When you relocate for work reasons often it isn’t easy to work out the true costs of the move. It is a game of chance in some cases and learning by your mistakes when you choose a utility company to use or figure the actual cost of buying or renting a home in the new location. This is changing due to new technology designed by a subsidiary of Atlas World Group Inc. Avail Move Management has created an internet-based tool that helps to provide the answers to the question of cost for a move and relocation.

In the first part of this two-part series, we discussed the story and celebration that marked Interstate Worldwide Relocation Services 70th anniversary, from the roots of the company to the hard-work that led to their tremendous success. In the final part of this great story, we will look a little deeper in to the inner workings of the family behind the business and share some secrets to their success over the years.

Hitting the 70th anniversary in regards to any walk of life is considered a very big and wonderful deal. But, in hitting the 70 year mark in the moving industry, now that’s considered a HUGE deal. And that’s precisely what Interstate Worldwide Relocation (Springfield, VA) found themselves celebrating this year!

Atlas Van Lines, one of the largest leaders of moving and transport services in the nation, is continuing to expand and strengthen its network of agencies across the United States and Canada. As part of an ambitious expansion strategy, Atlas is spreading its market share through additional and expanding CMSA member agencies.

The economic crisis has hit just about every market possible. And the moving industry is no exception. From local moves to the global moving market, it’s been hit hard and introduced a whole new debate over price and value. It is obvious that if you lower your prices you will get more business, be it local or global. However, when it comes to the issues the other markets are facing as well, value prevails.

The economic recession has taken its toll on corporate relocations. Twenty-five percent moving firms decreased their relocations in 2008 and 2009. In 2010, relocations were starting to increase, but the companies that specialize in such relocations were still not receiving the normal amount of business. On average, corporate relocation experts moved between 100 and 199 companies for the third year in a row, when, before the recession, they had between 200 and 399 relocations a year. But now, the number of relocations are increasing and starting to return to prerecessionary levels. So how do the experts get the business?