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1965 – Founded by owner, chairman and CEO Richard S. Merians. Operating as a small home delivery company with 2 trucks in the New York region, with a major focus on furniture and bedding.
1980 – Awarded the rights to operate nationwide and grew to include more big ticket items, such as appliances, electronics & exercise equipment.
1984 - Began first operations outside the NYC/NJ market in Georgia.
1987 – Designed and built an automated delivery warehouse management system, allowing different technologies to be integrated such as routing and automated confirmation calls for a complete set of delivery services.
1988 - Awarded May Company contract in California
1990 - Moved into larger facility in South Kearny, NJ for Federated Department Stores.
1992 – Processed our 1 MILLION piece of furniture.
1995 - Awarded Sears account which continues to present day.
2000 - Awarded GE Appliances account which continues to present day.
2005– Designed state-of-the art software based application suite including customizable routing, GPS tracking, automated confirmation call system, and internet accessible applications for a higher level of delivery efficiency and customer service.
2006 - Awarded Bob's Discount Furniture account which continues to present day.
2007 - Performed our 500,000 appliance delivery.
2008 – Transitioned from a privately owned sole proprietorship to an employee owned company through an ESOP transaction.
2009 - Processed our 2 MILLION piece of furniture.
Current – The largest high velocity cross dock facility in the nation with over 100 bays opened December 1, 2009.
We proudly share some impressive statistics:
- Administrating the highest number of delivery trucks in the New York, New Jersey market.
- Consistently ranked # 1 overall and #1 YTD in delivery performance within our current client base.
- Operating the highest cross dock productivity in thousands of pieces per day in a single location.
- Consistently outperforming bonus metrics set by our clients.
Industry Affiliations:
International Furniture Transportation and Logistics Council
http://www.iftlc.org/
National Truckers Association
We also proudly participate in various recycling programs recycling up to 50,000 pounds of material weekly.
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