With more than 40 million U.S. viewers, The Rose Parade can rightly
claim a fan base that covers all walks of life and all parts of the
country. These fans eagerly tune in to see their favorites and to see
what’s new. First-time Rose Parade entrant Public Storage (NYSE:PSA)
delivers a huge measure of “what’s new” with its float “Adventures in
Space.”
Visit the link below to see a rendering of the float: http://www.huertaquorum.com/marketing/publicstorage/Adventures-in-Space.jpg
For the first time in The Rose Parade’s 125-year history, a
participant’s employees in locations across the country are decorating a
section of the float. Since everyone could not make it to
Pasadena—Public Storage has 5,000 employees in 38 states with over 2,200
locations—a piece of the float was shipped to 33 Regional offices. Each
piece represents a letter in an alien alphabet which the employees
decorated with yellow straw flowers and then shipped back to Pasadena.
When assembled on the mother ship’s control board, the letters spell out
a secret message that has led three whimsical aliens to arrive in
Pasadena on New Year’s Day!
The message will be discovered as the float’s animation unfolds
revealing yet another first for the parade. This still-secret animation
has warranted one of only two coveted extended-airtimes in the two-hour,
five-mile long parade.
For more information, key access and assets, please contact Barbara
Cocks, President and Creative Director, H.Q., (818) 243-6800, Ext. 108
or Barbara.c@huertaquorum.com.
Company Information
Public Storage, a member of the S&P 500 and FT Global 500, is a fully
integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment
trust that primarily acquires, develops, owns and operates self-storage
facilities. The Company’s headquarters are located in Glendale,
California. At September 30, 2013, the Company had interests in 2,110
self-storage facilities located in 38 states with approximately 135
million net rentable square feet in the United States and 188 storage
facilities located in seven Western European nations with approximately
ten million net rentable square feet operated under the “Shurgard”
brand. The Company also owns a 43% common equity interest in PS Business
Parks, Inc. (NYSE:PSB) which owned and operated approximately 28.6
million rentable square feet of commercial space, primarily flex,
multi-tenant office and industrial space, at September 30, 2013.
Additional information about Public Storage is available on the
Internet. The Company’s web site is www.publicstorage.com.
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