When we look at business needs, beyond the basics of where to locate the office, registered or not, if different from the place where the actual work or service is carried out, there may be a need for storage facilities. Not every product is going to be finished, inspected, packed and sent out on the same day. Of course, where products are made, there needs to be some form of storage of the parts/ingredients/materials required. There are other issues needing storage too in this time of higher security needs. Document and archive storage is very important but often gets overlooked util the existing storage gets to the point of overflow and panic looms. For this particular nugget, there are climate controlled facilities expressly designed to hold these precious items which will probably include business and staff records; files of information, board meeting minutes and perhaps accounting records. Historic items may also need a home, perhaps photos of the previous generation who ran the business from scratch and never thought about the legacy side of it all.
In addition to these could be added container storage which generally involves large steel shipping containers which are spacious and very accommodating, if not particularly attractive. When a larger quantity of matter is concerned then a managed warehousing system is probably the answer. This involves inventory management, pallet racking and in the case of high value or rare/uncommon products, then professional security patrols may be involved.
