According to the PHS Group, whilst there are some positive signs that the economy is slowly improving, these alone won’t be enough for businesses to succeed in 2014.

Every moving company has had to work out how to survive the recent bad times and manage the recovery. But for family firm Pete Holbrook Removals on the Isle of Wight, it wasn’t just the economy that struck a blow – fate dealt a hand too. By Steve Jordan

As Amazon launches its own virtual currency, the Amazon Coin and Apple’s iTunes passes its four billionth download, consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about what happens to their digital assets after they have passed away. Barry Rogers, Head of Private Clients at Tollers provides advice.

When selling a company, the usual items are generally considered by both parties such as purchase price, banking matters, and the list of assets. However, often the most valuable asset is left unmentioned; intellectual property. Here Joanna McKenzie from Keystone Law offers some advice.

When the weather makes it difficult to travel, employers and employees should consider how this could impact the workplace. ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) suggests the following key points for consideration:

Flame Recruit started providing recruitment services for the moving industry in May 2013. As the company takes on more staff and moves to new offices, Steve Jordan talked to the company’s MD, Ray Inskip, to check on progress.

The December issue of The Mover reported on the Mover Conference at Silverstone. There was far too much going on at the conference to include in one issue of the magazine so, to complete the picture, here’s part two that looks at the media and how to use it, and includes an interview with Rennie Schafer, from the Self Storage Association.

The moving industry is full of people like Tony Richman. People who were born into the business, joined the family firm when they left school, did every job that there was to do and ended up, inevitably perhaps, running the company. That part of Tony’s story is not unusual. What came next, is extraordinary. Steve Jordan caught up with the moving industry’s European connection to find out more.

Did you know that Canada takes up 2% of the planet Earth’s land surface? Yet it has one of the world’s lowest population densities at 9 people per square mile? It’s a land of wonderful and beautiful contradictions.

Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu.

According to a new housing market forecast report from property services company, Hamptons International, the UK housing market will experience double digit growth in the next three years, bringing the number of transactions back above one million by 2016.

A new study reveals the UK hotspots where it takes the least amount of time to sell a home.

A haulage company has reduced its annual insurance bill by more than £25,000 since installing its fleet with Smart Witness incident cameras.

John Mason International’s head office staff participated in this year’s Wear it Pink on 25 October, 2013.

Harrow Green, has won a contract to relocate Airbus UK to a new multi-million pound engineering and technology campus in Filton.

Janus International Corporation has announced its full acquisition of Gliderol Self Storage Solutions of Peterlee, United Kingdom.

Pickfords was contracted earlier this year by Leicester NHS Hospitals Trust to handle the relocation of the Respiratory Medicine departmental laboratory at Glenfield Hospital to its new home at the Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit.

Moving etc is running a survey to see what people think of the industry’s trade associations.

When Nicholas Nkuna who plays Simba in the stage musical The Lion King needed to transport his personal effects from Birmingham in the UK to Johannesburg, he called on Anglo Pacific to make sure everything arrived safely.