Berlin was the host city of this year’s European Self-Storage Conference and CityStore were in attendance as full members of the UK Self Storage Association (SSA).

Over the 3 days of the conference all member visitors were able to see new innovations in the self-storage marketplace as well as hearing from guest speakers such as Anne Ballard (Universal Management Company) and Jonathan Perrins (Self Storage Association Australasia) about growth of self-storage in other world markets.

We were also lucky enough to be able to spend some time in Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg, visiting one of the breathtaking palaces.

Roll on 2011 in Portugal!

CityStore Self-Storage have launched their Weekly Special Offer for all new customers taking storage space. Read on to learn more.

The rules? – every Monday morning, each of our Centre Manager’s choose a room size that is available at a heavily discounted rate for up to 6 months. Call 0207 428 9988 when you see it and ask whether it is still available. If it is, pay £20 to reserve the unit and it’s yours. Simple.

How many are there? There is only one of these units available, so it’s first come first served!

Is there any catch? No catches. All we ask is that you move into the room within 7 days of reservation.

So if you are interested in a great deal for storage, look-out for our Manager’s Specials every week. Even if you don’t happen to get this deal, we have other great offers in store. Just call 0207 428 9988.

Good luck.

Here at CityStore Self-Storage we love everything storage. So we couldn’t resist sharing a great new storage solution that we saw on sale recently – storage cufflinks!

For the man who never likes to go anywhere without a means of saving important documents, it is the perfect solution.

While CityStore caters for business storage of another variety, namely for those looking to store stock and archives, we do acknowledge that it is a clever use of space.

As word spreads that there is self storage company just up the road from The Stables Market,  more and more traders are deciding to take space.

One trader in fact has moved lock, stock and barrel from the market into CityStore. Roomscape, a company that specialises in vintage and retro antiques, asked us to create a large unit that he could use as a showroom for potential buyers.

With free access to the centre 7 days a week via pincode, Sergio from Roomscape has found a great solution.

CityStore Self Storage are offering 50% off your 1st full month’s storage rental at our facility in Camden Town. We are confident that we provide the best value self storage solution in the local area bar none. 3 great advantages of storing with us:

1. Our storage centre is all on one floor, so no hassle with using lifts or getting a storage unit on the 3rd floor!
2. Multiple access gates so you are never more than a few paces from your storage room.
3. Best Value Guarantee – we will aim to beat any quote for comparable self-storage in the local area.

Call our storage centre on 0207 428 9988 to guarantee yourself the best deal.

The protection of customers and customer goods are of the highest importance so we have installed the following:

• 24hr CCTV covering all internal corridors and external access points
• Off-site alarm monitoring centre with remote access 
• Individual pincode access
• Individual storage unit alarms
• State-of-the-art fire protection systems

If you are interested in taking a storage unit, come down to the centre or call for more information.

The Student Case is all about giving a cost-effective and convenient storage option for students to store their belongings over the Christmas, Easter and Summer holidays. For a fixed price, CityStore deliver a large storage crate the week before the end of term, the student fills the crate and agrees a timeslot for pick-up, CityStore collects the crate and stores it for the holidays. On return, CityStore arranges re-delivery to the student halls.

Easy. Find out more about our Low Cost Storage for Students.

Commuters and local residents have been calling our self-storage centre in Camden Town after seeing our quirky advert in the lifts at both Chalk Farm and Belsize Park underground stations.

We thought we would try and put a smile on peoples faces in the morning because, let’s be honest, who REALLY enjoys early mornings on the Tube?

Business self-storage is now booming, as more and more businesses realise the benefits of taking storage space off-site in locations that are the most convenient to them. But what are these benefits? Read on….

- One major benefit of taking space at a self-storage centre is that it avoids the need to rent extra office space as your businesses grows. Not only is office space expensive at the best of times, the time wasted in having to move the complete contents of your offices, not to mention the staff, is often too much. With self-storage, any stock or excess furniture can be stored securely in a storage unit on flexible terms. As your storage needs grow, the extra space is available, so you only pay for the space you need.

- Another attraction of self-storage for businesses is to store archives and seldom-used documents. For many companies, it is a legal obligation to keep certain records for a certain amount of time – usually between 7 and 10 years. For businesses such as architects, building drawings and plans need to be kept for the entire life of the building and for Colleges and Universities, learner records are often kept for at least 5 years. Rather than have hundreds of files that are rarely accessed, storing them off-site in a storage room is an easy and cost-effective solution. As the price paid is based on the floor area of the room, well-ordered archive boxes that maximise the available space can end up costing as little as a few pence per month.

- Not only do offices benefit from using self-storage rooms, large companies can also find that it is a very cost-effective way of doing business. Large corporations that have reps travelling around the country can ensure that deliveries of any collateral can be made directly to their local patch which means that reps can spend more time selling and less time chasing stock. With many storage centres accepting deliveries on the customers’ behalf, there is no need to wait around if deliveries are late. As long as an agreement has been signed, storage centre staff can sign for goods and even put them into the storage room for you.

CityStore Self-Storage in Chalk Farm is just one of the companies that has benefited from an understanding of the requirements of local business. For more information on how self-storage can help your business, go to www citystore.ltd.uk

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