A survey commissioned by Graebel has shown that, contrary to expectations, a large number of college seniors entering the workforce would be keen to work overseas, despite global volatility. The survey results provide an interesting insight into this demographic and should prove useful to anyone interested in future global mobility trends.
Following the intensive investment FINK Mobility is doing in its
Immigration and Relocation division, Claudia Baumgratz has joined the team
with the responsibility of managing this stand alone division.
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
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.
Johanna Lindström has joined Aspire Mobility Group as Senior Move Coordinator in Sweden.
She will join the customer care team servicing clients in Sweden and Denmark as well as the group’s international partners.
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.
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.
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.
Juerg Degenmann, General Manager of Mudanzas Internacionales Global in Venezuela, has advised of a worsening situation in his country including strikes and service interruptions.
Juerg writes:
As you already know, the situation in Venezuela is getting worse every day. Our country has become a constant scene of atrocities where the government has taken the social and economic balance that was once the best in South America and the Caribbean to the lowest level of poverty and insecurity.
GInter is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr. Idalmir Luz to the company’s immigration and relocation departments. Mr. Luz will help the company develop new service products to meet the needs of this continually changing market.