“I cannot believe that after two years that my second training with IOMI could be so informative and educational ... My people came out rejuvenated ... Thank you...”
Bill Owens
Executive Vice President
Midwest Moving & Storage
Two Men And A Truck's Annual Meeting
MARCH 16, 2008 -- (L-R) Mara Crofoot, Jeffrey Crofoot from northern Michigan, and Steve Black from Minneapolis, MN hear Ed Katz, head of the International Office Moving Institute, explain the benefits of becoming an office mover during Two Men And A Truck's Annual Meeting held in Birmingham, AL.
Homeland Security hits home
Chief Craig Millsap of the Bartow County Georgia Fire Department trains a delegation of key JK Moving & Storage personnel in the eye-opening role office movers play in Homeland Security during the company's recertification by the International Office Moving Institute (IOMI) as Certified Office Movers. Homeland Security is the newest certification program offered by IOMI.
Graebel Atlanta's Moses Hurt, Jr. (left), senior project manager, and Darrin Felton, senior supervisor, stretchwrap furniture under the watchful eye of IOMI Instructor Ed Katz during a surprise performance audit.
BMG sets standard in the UK
BMG Branch Manager Dave Stacey, left, oversees an office move in downtown Reading, England. Using Mat-A-Doors® emblazoned with the company logo, BMG safeguards against damage to office doors and jambs. Since all key employees serving the company's seven UK markets recently completed Certification Training for the fifth year in row, the company offers consistent office moving standards throughout the UK.
Richard Bitterman, left, owner of Vic's Moving & Storage in Kansas City, MO, and helpers load the company's Spider Crane® before moving Chicago Title's Olathe, KS office. The Spider Crane® lifts fully loaded lateral files, relieving customers of the drudgery and downtime associated with packing up the contents.
Kris Smurda (left) presents Gustavo Perez, project manager, with an award for being the best instructor during IOMI recertification training as Steve Kuhn, executive vice president of JK Moving & Storage looks on. Nearly 100 of JK's movers formed teams to compete in a simulated but full-fledged office move at the company's Sterling, VA facility. Smurda, JK's commercial operations manager, devised the contest and coordinated with IOMI to earn JK's recertification as Certified Office Movers for the seventh year in a row.
Chris Bortnichak, corporate training coordinator for Two Men And A Truck, straps down furniture blankets on a full-size mock-up of a moving van at the company's new training center in Lansing, MI. The center also includes a two story house complete with appliances, a piano, clothes in the closets, and dishes and other breakables in the cabinets. To meet corporate's high standards, trainee-packed dish barrels are tossed off the back of the moving van. They pass if nothing breaks. Training took center stage at the company's 11th Annual CSR/Mover/Manager Meeting April 11 and 12.
Follow me
MARCH 22 - 27, 2006 - Luis Toledo, president of Midwest Moving & Storage in Elk Grove Village, IL believes quality depends on hands-on management as he leads his army of movers from the trenches.
JAN 19, 2006 - President George W. Bush honors JK Moving & Storage by holding a Town Hall Meeting at their facility in Sterling, VA. The president selected JK for the invitation-only event for their small business success story.
The Mat-A-Doors provide a unique marketing advantage, because they scream “We Care” about the building and the furniture we are moving, and the really great thing is it prevents costly claims. When you get a one-two punch like this it makes you realize how much it pays to build the better mouse trap! Kudos, Ed Katz, you have done it again.
Scott McNelley
Admiral Movers / American Red Ball
Montgomery, AL
Apex reaches new heights
Apex Mat-A-Doors® are popping up all over Nashville, TN as the company's 10 new sets of elevator and entryway door protectors go into service. Here, two Mat-A-Door® panels, freshly decaled with Apex's custom design, protect the lobby side elevator door jambs and adjacent walls of an office building. In the inset, an Apex Mat-A-Door® is folded and ready to carry or store. After recently earning its Certified Mover certificate from the International Office Moving Institute and now with its fleet of Mat-A-Doors®, Apex is ready to live up to its lofty name.
Thumbs-up for Vic's
President of Vic's Moving & Storage, Richard Bitterman, gets a thumbs-up from security at the TransAmerica building for using The Mat-A-Door® to protect Kansas City's largest office building lobby-side elevator entrances from damage. As part of their extensive building protection program, Vic's also uses The Mat-A-Door® to protect interior and exterior glass entrance doors and wooden office doors.
“After completing a high profile office move into the Transamerica Building, the largest office building in Kansas City, the building’s property manager called and thanked me for the superb job we did in his building. According to him, his security and cleaning personnel as well as one of his tenants called him Monday morning to praise the way Vic’s prevented his building from being damaged. I’m convinced that it’s our use of The Mat-A-Doors® that continues to get us this favorable attention. Building managers love them, love us for using them, and then recommend us to their tenants when they have a move,” said Bitterman
