De Haan Relocation appoints Wouter Hijzen as its new CEO

De Haan in The Netherlands has appointed Wouter Hijzen as its new CEO.  Wouter has over 20 years of experience in international logistics at both TNT and Spring Global Mail. This year De Haan is celebrating 240 years in business.

Shareholder Michiel de Haan is very positive about Wouter ‘s arrival. “Wouter is a real people-person, and an entrepreneur with extensive international experience in the service industry, logistics and ICT,” he said.  “With his skill set and experience, we will continue to strengthen the foundations of what is already a successful two century-old family business.”

Wouter will be attending next IAM conference in Long Beach.  He can be contacted directly on wouter.hijzen@dehaan.nl.

The Asian Tigers Mobility is proud to announce joining forces with the WWF Singapore (World Wide Fund for Nature) to provide financial support for the T2X project.  T2X stands for doubling the number of tigers living in the wild by the year 2022.  That will be the next Year of the Tiger according to the Chinese calendar, and achieving that lofty goal will be significantly aided by ATM.

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Fernanda Viana joins GInter in Brazil

GInter (Granero International) in Brazil has announced the appointment of Fernanda Viana as its international sales manager focussing on the company’s offices in Sao Paulo, Miami and Rio de Janeiro.  Fernanda has ten years’ experience in the mobility industry.


Pic: Fernanda Viana

 

Niall Mackay

The death of Niall Mackay has just been announced by his company Gerson Relocation in London.  The statement received is as follows:

Many of you will be aware that Niall Mackay, our Managing Director, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer towards the end of July.

Since then he has been at home awaiting the start of chemotherapy. We know that during this period he contacted many of you to tell you about his situation.

Yesterday we received a call from his wife Jenny. His condition had worsened over a short period of time, and it is with immense sadness we must tell you that Niall, our friend and colleague, passed away on Tuesday morning.

This will be a great shock to all of you, as it has been to us, and of course all our thoughts and prayers go out to Jenny, Callum, and Georgia during the weeks ahead.

We will continue to monitor Niall’s work email for any messages that you may wish to send, and please feel free to use the office postal address for any cards. We will make sure that they are passed on to Jenny and the family.

John Mason International’s Moving Gang gains a new member

Global removal specialist John Mason International has extended its popular Moving Gang with a new family member – Lenny the Lion.

The ‘gang’ is a collection of cartoon characters designed to help younger movers relate to and cope with the experience of relocating abroad. And now Lenny the Lion has prowled onto the scene, to represent his home country – South Africa.

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United Van Lines agents ‘ride for those who died’

United Van Lines agents in the USA have supported police officers who have died in the line of duty with their annual Unity Tour for Fallen Police Officers.  The event took place on 12 May 2017 and involved 2,200 motorcycle riders from around the country converging on The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington DC.  Over the last 20 years the Unity Tour has raised $23 M for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.  Once again United Van Lines agents were honoured to logistically support.

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New e-book from Graebel helps mobility professionals

Graebel has launched a new e-book designed to help mobility professionals analyse their own mobility programmes and transform them into key differentiators for their companies.

The book looks at why mobility is important; what a good mobility programme can do for a company; who should be involved; the process of making it work and even takes a longer look at the future of workplace mobility.

Please click here to download the E-book.