eKourier April 2017

FEATURES

Australasian Wine Loving Tribes Help Us Reach 90% Occupancy

Customer Feedback “A particular mention regarding Jay in the office at Rozelle. He made everything very easy for us and nothing seemed to be a problem. He went over and above what he needed to in order to help us get our stuff in and out of storage without us physically being there. Top work.” “I would like to say a big thanks to Cory at Ultimo who helped me out yesterday. My removalists were running late and I almost missed the cut off time but he stayed behind longer than he needed to so I could unload my items into storage. Thanks Cory! You are the best.” “The staff really took the stress out of the whole process and were very helpful at Wellington. A real pleasure to deal with. The website was so easy to navigate and decide on the size I thought I would need.” “Very good. Extremely professional staff. Phil in particular very helpful at the Waterloo desk. Everything is clean and organised. Very refreshing.” “Very friendly and helpful from first phone call talking to Di, and Wayne at Virginia Kennards Storage centre, assisting with a smooth check in service and orientation. This is the fourth time I have used Kennards at Virginia, always professional.” “Very good. Katie at Three Kings not only kept in contact with us, but she also stayed behind to let us in as we were running late getting there. This consideration meant a huge deal on a very stressful day for us.” “The new St Marys branch is fantastic. Very helpful and pleasant staff member. Will definitely recommend this storage site to friends.” “Very good at Thornleigh. Nicole was very welcoming, accommodating, and helpful, thanks!”

A s the Australasian tribe of wine lovers grows, the need for a space to cellar their wine is heating up... or should I say cooling down in our climate controlled wine cellars!

another goal and reached 90% for the first time. In addition to the increased occupancy, the portfolio also increased its income by 14% year on year. Our response to the increased popularity of our private wine cellars has been to build MORE! We are really excited about our new locations as they are opening up an offsite wine cellaring solution, previously unavailable to these areas. For example, Customers have been telling us for years that there is nothing available for them in the ACT region. So we listened to them and we opened the first state of the art private wine cellar in Fyshwick in January. By opening this site we are allowing more wine lovers to join the game of collecting. This also helps the wine industry by increasing wine sales. Our Hawthorn location came out of the intense growth we have seen in the Victorian market, with our other four wine cellars almost full now. The Melbourne wine lovers are on their way to taking over the size of the Sydney market. This cellar will be open for business in May 2017. Our new Miranda wine cellar is the first to the Sutherland Shire and the only cellars available south of the Sydney CBD. We had a beautiful underground space so it made perfect sense. This was the first of our new cellars to open, just before Christmas. With these new cellars we now have the capacity to store almost two Million bottles of wine, in 3,300 cellars, across 19 locations in Australia and New Zealand. Lynda Walsh

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Kennards Wine Storage has been listening to our wine loving tribe and expanding our cellars into new neighbourhoods around Australia. The past five years has seen strong growth in the need for private wine cellars as the trend for collecting and cellaring wine grows. ‘ have the capacity to store almost two million bottles of wine...

Wine Cellaring Business Development Manager

In January the wine portfolio smashed

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