The government is launching a consultation on providing two new tax reliefs to encourage and support the creation and growth of employee-owned companies.

Britannia Bradshaw International Removals & Storage and BCL Office Moving are taking charity support and fundraising to a new level – by each painting a removals truck shocking pink in support of their new charity partner, Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention.

The Freight Transport Association and Road Haulage Association have welcomed the Driving Standards Agency’s consultation on the possibility of exempting technicians taking vehicles to test from the scope of the Driver CPC.

Move-it Channelmoving has recently launched a new website giving customers for the French market the opportunity of receiving online quotations using a rather whizzy drag and drop feature.

Robinsons Relocation has become the first relocation company in the UK to be awarded the EuRA Global Quality Seal for DSP services.

Registration for The Movers and Storers Show 2013, 22-23 October, is now open at www.themoversandstorersshow.co.uk

To celebrate its 25 years in business insurance brokers Pound Gates has woven the 25-year theme in to a range of corporate social responsibility and fund raising activities. On the last Sunday in June a team of 75 staff, friends and families completed The Orwell Walk.

Department for Transport will increase fixed penalties for motoring offences from 16 August 2013. The increases were made following a public consultation in 2012 and included road safety groups and police services.

The high and sustained levels of parking fines on delivery vehicles in London are a sign of policy failure rather than successful enforcement, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has told the House of Commons Transport Select Committee. The Committee was taking oral evidence on the impact and costs of local authority parking enforcement on business from witnesses including FTA’s Managing Director of Policy & Communications, James Hookham.

Harrow Green has developed a way of moving commercial freezers over long distances while keeping their contents inside temperature controlled. An innovative device converts the vehicle’s power supply enabling the freezer to function normally during its journey.

Both Halifax and the Nationwide reported significant increases in house prices for the year to the end of June with the Halifax recording its highest rate of increase since August 2010 at 3.7%.

Did you know that more than 7,500 people of all ages across the United Kingdom are waiting for an organ transplant?

Amersham Town Council announced its winners of the 2013 Citizen of the Year awards with removals company Clarks of Amersham winning this year’s Business Award for services to the community.

There are lots and lots of recruitment agencies, in the UK alone there are over 135,000. But what’s the point of using an agency when you can simply advertise for the people you need and do the whole thing yourself? Ray Inskip, managing director of Flame Recruit, explains some of the reasons why using an agency – for both the employer and employee - makes sense.

Twickenham based Central Moves started life in 1997 when Scott Rust left his job working for a small family removals company, bought a small panel van and began sub contacting for some of the larger removals companies in the area. “The contract work helped pay the bills in those early days and I was able to build up my own business at the same time,” said Scott.

Most businesses strive to deliver excellent customer service and to operate as efficiently as they can.

On 22-26 May, 2013, in the timeless city of Istanbul, Thomas Juchum, Manager of the Head Office of EUROMOVERS International, welcomed delegates to the 9th EUROMOVERS conference in the classic Ottoman Legacy Hotel. It was a perfect venue for what is always a friendly and productive meeting of the EUROMOVERS family.

Time to be inspired

By Kirsty Terry, recruitment expert at Milestone Operations

The Mover magazine’s Nikki Gee moved house recently. On this occasion she chose to use a removal company as opposed to braving the ad hoc route of hiring a van, a willing pal and a heap of potential bother. We spoke to her about whether or not the famous myth ‘Moving house is as stressful as getting married’ came to pass.