eKourier Jan 2009

Team Member Profiles

Terry Sharp Assistant Manager Sandgate

Anastasia Christou Assistant Accountant THQ Career background: I’ve always worked in accounts for a variety of different industries

Career background: State Rail for 20 years. The past 15 years as a greenkeeper for a golf course Marital status: Married Any children? Son, Rodney (Sky Diver) two grandchildren. Daughter, Janelle (Intel Analyst & NSW Police Dept) Hobbies/interests: Ride motorcycles Do you play any sport or have any special talents? Golf Favourite book: Treasure Island Favourite movie: Die Hard Favourite restaurant/food: Rump steak Where did you grow up? The country NSW, great! Any pets? 1 American Staffordshire Terrior. 1 Foxy Favourite holiday destination: Any where in the bush

Marital status: Married Any children? Two boys, Peter who is 6 and Neo who is 4. They keep me very busy! Hobbies/interests: I enjoy papercrafts, drawing, baking, reading and yoga Do you play any sport or have any special talents? No, but enjoy watching soccer and do jazzercise weekly Favourite book: To Kill A Mockingbird Favourite movie: Amelia, and feel good movies such as Love Actually Favourite restaurant/food: Thai and I love going out for Yum Cha Where did you grow up? Stanmore, my parents owned a fruit shop in Annandale Any pets? Two cockateils Favourite holiday: London and Cyprus for the Sun

Spotlight on... Wetherill Park

Cowpasture Business Centre (THQ was once living there), a few Storage units offer offices, while others have sufficient space to facilitate an office being set up by the storer. Over the past year the main challenge has been to continue to operate and grow occupancy of the facility during the construction. Wetherill Park presently now has 9,198 SQM and runs at an occupancy rate of 69.61%, and climbing. The Team James Burns the Assistant Manager and John Skerlec the Manager are the dynamic Wetherill Park Team, and have built an excellent relationship with their customers.

grow. “ I remember using the local tip about 20 years ago, and there was a lot of open land and bumpy roads, not many houses”, says John. Site Features Currently boasting 722 units upon completion of Stage 1 mid 2008. The development included a modern new

History Developed into storage around 1988 the centre has seen significant development in the area. The facility seemed to be perfectly placed to capture customers from the growing region. Sam Kennard was the Manager while it was called Easi Store in the early 90s, and since, the centre has seen the addition of dedicated motorcycle units, (..boasting up to 12 Security Features…), and open Space parking for large vehicles, (we had a 40 foot yacht store in the open spaces for a few years). Over 20 years of operation KSS Wetherill Park has continued to expand and has assisted new businesses to

office for the site with better frontage to Cowpasture road. A new Slip lane has also been built to accommodate access for Storers coming from the M7 down the Horsley Drive. One customer said, “ this is a bit hoity toity now isn’t it?’, referring to the sparkling new office and crisp merch displays. James and John agree, the new building is awesome. Wetherill Park offers driveway accessible small garage to mini warehouse size storage units and small economical storage units on upper levels in the new multi story building. We are now also able to offer storage with an office! After the re-fit of the old

(L to R) Amanda Mikolajs (Support Manager), John Skerlec & James Burns

Kennards Kourier February 2009

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