Now we are all slowly coming out of enforced isolation, one wonders how standards have suffered? This applies as much to personal standards as it does to business ones.

A new report from the STEP Project Global Consortium and KPMG Private Enterprise has demonstrated how the unique structure of family businesses has empowered them to respond to the impact of COVID-19.

Steve Jordan looks at the benefits of experience and the impetuousness of youth and considers what it is the moving industry needs now.

In this Q&A article, Brielle Jones, Manager Marketing and Sales for TriGlobal, gives her opinion about some of the challenges faced by moving companies worldwide as the world changes, and what they might do to meet them.

In this Q&A-style interview, Rennie Schaefer, Chief Executive Officer at Self Storage Association UK and FEDESSA, talks to Mike Wilson, CEO of SureStore, about institutional investors, expansion, 5th-generation stores, finding good sites and post-COVID challenges.

Kristin White, Senior Manager, Content and Campaign Strategy for Sterling Lexicon, looks at how the increased flexibility available from remote working raises opportunities and challenges.

Lynn Shotwell is the president and CEO of Worldwide ERC (Employee Relocation Council). She’s been in her new role since March 2020, an interesting time for anyone to have a change of job. Steve Jordan spoke to her about the new world of relocation, how it has changed and how will it continue to operate in the future.

Steve Jordan interviews Casey Phelps of Graebel following the company’s release of an extraordinary survey report showing that COVID has made people want to move with work more than in the past, not less.

Highland cattle seem to revel in having long hair - I’m afraid I don’t! As far as us Homo sapiens are concerned it’s very much a male/female thing I suppose.

In these difficult times, former professional rugby player Lee Robinson and his team at Leicester Movers & Storers thought it timely to inject a bit of humour amidst the chaos, with a look back at some of the weirdest and most memorable removals they’ve worked on in the past year.

Sarah Manning, Managing Director of container supplier Secure Stores Nationwide, explains the reasons for the shortage and how long it is likely to last.

Raul Quintanar of lead generation specialist TriGlobal offers some advice on how to make the most of your digital marketing.

One morning, about twenty years ago, Mike Devereux woke from a nightmare in a cold sweat. During his terrifying dream he had seen his container store in Cleveland go up in smoke and turned into a charred smouldering ruin.

David Jordan looks at the GDPR issues around the recent rise in remote surveys.

Steve Jordan talks to Angels Gallardo from Inter S&R in Barcelona as she talks about taking the helm of her mother’s company and steering a course through the pandemic storm.

Why volume discounts are making quality obsolete in the moving industry, by Larry Kruger, McWilliams Moving & Storage, Canada.

Venezuela is a country in crisis. Despite having the world’s largest known oil reserves the country has been wracked by a bitter power struggle between its socialist president Nicolás Maduro - elected in 2013 by just 1.6 percentage points – and opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself acting president on 23 January 2019.

Sebastian Laporta from Ward Van Lines in Chile looks at how the use of a risk matrix can help people negotiate life’s difficulties.

Steve Jordan talks to Heidi Rasmussen, Managing Director of Alfa Quality Moving in Denmark, about her company’s recent acquisition of Settwell Relocation.

According to certification organisation QSS, there has been a marked increase in enquiries for ISO 22301 – the Standard for Business Continuity Planning – since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.