The EuRApean March 09
EuRA Relocation
Issue 15 - March 2009
Vienna
Update
51 days to go
The InterContinental is now fully booked on certain nights.
For a list of alternative nearby hotels,
click here.
For full event details and booking forms, click here.
Feature
Helmut Berg
"A Matter of Symbiosis - Effective Partnerships"
Large global relocation management companies (RMC) and smaller local service providers (DSP) tend to be thrown into partnership due to plain necessity. In the following article I would like to examine the best methods in which co-operation and workload sharing can be designed for the benefit of the customer, as well as for the two partners. Leaving aside differences in size, much of what is said below can also apply for a cross-border partnership and co-operation between two DSP in situations of outbound business.
Read More...
Vienna Icons -
Schönbrunn Palace
The Schönbrunn Palace is one of the greatest examples of Baroque architecture anywhere in the world, and ranks alongside Versailles as one of the largest private residences ever built. Now preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a visit to the Schönbrunn Palace is an essential part of any trip to Vienna. Although the city is one of the most architecturally vibrant in the world, no other building comes close to Schönbrunn in scale or majesty.
Read more...
Feature
Dominic Tidey
"EuRA Quality Seal -Why Get Accredited?"
The benefits of being externally quality audited are well proven, and partnering with both European and Global ISO auditors, gives the EuRA Quality Seal an unbeatable pedigree. We have worked hard with our accreditation partners to ensure the EuRA Quality Seal represents great value for money and have developed three tiers of fees depending on the turnover of the company. This means that for as little as €800 a year, relocation providers are able to assert their dedication to quality to the corporate and procurement markets.
Read More...
EuRA Activities Report
March 2009
This edition:
For the full article, click here.
Vienna
Conference Programme Details
This years conference programme has been designed to look at the issues we face in the day to day running of our companies, and how we can solve those issues, with intuitive thinking and recourse to the best tools. This year, each session will lead into the next, so don’t miss a minute!At the start of the year we sent out a comprehensive research questionnaire to 350 relocation company owners and directors with the aim of gaining a clear picture of the issues that are facing our industry, in both the short and long term.The results have given us an extremely clear idea of what we need to focus on during the conference day.
Read More...
The Questionnaire
Marjo Lautjarvi, Finland Relocation Services
Marjo Lautjarvi has been a EuRA Member since the beginning and is one of two companies in Helsinki to have recently achieved the EuRA Quality Seal. In this edition, Marjo takes the questionnaire.
Read More...
Worldwide Member Focus
Pathfinder Relocation Asia
Triona Chelliah
I believe some of the skills necessary to make a successful relocator were instilled in me while growing up in the small village of Carrigaholt in County Clare, Ireland. Whenever my mother had time to spare, she would involve herself with charity work in the village, helping the elderly and the needy. The empathy and compassion that she had for others probably helped instil in all of her six children the importance of helping the less fortunate in the community.
Read More...
Member Focus
Transite Relocation Finland
What about a Move to Finland?
I wonder how many assignees have gone home and proposed this question to their families. Certainly it causes a flurry of world maps and hurried searching of the Internet. For me personally when presented with this question 24 years ago it meant: a Nordic country, very cold winters, darkness but marriage to a great Finnish guy. All these things were correct but I soon discovered there was so much more to Finland.
Read More...
Feature
"Beware the Rogue Tenant"
Margaret Moes
In June last year someone I know moved out of his own apartment to move in with his partner. He put his property in London on the market for rental. The apartment is in Mayfair, which is one of the more prestigious areas of London. The asking price of his property was £6000 per month; as it only has two bedrooms you can imagine the quality. The property has been interior designed and was on the market fully furnished.
Read More...
Movers & Shakers
Member News March 09
Nova Relocation Take Over Core UK
Lisbon Relocation Office merge to become to Nau Relocation
Chris Collie Joins Board of RSS Relocation