G&R Removals, a piano moving specialist from London, has announced some structural changes that the company says will provide uniform service standards for piano movements across Europe.

In a letter to his customers Lance Green from G&R said that the market for pianos, grand pianos and similar instruments had contracted in recent years and the ecomomic situation that continues in much of Europe has meant that it cannot be expected to improve in the short term. 

 

“For this reason the companies G&R Ltd in London, Griffioen Transport B.V. in Bodegraven and P&M Logistics GmbH in Lichtenfels have decided to intensify and extend their existing partnership,” said Lance.  “The aim of this cooperation is to sustain present services for the ‘piano sector’ through the improvement of synergies and cost limitations whilst maintaining said services. In order to accomplish this, the three companies have agreed upon the following procedure from January 2014 onwards.”

 

In future G&R Ltd will handle collection and distribution of all instruments in Great Britain; Griffioen Transport B.V. will look after the collection and distribution of all instruments in the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France; with P&M Logistics GmbH handling the collection and distribution in the rest of the European countries, especially Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the line haul between the three partners.

 

Lance said that customer relationships will remain unaffected and customers will keep the same contact person. “The results of the partnership will be assessed closely by the three companies,” he said.  “The three partners have the intention to extend the European network with more partners in the medium run, assuming that this assessment will be a positive one. This network will provide the piano sector with logistical services based on uniform service and quality standards.”

 

Photo: G & R Removals loading a piano.