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Achieving Substantial Savings on Document Storage Facilities

If any supplier can show you a 30% annual saving, they are worth seeing!

And that is exactly what Secure Data Management did for London based lawfirm Pritchard Englefield. Secure Data saved £178,000 over five years in whatwas considered an essential service but also a dead cost - archive storage.

Due to Secure Data’s unique low cost business model developed over 20 years of dealing with financial directors, Secure Data have a perfect grasp of the balance between savings and service delivery.

Secure Data, has a proven track record, in auditing (reducing storage), costs saving and delivering better services.

Industry Facts

Fact - 90% of financial directors have not reviewed their archive storage arrangements within the last three years.
Fact - if you are paying on average £30 per sq ft for office space, 10 filing cabinets will be costing your company
£11,000 per year in rent
Fact - The average professional spends six weeks per year searching for mis-filed documents.
Fact - It is estimated that UK companies alone, spend over £500m per year to store documents.
Fact - 50% of documents stored are either un-retreivable due to poor archiving information or do not need to
be stored at all.

Marc Chauveau, founder and Managing Director of Secure Data cut his teeth in the most difficult arena,
having to keep the facilities managers happy but also please the finance directors. “We are often called in by
facilities managers to sort out their document storage problems which isthe simple part. The hardest bit was
clients’ annual document storage costs by at least 30%.

Annual savings were nearly £1 million for the same capacity warehouses - Secure Data went even further and discovered a whole market for “used”racking.

As most financial directors know, installing racking is a costly business but it has no second hand value, often
costing more to remove than sell.

Secure Data sourced only the very best used racking, the latest batch came from the administrators of a cash and carry business that had only installed the new racking eight months. previously. The saving achieved were
huge, the estimated racking costs were halved from £2m to less than £1m after the erection costs.

Secure Data has truly created a unique solution to what is becoming a major business problem.
All Secure Data’s clients grow on average at 20% per annum so this problem will not go away - its here to
stay and only by choosing a service provider who manages your savings and service delivery by thinking
differently will this problem be manageable for your business and your profits.

Secure Data have thought differently and they deserve the success they are achieving.