Features

  • How a budding football star found success in removals

    Aug 08, 2022
    Deputy Editor, David Jordan talks to McGimpsey’s Michael Dunbar about how he moved from being a porter to a member of the company’s management team, and a few of the trips along the way.
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  • How you can help your customers sell their homes

    Aug 08, 2022
    Steve Jordan looks at a service that might help private movers sell their homes more quickly and get the moving process started.
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  • Looking forward at BAR

    Aug 08, 2022
    BAR Vice President Mike Andrews hosted a discussion at the BAR conference in Jersey to look at the future of the Association.
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  • Beating the cyber bullies

    Aug 08, 2022
    Cyber security can seem like a very dry subject, but Sam Parsons from the Regional Cyber Crime Unit of the South West Police made it anything but boring during the BAR Conference in Jersey.
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  • IAM looks forward to the next 60 years

    Aug 08, 2022
    Steve Jordan interviews Brian Limperopulos, IAM Vice President, as the world’s biggest moving association plans its 60th anniversary conference and asks whether the future will be more of the same, or not.
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  • Tony Allen: And finally... Exercising my thoughts

    Jul 17, 2022
    I don’t know about you, but after the rigours of the last few years I’m beginning to feel a bit frayed around the edges. I used to pride myself on keeping a reasonable fitness regime and a healthy diet, which of course leads to a healthy mind, but most of my good intensions seem to have gone out of the window, which incidentally needs cleaning.
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  • In search of the real Miss Haversham

    Jul 08, 2022
    When Alan Cartwright, Financial Director of EFM Global Logistics, decided to buy a cottage on the Isle of Wight as a holiday let, he had no idea that its original owner was very probably the inspiration for one of Charles Dickens’ most memorable and tragic characters.
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  • Paying the Real Living Wage

    Jul 08, 2022
    A compelling argument from Chris Smallwood of Anchor Removals in Manchester.
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  • The route to environmental sustainability

    Jul 06, 2022
    Steve Jordan talks to an RMC that takes an alternative view of sustainability by helping suppliers calculate their emissions to secure more work and a healthier environment.
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  • Training the industry

    Jul 06, 2022
    A look at the work of the FIDI Academy as it approaches 35 years as the industry’s leading training body.
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  • Bengt Jönsson: Building again in Sweden

    Jul 06, 2022
    Steve Jordan talks to Bengt Jönsson on his return to the industry
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  • Talking to Laura: FIDI's new president

    Jul 06, 2022
    Steve Jordan interviews Laura Ganon, the new FIDI president, about the job, the initiatives and her own style of Board management.
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  • ​EUROMOVERS International meets in Lisbon

    Jul 06, 2022
    A report by Steve Jordan on the first EUROMOVERS Conference in three years.
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  • BAR in Jersey

    Jul 06, 2022
    The British Association of Removers Conference is back. Steve Jordan reports on the event that took place on the beautiful island of Jersey, in May.
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  • Working with RMCs

    Jul 06, 2022
    The Young Movers Conference in Dublin in April focussed mainly on relationship building rather than more traditional plenary meetings. However, one panel discussion took a close look at the relationship between movers and Relocation Management Companies (RMCs), exploring the strengths of each and how they work together to provide services to corporate clients.
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  • Tony Allen: And finally... Caught napping!

    Jun 09, 2022
    “Well,” said the daughter as we were sitting in the garden some three weeks ago, “you and Mum are probably the only two people I know who haven’t had COVID!”
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  • A second chance

    Jun 07, 2022
    Steve Jordan explains how AMC removals in Ireland has used its contacts to create an extraordinary charitable initiative that is helping homeless people get their lives back on track. You can do it too.
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  • Painting the town green in Dublin

    Jun 07, 2022
    A report by Steve Jordan on the Young Movers Conference in the home of the craic.
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  • Living greener at Fully Charged LIVE

    Jun 07, 2022
    David Jordan reports from the Fully Charged LIVE event in Farnborough, UK, that is dedicated to greener living.
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  • FIDI is still standing

    Jun 07, 2022
    Steve Jordan reflects on the FIDI conference in Cannes as the event makes a welcome return following a three-year COVID-enforced break.
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