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Jun 9 2009 by Kelley Price, Evening Gazette

DEMAND for a temporary home for students’ belongings has led to an increase in business for a Teesside storage company.

Box Clever targeted students at Teesside University who are leaving the region to return home for the summer.

The Billingham company is offering the secure solution as an alternative to leaving valuables unattended over the summer break.

Fiona Tinman, pictured, of Box Clever, said: “There are thousands of students who leave Teesside every summer but their belongings stay behind in rented accommodation or their parents pick them up.

“We went along to the university and got lots of inquiries, particularly from overseas students who are going to be out of the country for up three months. It’s a new market for us but one we realised was untapped, and we’re going back during Freshers’ Week to speak to the students again.”

Box Clever is one of the UK’s few mobile storage companies which means customers don’t have to rent a van. Instead, they bring the storage unit to a customer’s front door to fill before returning it to its storage depot.

Box Clever’s primary markets are businesses and traders looking to store away valuable equipment or machinery and property owners de-cluttering their homes.

It also offers an archiving service for the storage of documents and files.