageMart will be the largest privately owned storage company in North America with about 130 properties totaling 8. 2 million square feet of storage space. California-based Public Storage is currently the largest publicly traded self-storage company in the world with 2012 storage facilities in the United States and 169 in Europe totaling about 136 million square feet of storage space. "It’s an exciting time for us. The more we’ve gotten to know the employees and assets of InStorage the happier we’ve become with the quality of the company we’re purchasing" Burnam said. "They got trapped in stormy economic times and we were fortunate enough to have fantastic timing on putting in our bid. " TKG-StorageMart has 70 facilities in the United States and Canada including five in Columbia.
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Smartbox acquires Calif. company
Richmond Times Dispatch VA 
company | Richmond Times-Dispatch. The company said yesterday that it has acquired San Diego-based Big Box Storage Inc.

We lack the energy to tackle the biggest threat we face
The Herald UK 
International power can no longer be measured in military might important as that remains. Nation-states face threats of many kinds not least in energy supply. I suspect that the Ukrainians have indeed defaulted on payments and that the Russians are now milking the ensuing row for all it’s worthand more. But the consequencesare already dramatic and in that respect they are useful. They are showing how quickly geopolitical assumptions can crumble. For example Turkey is now desperately seeking gas from Iran.