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Public Storage grew steadily in the early 2000s [20] and was added to the S&P 500 in 2005. [15] In 2006 it acquired Shurgard Storage Centers in a transaction totaling $5.5 billion, acquiring 624 locations, including 141 in Europe. [21] [22] Public Storage had attempted to acquire the company in 2000 and again in 2005, but its offers were rejected.
The Lock Up was founded in 1976 by Robert Soudan and Charles Sample, who built their first self-storage facility in Northbrook, Illinois. Later, Soudan’s son, Bob Soudan, Jr., took over as president of The Lock Up. Soudan Jr. has also served as regional president, director and national president of the Self Storage Association.
Electro Rent was founded in 1965. [2]In 2010, Electro Rent LLC paid approximately $26.7 million in cash to acquire privately-held Telogy, a competitor that filed for bankruptcy protection earlier that year and was at that time based in Union City, California.
StorageMart. StorageMart is a chain of self-storage facilities headquartered in Columbia, Missouri [1] that operates facilities across the United States, Canada and the UK. . StorageMart was founded in 1999 by Gordon Burnam, who had been involved in the self-storage industry since
Platinum Equity, LLC is an American private equity investment firm founded by Tom Gores in 1995, headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. The firm focuses on leveraged buyout investments of established companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
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Anglo American plc is a British multinational mining company with headquarters in London, England.It is the world's largest producer of platinum, with around 40% of world output, as well as being a major producer of diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore, polyhalite and steelmaking coal.
Tom Gores (born Tewfiq Georgious, [2] Arabic: توفيق جورجيوس; July 31, 1964) [3] is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder of Platinum Equity, a private equity firm headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.