Who could have thought that a successful company averaging 50 percent annual growth would have sprouted from simple diligence and a dining room table? But it did.

In 1993, Michael Branon, owner and chairman of the board of Mako Steel Inc. set out to begin a niche company focusing on the self-storage construction market. He was joined a year later by president Caesar Wright. The two, who had previously worked for four years together at another company, have been making it all work ever since.

According to Branon, when the self-storage industry began to boom in the late 1980s, he began to focus on the new opportunity. “I had come from a commercial/industrial, metal-building background,” he says, “and discovered that self-storage appeared to have a much greater upside due to its inherent tax advantages, risk aversion and potential demand. Mako Steel simply developed enough expertise to tap the demand and provide its clients with a high level of service to ensure repeat business in the future.”

Proven Success. Demonstrated Results.