A Leader in Relocation
For nearly a century, Cord Moving Company and Storage has been the mover of choice for more than 20,000 families a year and many of America’s Fortune 500 companies. Whether you are moving yourself or you are a corporation looking to relocate your employees or offices, Cord Moving Company and Storage an Agent for North […]
Is the Real Estate Coming Back Regionally or Nationally?
South Florida has been the default capital of the country. In Miami-Dade County, one out of five households with mortgages is in foreclosure. Nearby Broward and Palm Beach counties are not far behind. Nearly 200,000 South Florida families are stuck in the mire of default. And yet as Cord Moving Company and Storage a company that carefully […]
Cord Moving Company and Storage Reports that International Shipping Gets a Boost
Dean Kraatz the international expert for Cord Moving Company and Storage reported this morning that The Panama Canal Authority and the Tampa Port Authority have agreed to extend their cooperative agreement to bolster trade. The renewed agreement will focus on sharing data and information to forecast trade flows, market studies aimed at product development or […]
Budget Crisis Impacts the Moving and Storage Industry
The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has signed off on a five-year construction plan that is roughly half the size it was in past years. State officials said Wednesday that they plan to spend about $600 million a year on road construction through June 30, 2016, instead of the prior average of $1.2 billion. Cord […]
Competing for Your Prospect’s Attention
How are you competing for your prospect’s attention? In the moving industry we have found at Cord Moving Company and Storage a North American Agent – Corporate decision-makers aren’t just struggling with an immense workload. Every single day they’re bombarded with thousands of marketing messages coming at them from every direction — television, road signs, […]
The Moving Industry Holds Their Breath
Bank of America has agreed to pay $8.5 billion to more than 20 large investors including MetLife, BlackRock and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to settle claims related to losses on mortgage securities bought before the housing bubble burst, The Wall Street Journal reports. The payment exceeds the total profits of the Charlotte, […]
Jobs that are not coming back
Many have expressed shock at the recent U.S. employment data. But 9.1% unemployment shouldn’t be a surprise. To address the jobs challenge, we must stop pretending that this is only a difficult cyclical recovery. The root of the problem is structural. During the two decades before the crisis of 2008-09, the U.S. economy added 27 […]
Saint Louis Commercial Property Trends
The Commercial Division of Cord Moving Storage led by Charlie Wormek watch the trends constantly just because that is what he does and he is happy to report that the St. Louis Industrial market ended the first quarter 2011 with a vacancy rate of 8.0%. The vacancy rate was down over the previous quarter, with net absorption […]
Cord Moving Company and Storage and North American Van Lines Says NO to The “Low Bar” Mentality – Recognizing and Overcoming Mediocrity in Customer Service Experience…
Cord Moving Company and Storage and North American Van Lines Says NO to The “Low Bar” Mentality – Recognizing and overcoming mediocrity in customer service experience… An appliance repairman or cable television technician shows up with just ten minutes remaining in his four-hour schedule window and we’re relieved. A waitress makes no mistakes in our […]
Disaster Contingency Planning is a Necessity
Earthquakes in Japan, floods in Australia and throughout South America and now a series of devastating tornadoes in America’s mid-west – if supply chain risk wasn’t topping agendas at the start of the year, it certainly is now. Coal supplies from Queensland took a pounding as a result of the once-in-a-generation storms that engulfed the […]