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Temporary Warehousing ■
Space enhancers
Kathy Jones of Spaciotempo looks at the advantages of temporary warehousing as a
means of coping with expansion and maximising available space.
Match business performance to spend:
Good year, bad year? If you suffer from a
poor year due to unforeseen circumstances
you can reduce your building spend by
returning the temporary building. If purchase
had been your option you would be taking the
hit year on year regardless of your profit line.
Save on rates: For short-term rental
contracts, probably up to six months, you can
save on lower or even exempt business rates.
Use your space profitably: Unused space
can be a disadvantage or an advantage.
Temporary buildings will allow you to
generate value from areas not normally used,
or avoid having facilities standing empty and
depreciating during periods of low activity
With fickle consumer demand driving the here’s how an aluminum framed temporary and demand.
markets it can be difficult to predict future building can help. Keep your customers: Customers,
storage, warehousing and operational particularly loyalty customers, are the life
requirements. Reduce spend, and save costs blood of any business, but what happens if
Although temporary aluminum framed Flexible hire contracts: When a hire contract you haven’t got the stock to meet their
buildings are now becoming a much is offered, you will have complete control demand? Response and installation times of
recognised and rapid solution when high over how much you spend. This will include literally days for aluminum framed buildings
unforeseen demand hits, few still recognise the type of structure and the hire period will avoid losing any business to hungry
the true commercial benefits they can bring to chosen. In short, the solution will be matched competitors poised to pounce.
a business. exactly to the existing volume of business. Reduce overheads: Fed up with paying for
Everyone wants to cut budget spend and No capital expenditure: No purchase off-site space? Bringing additional facilities
capitalising on growth opportunities such as means no large capital outlay and the on site will reduce those painful additional
increasing market share or developing new opportunity to feed hire charges into monthly overheads such as transport security and
products. Taking those two points in turn budgets. communication.
Avoid the expense of a permanent build:
Spaciotempo is a European specialist in the 5m to 40m wide, 3m to 8m high and any length
Spend less on foundations, services, labour
design, manufacture, hire and sale of temporary in multiples of 5m. With the ability to design,
and architects fees.
aluminium framed buildings. With offices and engineer and manufacture, the technical back-
stock holdings in UK, France and Spain, the up and resource is instantly available for its
company is able to provide rapid stock items or customers, as opposed to when using a third
bespoke design solutions throughout Europe. party supplier. Buildings are used for a range of
Up until November last year Spaciotempo UK applications including warehousing, storage,
was trading as the established and reputable workshops, production, distribution areas and
TempAstor; an independent company that canopies.
introduced aluminium frame building solutions Spaciotempo is part of the global group GL
to the UK markets over 20 years ago and had events, specialists in event and space
since dominated. management with offices throughout Europe,
Spaciotempo UK now provides buildings from USA, The Middle East and Asia.
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