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Moving house. Keep it fun.

Children need time to adjust when moving home, so tell them as soon as you can before  they hear it from eleswhere. Younger children need not be told until the move is underway. Moods will have an affect so make sure its an adventure pointing out the positives to enable them to adjust. Being stressed will have a negative affect so talk to them giving as many details as necessary. Be excited about new surroundings, school, friends and the new community as well as the new home the furniture removers are taking you all too. Encourage your children to ask questions and to express their feelings as almost all children will show initial resistance. Younger children focus on the present so moving home in a few weeks time will not mean much at all. Show them pictures of others moving home and maybe play with toy trucks pretending to carry out the move and keep it happy.  Be aware of childrens moods and any internal issues, encourage them that its okay to disagree allowing discussion to ease worries. Once the issues are out then solutions can be found.

Burke Bros supply colouring in pamphletts for young children with story lines to help children understand about the big day when furniture removers arrive to help with home moving.

Boys and Toys. Movers to Canada.

Members of CAM the Canadian Association of Movers.

Burke Bros International movers to Canada. Moving home is not always about the furniture and personal effects. We have many clients moving cars, motorbikes even aeroplanes abroad. Recently we moved a client and his home from Shropshire to Canada who amongst his toys were three tractors  (photo to follow). Not a problem for Burke Bros as they were loaded onto a lowloader taken to the port for transfer onto a ship setting sail for Halifax Nova Scocia where they are to be transferred via lowloader again and onto a smaller vessel for their final destination Prince Edward Island. Boys dont age…its just that the toys get more expensive. The tractors are a collection and are not likely to be seen working on the land. We also have shipped larger farming equipment that was shipped to Montreal Port then transferred to rail to cross Canada to Vancouver for Farmers starting a new life in Canada. 

The France Show 2011.

Burke Bros attended the Latest French property Show held at Earls Court and were the only movers in attendance. Removals to France have been a specialist area of Burke Bros for 25 years now and have been advertising in Living France and French Property News for over 20 years also attending French property shows since 1988. Ben Hingley Sales Manager said `the market  has been picking up since sept 2010. Removals to France have been slowly increasing since then and already we have several vans allocated for the first two weeks in February which is traditionaly the quiet month of the year for moving people to France`. Hundreds of people who are leaving the UK stopped by enquiring about moving services and many are looking to store prior to finding a property of their dreams. We anticipate growth in this sector of the market and predicted this last Autumn as quoted at the time by Gary Burke in French Property News. Burke Bros have been the market leaders for the last 25 years for moving to France and carry out many moves on behalf of the public, corporate and trade markets. Currency companies, French estate agents and lawyers are all experiencing the increase in clients looking to move to France. Gary Burke managing Director  stated ` we have had slowdowns three times over the past 25 years and this latest fourth slowdown has been the hardest as many movers have disappeared resulting in an increase to our French business as less movers have been operating`. 2011 will see an increase as already witnessed at Earls court .

Gary Burke Managing Director and joint founder of Burke Bros Moving Group with headquarters in Wolverhampton has been elected Vice President of PAIMA the Pan American International movers association, a worldwide organisation of International moving companies with Global representation with offices based in Panama, Central America and Florida USA. 

Initially Gary represented Northern Europe as regional Director before representing all of Europe. Two years ago he was voted onto the board and has now been elected by the full assembly in California, to Vice President of Paima and is the first person from outside of the Americas to hold such a high rank in its history. 

Paima includes every Latin American country, also the US and Canada along with countries from around the world and represented in 41countries. 

Burke Bros was formed in 1982 by brothers Gary and Chris with less than £1000 and today is the Midlands leading privately owned moving organisation operating Internationally with agents in more than 100 countries. 

Operating in Wolverhampton with 25 vehicles plus support, Burke Bros are well known around the world as one of the UK`s leading International moving organisations. A 24-hour logistics distribution service along with UK domestic and overseas removal services along with Commercial office moving and storage facilities operate from the Burke Bros Trading Estate in Fox’s lane near central Wolverhampton. Burke Bros also purchased leading removal companies in a two-year period between 1992 & 1994 in Birmingham, Coventry and Rugby to establish the formation of the Group. 

Part of Paima`s plan during the previous two years was to help relocate the administration from Panama to Tampa in Florida including Incorporating paima into the USA. Also to develop the online tonnage system between members globally to enable further trade between member companies. He has helped oversee arbitration and claims between members as well as bringing forward training in English and Spanish for the global association online with global certification due to be announced and released. 

Over the next two years Gary will help oversee the expansion plan to increase membership and to make sure paima is represented in more than 50 countries. The paima board has been slimmed to seven with board members from USA, Switzerland, Costa Rica & Mexico. 

With the development of the second set of locks at the Panama canal, Shipping will be able to move more quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific as global movement continues to increase. More and more trade is also being carried out between central & south America and the rest of the world. 

Burke Bros with a financial commitment in Panama are situated nicely and aim to further develop trade and partnerships with  Latin American countries once global relocation eases out of recession. 

Already Burke Bros Moving Group are seen as a main International Household moving company servicing Latin America and are already representing many UK movers as consolidators of shipments to countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Brazil. With agents in all major capitals Burke Bros are represented and are also able to deal with movement from Latin America to the EU.

“Striking Display at The France Show 2010!”

One of the UK’s leading overseas moving firms, Burke Bros Moving Group www.burkebros.co.uk, based in the West Midlands, put on a very impressive display for the recent visitors to London’s ‘The France Show 2010′.

For the 2010 exhibition, Burke Bros decided to make a feature of their exhibition stand by driving a real live 18 ton truck on to their display, to give the 14,000 plus visitors a fascinating insight in to the myriad of personal possessions you can pack in to the back of a truck of that size, including motorcycles that are fixed within their very own tailor-made secure crates.