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Article: thru the VALLEYS
- Article from:
- Quad - State Business Journal
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright News for Business, Inc. Feb 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Podzilla Appears
PODS have finally come into the Quad-state region, as Steve DuBrueler has purchased a franchise territory that extends from Harrisonburg to Hagerstown, east to several counties in the Virginia Piedmont region and west to the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia. "Our focus is on the 81 corridor," said DuBrueler. "We started January 3 and have been pretty busy."
Florida-based PODS, Inc., produces and its franchisees rent the "portable on demand storage" units to people and businesses that are moving household goods and equipment. The box-like, weatherproof containers, which are eight feet high, eight feet wide and either 16 or 12 feet long can be kept on site or loaded onto a ...