Building Billion Dollar Storage with Sam Kennard
Welcome to Newcastle Unlocked. Host Brent Sinclair sits down with Sam Kennard, rich lister and CEO of Kennards Self Storage, the family-owned pioneer of self-storage in Australia since 1973.
Under Sam's leadership, Kennards has scaled to 126 locations across Australia and New Zealand, offering ~101,000 storage spaces and ~920,000 m² of rentable space, including a recent $400M NZD acquisition of 13 sites in Auckland.
We unpack:
1. How Kennards started as a side hustle and became a national powerhouse
2. Sam's journey to CEO at 25 and lessons from decades of growth
3. Development DNA vs…
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