Joleen Lauffer is executive vice president at Aires in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Aires is a Relocation Management Company (RMC) with its roots firmly planted in the moving industry. Steve Jordan talked to her about COVID-19 and the long-term outlook for the industry.

Charles White, President of IAM, was centre stage (if that’s the right expression) for his traditional ‘State of IAM’ address during the virtual IAM conference in October. It was a somewhat strange environment for Chuck, to be speaking without an audience, but he carried it off well.

I was there … were you? By Editor Steve Jordan.

Steve Jordan interviews Anne Bradley and Simon Kirby from Agility as the MOD contract turns 10 years old and COVID-19 takes its toll.

Can this be right? Steve Jordan asks whether the practice of RMCs paying movers only after they have been paid by their corporate account clients is right.

The chief financial officer (CFO) will emerge as one of the C-suite’s most critical roles in reframing the future of the enterprise post the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, according to the 2020 EY DNA of the CFO, a survey of more than 800 global CFOs and senior finance executives.

NAEA Propertymark has joined forces with sector partners to write to the UK Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to highlight the emerging crisis in residential transactions, as sales progression and conveyancing are overwhelmed by demand in the race to complete before the end of the Stamp Duty Holiday on 31 March 2021.

Loading bay equipment manufacturer, Thornworld Industries, has introduced a new, low-cost Standard Ramp to its range.

Kangaroo Holdings Ltd, the owner of Scotland’s Kangaroo Self Storage and sister company Smart Storage, with units across North West England, has appointed Scott Christie as non-executive chairman.

Nuss Relocations Australia has announced it has attained ISO 27001 certification, the international Standard for the management of information security. This is the latest addition to Nuss Relocation’s ISO-related achievements.

This year marks 35-years since weighing equipment specialist RAVAS introduced the first weighing hand pallet truck. To mark the occasion the company is offering a limited-edition pallet truck, at a special price of €1,235 until 31 January, 2021.

I’ve seen some sites …

Euromoving 2000 has announced a merger with the Phoenix Relocation Group SRL. The Milan-based company joined the Group on 30 September, 2020.

The Iraqi Customs authorities have suspended tax exemption approvals for Diplomatic, Government, Humanitarian and Military shipments destined for all areas across Iraq.

Suddath has announced the appointment of Jira Sansom as the new general manager for its Dallas-Fort Worth branch.

Voxme has rolled out label printing from its packing inventory app, Voxme Inventory, on both Apple and Android platforms.

UK-based Simpson Packaging has added a super-size 65” TV cover to its popular Coversafe product range.

Volvo Trucks says hauliers and transport buyers are increasingly interested in reducing their CO2 emissions and costs, through the use of refrigerated liquefied gas as a fuel.

Stew Tomkins joined Tippet Richardson (TR) in May 1966 at the Ottawa office managing the payroll for all hourly employees as well as accounts payable.