eKourier Oct 2009

Spotlight on... Palmerston North

up. In this clean up they have come across a unit that had previously been used to store Customer’s personal records from many years ago (Fort Knox era). Among these records they found a whole lot of Firearm’s & ammunition. The Police have since been in & removed this. Turns out the customer this once belonged to skipped the country about 10 years or so ago.

in a commercial area of Palmerston North & only 2 Km’s to the Airport. We have a variety of different Customers. There are a number of different learning Institutions in Palmerston North with IPC (International Pacific College), Massey University, Teachers College & UCOL, which in November see’s our Occupancy grow with the influx of Students moving home for there summer vacation’s. Unfortunately the down turn of this is in February, our Move outs are rather high. The Team Recently with the sudden departure of the previous manager, a New Manager Sue Solly has been appointed, who comes from an extensive customer service background. Along with the assistant manager Linda Moore, they have been working together on improving the Centre by having a major clean

History Palmerston North Centre was built in 1995. Back then it was known as Fort Knox Self Storage. When first built there was only a block of approx 150 units. From then the site expanded over a period of 10 years & now we have 6 Blocks of units totalling 569. Currently we have 400 of these rented. We offer 23 different sizes. Site Features Palmerston North is approx 2 hours drive north of the Capital City of Wellington, with a population of approx 75,540. Our Centre is situated

Our current Occupancy is 74.85%.

Team Palmerston North

(L to R) Lynda Moore, Assistant Manager and Sue Solly, Manager

Donated Boxes Assist Ugandans Over the last year Kennards Self Storage have been continually helping out HUG (Helping Ugandan Generations) with the donation of boxes to pack their donated items in for the children of Uganda.

Alot of donations this time round went to Sanyu Babies Home, where unfortunately many abandoned children are left outside the gates on a regular basis. Many others have HIV and require a lot of medical aid and attention. As well as providing donated goods, HUG will focus on raising funds to help build schools, as many children can not afford to go to school. The work of Cate Altamura (the founder of HUG) is nothing short of amazing. Her dedication to helping these families and their children is selfless and compassionate. Kennards Self Storage will continue to help Cate and HUG. Its amazing how a few boxes can make such a huge difference. Sharon Dux

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Kennards Kourier October 2009