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Allied Van Lines is an American moving company founded in 1928 as a cooperative non-profit organization owned by its member agents on the east coast of the United States, to help with organizing return loads and minimizing dead-heading (i.e. operating trucks without shipments loaded on them).
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Bekins was acquired by Wheaton World Wide Moving in 2012. [10] After the acquisition, the Bekins Van Lines brand name continued to be used as a separate brand. [10] It is the oldest, currently operating, household moving, company in the United States. [11] It is one of the largest moving companies in North America. [2] [10]
On July 5, 1966 Spedco Inc., a subsidiary of PepsiCo Inc., applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission to purchase NAVL for about US$22 million in PepsiCo stock. On August 29, 1967 the ICC examiner recommended the acquisition of NAVL by Spedco Inc, and on November 27, 1968 NAVL was acquired by Spedco Inc., which had Kenneth W. Maxfield as its Executive Vice President.
Global Van Lines, LLC is an international moving company founded in 1933 by George T. Howard as Howard Van Lines in Dallas, Texas. It took its present name in 1957 when it was acquired by Trans-Ocean Van Service of Long Beach, California. It was acquired in 1981 by WKG Corporation of Houston, Texas, and sold to Contrans Corporation in 1985.
In 1998, Interstate acquired Orange, California-based Global Van Lines to become one of the largest moving companies in the US with reported annual revenues of $120 million. Global was an agent-owned co-operative focused on the West Coast while Interstate's business was still primarily in the Eastern US. [10]