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Moving On Up

Mobile storage company Go Mini's takes the franchise route
Source: Illustration Š Andy Martin

In 2011 at the annual convention of dealers in Atlanta, the mood was pretty grim. The economy was lousy, the founders of the portable storage company were looking for an exit strategy, and competing national brands were leaving Go Mini's in the dust. That's when Mike Lohman, a Go Mini's dealer from Los Angeles, approached founders Bill and Sheila Norris with a plan to let the dealers buy the company

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