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Pickfords Launches New Insurance Comparison Website

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Pickfords, one of the UK’s leading removal and storage companies add to their existing portfolio of services by launching a home contents insurance comparison website.

London, England, May 4th 2011 – Pickfords one of the best known removals and storage companies launch a brand new home contents insurance comparison website in order to provide their customers with a wide choice of options at the point of moving home.

Russell Start, Managing Director, says, “Moving home is a great time to consider reviewing your home contents insurance. We know our customers assess the value of their goods prior to moving home. We aim to make the process as easy as possible and to help our customers save money and time by connecting them to some great offers that are not available on the open market.”

Pickfords has negotiated a range of discounts and offers with insurance providers and can connect its customers to offers for home and contents insurance, lettings property insurance and vacant property insurance.

Russell Start goes onto say, “Home contents insurance can be a thing that is easily overlooked when moving house but has the potential to be a very costly oversight. By drawing customers attention to our recently launched home contents insurance comparison website we hope that they will take advantage of the special discounts on offer or at least help them remember to renew/amend their existing policy.”

An insurance quoting engine has been created on the Pickfords website so customers can log in, fill out a simple form and the engine searches for the best deals negotiated by Pickfords. Pickfords customers can also request a call from an expert to discuss their particular circumstances and requirements.

Russell Start concludes by saying, “In common with the removals and storage side of our business, our ultimate aim is 100% customer satisfaction with the new service we are offering and what better time to think about home content insurance than at the point of moving home?”

Pickfords, the UK’s largest moving and storage company provides a portfolio of services to a diverse range of clients. Their new home contents insurance comparison website can be found at www.pickfords-insurance.co.uk

For further information, please contact:

Contact Person: Lyndsey Daykin
Mail: lyndsey.daykin@pickfords.com
Phone: 0777 4456607

Business, Transportation & Logistics

Pickfords Helps MTV UK Move Home

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MTV UK enlists the help of Pickfords to promote its brand new move to Sky Channel 126

London, February 2011: Pickfords, the UK’s largest moving and storage company, has teamed up with MTV Networks UK & Ireland (MTV UK) to promote the main channel’s brand new move from Sky Channel #350 to #126 this month.

To support a raft of other MTV initiatives introduced to promote the new move – including a series of bespoke on-air and online promotions – MTV UK wanted to introduce something instantly eye catching, that could easily inform a wider audience across the length and breadth of the UK. With this in mind, the channel’s in-house marketing team contacted Pickfords Moving and Storage to propose using its vehicles as mobile poster sites.

With Pickford’s support, several four pallet vehicles were re-liveried on one side with MTV UK’s message – ‘Pickfords, proudly moving MTV from Sky Channel 350 to 126’. A lorry was used on the day of the launch to promote the channel move around Camden (the home of MTV UK) with even more vehicles taking part in the campaign throughout the month.

Photographs of the vehicle and information about the move will be promoted on MTV UK’s social media platforms including its official website mtv.co.uk (reaching an audience of 400,000 people) as well as its official Facebook and Twitter pages. MTV viewers have been encouraged to tweet if they spot the Pickfords vehicles out and about – resulting in a series of tweets already coming through thick and fast!

Emma Roscoe, Head of Marketing at MTV UK said “We are delighted to bring this idea to life with the excellent support of the team at Pickfords. What better way to indicate that the channel is moving than by taking the message on the open road – literally! We hope that our audience is as excited about this news as we are and will continue to frequent our new home at 126.”

Pickfords’s Managing Director Russell Start said, “This was an unusual request, but we jumped at the opportunity to be part of this campaign and promote the association between two great brands.”

The bespoke Pickfords vehicles will be out and about across the UK for the rest of the month.

Further Information:
Contact: marketing@pickfords.com

For Customer Services:
Contact: customer-service@pickfords.com