Moving and Storage Business News

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- Selling Your College Business
- Crowley to offer warehousing in Gulfport
- Unscrupulous companies might change terms and take clients …
- Go Mini’s(R) Announces New Portable Moving & Storage Website

Selling Your College Business
msnbc.com
Chiefamong them: When how to whom and for how much do you sell?Josh Kowitt and Scott Neuberger learned the answers to many ofthese questions during their sale of CollegeBoxes the moving andstorage company they built while attending Washington University. After graduating in 2003 and 2004 respectively the two continuedgrowing the company. But by 2007 they were ready for a lifestylechange. “We were coming up on our eighth year in the business andlooking for some diversity in our lives” says Neuberger 28. Story continues below ?advertisement |.

Crowley to offer warehousing in Gulfport
Bizjournals.com
“This strategically located distribution center is well suited to serve shippers in the Southwest Midwest and Southeast looking to consolidate or deconsolidate loads for ocean transport” Steve Collar Crowley senior vice president and general manager of logistics said in a news release. “The Port of Gulfport has become a gateway for cargo moving between the U. and Central America and our customers will benefit from this facility and the myriad of services we will be able to offer. ”Crowley is a logistics and transportation company that is the holding company of. _7108B2C54DE249418D19DA741336F0AB.
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Unscrupulous companies might change terms and take clients …
Columbus Dispatch
They look legit (to) people who don’t know anything aboutmoving” said Justin Wilson of Move Rescue a consumer-assistance organization that helps trackinterstate moving companies. Tasha Bettis used an online referral service to find a mover when she relocated from Georgia toCleveland in 2007. She hired Atlanta-based Advantage Moving and Storage for $1460. As her belongings were being loaded the workmen demanded more money saying her things took upmore space than they expected. After they loaded and weighed the contents they demanded double theestimate. When she couldn’t pay the higher cost Advantage moved her things to a storage unit. In a panicBettis called her sister an assistant district attorney in Warner Robins Ga.

Go Mini’s(R) Announces New Portable Moving & Storage Website
FXBusiness
The Go Mini’s website is the result of more than six (6) months of strategic brand analysis and planning. “The Go Mini’s website reflects an effort to provide customers with state-of-the-art features to make their experience with portable moving and storage simple and hassle free” said Bill Norris CE of Go Mini’s. “Many consumers are still not familiar with the many advantages that portable moving and storage solutions offer over services provided by conventional moving companies and we wanted to provide the marketplace with a destination where they could learn how to make their move more affordable convenient and flexible. The new website was an obvious way to accomplish this goal” said Norris. When asked to comment on the new website Mr. Norris stated: “We wanted to try something a little different and provide individuals and business with tools and features previously unavailable in our industry. We just felt it was time for our industry to offer consumers the same types of applications that they’re used to seeing on other websites in other industries” Mr.