Moving and Storage Business News

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- Hawaii mobile-storage firms offer alternative to self-storage
- vcfo Helps The Albert Companies Achieve Record Revenue and Profits
- Shell to cut jobs as profits fall 70%
- 5 smart ways to save on the move back to school
- A moving solution
- Finding a Job but Moving a Family
- Roundabout ride

Hawaii mobile-storage firms offer alternative to self-storage
Pacific Business News
have a total of more than 1000 portable storage units rented on ahu. The units are either stored at homes and business sites or at the companies’ warehouses. In addition to offering long-term storage the companies say their units are popular as a short-term option for people who are moving. “We drop off the box give them a few days to load it pick it up and then deliver it when and wherever they want it” said Halona Brooks branch manager for Portabox Storage Hawaii. “It can be more convenient than having to rent a large truck transport their stuff to a facility and then have to rent a truck again when they need to retrieve their stuff. ”Both companies say business picks up during military deployments and when the real estate market is favorable for buying and selling. The average customer for both companies rents for six months.
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vcfo Helps The Albert Companies Achieve Record Revenue and Profits
Emediawire (press release)
About The Albert CompaniesThe Albert Companies service consumer corporate and government channels for relocations storage commercial distribution and records management. The company has operated in the moving and storage industry for over 70 years with the company headquarters located in Wichita Falls Texas. To learn more about The Albert Companies please visit.

Shell to cut jobs as profits fall 70%
guardian.co.uk
“There is ample energy supply and not enough demand” said Voser. “That is quite a turnaround from the picture a year ago. “The company also said it might freeze its dividend payout moving forward reflecting the low inflationary environment. Shell had earlier cheered investors by announcing it would pay a second-quarter dividend of $0. 42 a share up 5% from last year. Shell’s earnings measured on a current cost of supplies basis plunged to $2.

5 smart ways to save on the move back to school
Baltimore Sun
SHP ARUND With the recession now in its second year and fewer people moving overall many moving companies and truck rental agencies are offering discounts and special student rates. Xpress Movers offers students 10 percent off for example Michael’s Moving & Storage in Boston is offering students moving locally a truck with two movers for $79 per hour with a two-hour minimum. Some alumni associations also offer discounts for students. Locally based truck rental companies often offer the best prices in a given market. Among the Web sites that aggregate price quotes are www.

A moving solution
Globe and Mail
“We knew we needed something … and we wanted to have our say in how we wanted this product [to] work” she says. Move Complete is a Web-based application that allows AMJ’s salespeople to prepare estimates within customers’ homes using Hewlett-Packard PDAs running Windows CE explains AMJ chief financial officer Richard Smith who also oversees the IT department. nce estimates are approved the PDAs get synchronized on the salesperson’s laptop or desktop for central data storage. All the customer’s move information is then automatically transferred from the system sales module to the dispatch module where the move planning and execution process occurs. nce the move is complete data is uploaded to the accounting system for invoicing and collection. Move Complete runs on Windows 2003 Server and uses a Microsoft SQL Server database. It was written with ASP.

Finding a Job but Moving a Family
New York Times
The job match justified the move. I’m vice president of technology in the gas chromatographs division which makes instruments for analyzing chemical components of gases in harsh climates. I had been working at Xiotech a data storage company in Eden Prairie Minn. which acquired a company in 2007 and then ran into a rough patch. I knew that my position was in danger so I had been looking intermittently for other jobs anyway. I had never been laid off before. It was a bit of a shock but I’ve been a director or a vice president for almost 15 years and executives have large networks to draw on.

Roundabout ride
Philadelphia Inquirer
But with her husband watching and her daughter and two grandsons joining her onboard Fernandez can say she has ridden a carousel again – the same carousel. "To me it’s just a part of history of growing up" Fernandez said of the 52-animal 1296-bulb structure built by Philadelphia’s Dentzel Carousel Company in 1908. A fixture at Woodside Park until the grounds’ closure in 1955 the carousel was exiled to a storage warehouse in Gilbertville Mass. for more than 40 years then reintroduced last ctober at the Please Touch Museum in Fairmount Park after a $1. 2 million refurbishment. "It’s just a work of art" Fernandez said. Fernandez was there for the twilight of the carousel age in Philadelphia around the Eisenhower administration.