Every year, this unique event brings together nearly 2000 participants, representing 1700 member companies from more than 160 countries worldwide. Industry professionals had an opportunity to meet and share ideas with partners from around the world.

The International Association of Movers (IAM), is the largest international group of professionals in the moving industry with more than 2000 members in 170 countries. The association brings together companies that specialise in moving, transport, logistics and other mobility related services. IAM also provides support to its members to develop their business by dispensing unparalleled resources, support and networking opportunities.

Every year, the AGS Group meets its partners during the IAM annual conference to reflect on the past year’s activities and potential business ideas.

A partner is appointed by a moving company to act as a representative in organising a move. A branch of the AGS Group may call upon a representative when the group is not directly located in a region or a country. The partner will then take care of receiving the shipment, customs clearance and final delivery.

Partners who work with AGS have been carefully selected to meet the strict quality standards of the group. All partners are members of quality accreditation bodies to ensure that we maintain our commitment to offer identical services of uniform quality, no matter the destination anywhere in the world.

The annual IAM meeting is an important event for both the AGS Group and the partners. It allows us to address operational issues and to take stock of the developments and acquisitions in the industry. The AGS Group has always maintained excellent relations with its partners in order to offer our customers exceptional quality of service everywhere in the world.

“It is a remarkable achievement,” says Chantal Fera, Manager of the FIDI Academy. “It confirms AGS’s focus to invest in driving and promoting industry knowledge amongst their employees.”

Since the inception of the company in the 1970’s, AGS has always placed a high premium on the transference of knowledge among employees. The complexity of the moving industry, along with the technical skills needed to ensure excellent service delivery, prompted AGS to get involved with FIDI’s training body, FIDI Academy.

FIDI – the quality benchmark for international moving companies – established the Academy to develop and promote high industry standards. Recognising the many variables in organising a move, they’ve designed tailor-made training courses to inform affiliates of important industry changes and technicalities.

“FIDI Academy empowers their members to become “movers of choice” by providing them with exceptional training material, experienced industry leaders and best practices from around the globe,” – continues Chantal.

To encourage companies to continually improve the skill-sets of their employees, FIDI Academy introduced the Supporter Award.

“Each employee attending a training session acquires career points. If the total of the points exceed 2,800 per year, a company is eligible for gold status,” she explains.

“We would like to congratulate all the AGS staff who successfully completed a FIDI Training course,“ continues Chantal. “All customers should know that when they deal with AGS, they deal with a company that not only talks about training, they demonstrate their involvement at the highest level and take pride in putting their knowledge towards client satisfaction.”