Danbury-based Cartus Corp. is celebrating 60 years since its Wilton founding in 1955. The global moving company then billed itself as a “home-finding company with a small team of dedicated employees.”
Cartus in a press release said the company has 2,900 employees who helped more than 171,000 transferees move to or from 149 countries in 2014.
- Cartus Corp.’s Danbury headquarters.
“Sixty years ago, the typical relocating employee might have been moving from, say, Dallas to Grand Rapids, Mich., then five years later we would help them with their next move to Chicago or the West Coast,” said Kevin Kelleher, president and CEO of Cartus. “But things have changed dramatically as the global mobility objectives of multinational corporations have become highly strategic and quite complex.”
Kelleher pointed out that as corporations have truly become global in their presences, their relocation needs have also expanded to keep pace.
“Cartus’ business has grown exponentially to a point where today, a typical transferee might be a key executive in London being transferred to Hong Kong for a short-term assignment, followed by a move we manage for her to India on the way to finishing up in Brazil,” Kelleher said.
Cartus services include providing home sale and home purchase services, household goods shipping, property management, and assistance with resettling and finding rental and temporary housing as well as spouse/partner career transitions. Other company services include intercultural and language training, reimbursement of moving expenses, international assignment compensation services, policy consulting services and company group moves.
Among successes, Cartus lists its Affinity Realty Reward program, through which U.S. financial institutions, associations, membership organizations and corporations are able to offer no-cost real estate assistance programs to their customers, members and employees. Annually, Affinity customers receive more than $50 million in cash back, Cartus reported, and $417 million across the 35-year life of the program.
Kelleher, a 35-year Cartus employee, said, “We are confident that the best is yet to come for this great company as we remain focused on essentially what we set out to do six decades ago: help families settle in to new homes, new communities and new experiences.”
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