Global International Relocation from Portugal has announced the opening of a new branch in Lisbon.

IAM is hosting a Regional Meeting in conjunction with the British Association of Removers (BAR) Annual Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland May 18-20, 2015.

The Forum for Expatriate Management Hong Kong Chapter began 2015 with a networking event and presentation entitled ‘Insurance Needs for Globally Mobile Assignees’.

Eddie Goldsmith, Chairman of the Conveyancing Association, responds to the 2015 Budget announcement of a new Help to Buy ISA:

A - Staff Solutions Ltd’s removal specialist, Steve Fanning, is ditching boxes for running shoes as he limbers up to run the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday 26 April.

E-commerce businesses, notonthehighstreet.com, has recently moved its 200 staff from three separate sites in Richmond to new headquarters. Bishop’s Move won the contract.

Roy Church, the founder of Trafalgar cases died on 18 March.

Ted Philp, a statesman for the international moving industry in the UK, died suddenly at his home on Tuesday, 17th March.

D C Groves & Son from Tenterden in Kent has recently achieved the BS EN 14873 Standard for the storage of household and personal effects.

HGV operators should make 2015 the year of making themselves heard at Westminster, according to Bunkercard.

Global International Relocation, OMNI member in Portugal has announced the appointment of Luísa Piló as its new global relocation immigration manager.

Michael Killoran has been promoted to the position of chief financial officer of Arpin Group, replacing Edward Braks who has retired after 20 years of service.

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Intermovers Malaysia has been helping the 230,000 people evacuated as a result of the worst floods the country has seen in over 30 years that hit in December.

Global International Relocation from Portugal has announced the opening of a new branch in Lisbon.

Three days after thrashing Neil Robertson two games to ten at the Masters Snooker in Alexandra Palace, Shaun ‘The Magician’ Murphy, he moved house.

Crown Fine Art is understood to have become the first major fine art handling company to achieve the international standard for health and safety in the UK.

After our request in the January issue of The Mover, in the wake of the tragedy in Knightsbridge, for ideas about how a professional mover would have tackled the problem of lifting a sofa over railings, the response has been unequivocal: you wouldn’t do it at all without a hoist.

Software developer Merlin Law has launched a free service which promises to shed some long-overdue light on the murky world of moving house.

Commercial moving specialist Relocate London (UK) Ltd has joined the Alliance of Independent Movers (AIM), the first member to join the organisation’s Commercial Moving Group.