Moving and Storage Business News

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- Boxwood Partners advises SMARTBX Portable Self-Storage LLC on …
- Hall Street Self-Storage Becomes ‘iStoreGreen’
- Jobless rate jumps to 7.2 percent in Dec. highest since ’93 as …
- Columbians buying giant storage firm
- Smartbox acquires Calif. company

Boxwood Partners advises SMARTBX Portable Self-Storage LLC on …
PR Web (press release) WA 
("Big Box") by SMARTBX Portable Self-Storage LLC ("SMARTBX") one of the fastest-growing portable storage and moving companies in the United States. Both SMARTBX and Big Box were recently named to Entrepreneur magazine's Franchise 500® an annual ranking of the top 500 franchises in the world. In addition SMARTBX landed at No. 49 on Entrepreneur's list of Top New Franchises. Boxwood Partners acted as the exclusive advisor to SMARTBX with respect to the transaction.

Hall Street Self-Storage Becomes ‘iStoreGreen’
Brooklyn Daily Eagle NY 
?There?s been green dry cleaning and even green wines available today ? self-storage needs to be greened too especially since it?s an industry that can use a lot of energy and materials and is one which people use every day not a few times a week. It needs to be accessible. ?Since the company became iStoreGreen its office desks and shelving for storage spaces have been made out of wood reclaimed from the original building. The facility has also started distributing a booklet (printed on recycled paper with soy ink) to clients and community residents with advice on how to be green at home. But Sitt is not stopping there. Dash said that in the future his hope is to open more facilities that will be even greener than the first. He wants everything to be green ?from the ground up? she told the Eagle.

Jobless rate jumps to 7.2 percent in Dec. highest since ’93 as …
Minneapolis Star Tribune MN 
But high prices for energy and food through much of 2008 made people feel that their paychecks weren’t stretching that far. Corporate layoffs continue to pile up. Earlier this week drugstore operator Walgreen Co. managed care provider Cigna Corp. aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. data-storage company EMC Corp.
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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.

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.