Allied Pickfords Australia

Allied Moving Services is a moving company in Australia. It maintains 40 branches across all states of Australia, and over 600 locations worldwide providing removal services across the entire country, and is a subsidiary of SIRVA.[1][2]

Allied Moving Services Australia
Founded1926
Headquarters
Australia
OwnerSIRVA
Websitewww.allied.com/au/

History

Allied Australia was established in 1926 as family-owned moving company named Downard Transport. In 1973 a joint venture was formed with Gascoyne Trading Company to enter the interstate freight forwarding market between Victoria and Western Australia.[3] In 1982, British-based Pickfords, bought the company to form Downard Pickfords.[2][4][5][6]

In 1991, as part of a global rebranding exercise, Downard Pickfords became Allied Pickfords.[7] In 1996, Allied Pickfords was included in the sale of Pickfords by the National Freight Corporation to Allied Van Lines.[8] In 1999 Allied Van Lines was purchased by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and merged with North American Van Lines to become SIRVA.[2][9]

In August 2020, as part of global rebranding, the company changed its name from Allied Pickfords Australia to Allied Moving Services, remaining a SIRVA subsidiary. The movers and drivers are often referred to in country as Allied Removalists.[10]

Business

Allied Australia has 400 year-round employees, with an additional 50-100 seasonal workers during the removals busy season, November to February.

References
  1. Office Locations Allied
  2. About Allied
  3. Vic and WA transport groups in joint operation Freight & Container Transportation April 1973 page 8
  4. Pickford acquires Downard operations Truck & Bus Transportation January 1982 page 84
  5. Removalists Canberra Times 18 July 1982 page 15
  6. NFC buys into American market Commercial Motor 26 May 1984
  7. New identity for Downard Pickfords Truck & Bus Transportation December 1991 page 9
  8. Pickfords moves to US control The Daily Telegraph 15 September 1999
  9. NFC and Ocean forge £3.2bn alliance to exploit e-commerce Archived 17 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine The Independent 22 February 2000
  10. "ALLIED PICKFORDS IS NOW ALLIED". Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  • [www.allied.com/au/ Official website]
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