12.20pm – 12.45pm BST, Monday 20 September 2021 ‐ 25 mins
Room: Pavillion
Container Break Out Stream
Many container sites are unmanned either permanently or for extended periods. Hear how new technology can make unmanned sites more secure as well as easier to access for your customers.
blue self storage
Chris, a Commercial Manager, advises on all property investment and management activities to a number of privately owned, related companies. As part of the portfolio; Chris leads the expanding self storage business, blue self storage (previously known as Cardiff Self Storage), a container self storage operator based in Cardiff.
Chris believes that good quality, container storage operators have an important place in the market. Historically, Container Operators were often thought of as the ‘lower end’ of the market – however with many Container Operators offering a high standard of quality, Chris is looking forward to working with similar minded operators within the Sector Forum to ensure that Containers are recognised in the Self Storage industry for their USP’s.
Chris is also a SSA UK Board member, representing container operator members.
Loc-Box Self Storage
Having read Land Management at Reading, George qualified as a Chartered Surveyor with Strutt & Parker. At 25 he took his third gap year cycling across Europe and Africa finishing in Cape Town in 2010. For the past decade he has been focused on his family’s diversified farming and commercial property businesses in Northamptonshire which includes overseeing the growth and management of Loc-Box.