You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

letsdothis3 ago

Baker Street boys http://www.themover.co.uk/features/2015/03/16/baker-street-boys

Steve Jordan interviews David Hollins as he joins Momentous Relocation, just a year after Paul Evans bought the company, in its new home in central London.

was winding my way down Baker Street. I was light in my head and dead on my feet. It was another rainy day, I’d drunk the night away and now I’d forgotten about everything. Fortunately, just around the corner from the tube station, at number 188, is Chiltern Court the new home of Momentous Relocation. I dropped in.

The building is a remarkable place, owned and built by London Transport immediately adjacent to the tube line and, indeed, with a secret direct access to the platform. Handy! “But they don’t like us using it,” said David Hollins, the company’s new managing director. I’m not surprised.

With Rafael Ravenscroft’s iconic sax solo burning an ear worm in my brain I followed David to the company’s offices in the remarkably airy basement. With modern furniture, intriguing art on the walls and collectables adorning the hallway the whole place is a bit of a home from home for Paul. It’s a nice place to work and kind of handy for … everything really. Especially buskers and record stores one would hope.

David had just got his feet under the table at Momentous having joined only six weeks earlier after 18 years’ service with Crown. It is a new challenge for him and very different from what he has known before. But he has a good team around him: Christian Peck (Stuart Peck’s son) business development; Caroline O’Connor is handling sales support; David McWilliam has been in corporate sales for a very long time; Lyris Andrews, ex Sterling, provides DSP services; Wesley Davies, is new to the industry; Wendy Smith, customer support; Ian Nicholson is in Florida oiling wheels; and there is Paul of course … Mr Midas. It looks like a winning formula. It probably is.

Baker Street is the sales and customer service operations centre of Momentous. The company still has its warehouse in Aylesbury, 40 miles north-west of London for long-term storage and its new international operations centre in Park Royal (London’s mover city). The company employs around 30 people in total.