Navis Pack & Ship Franchise News

Local Navis Pack & Ship owners receive recognition at the 2011 Annex Brands National Convention.
Folcroft, PA, October 06, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Peter Michaelson and Rebecca Michaelson, the owners of the Navis Pack & Ship franchise in Philadelphia, were awarded the President's Club Award during the Annex Brands National Convention, which was held in Henderson, Nevada, August 25-27.
The recipient of the President’s Club Award represents the very best of the best among all the company’s franchises. Navis, the local expert in the mail, parcel, and business services industry, is a part of the Annex Brands franchise network, which includes the PostalAnnex+, AIM Mail Center, Handle With Care Packaging Store and Sunshine Pack & Ship brands...

Local Navis Pack & Ship franchise selected by a local artist to ship well-known installation to Oregon.
Philadelphia, PA, October 07, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Navis Pack and Ship Philadelphia franchise owners, Peter and Rebecca Michaelson, are proud to announce that they were selected to package, crate, and ship a local artist’s work across the country.
Philadelphia artist James Dupree is known for creating large-scale pieces that are saturated with color and dense with overlapping shapes, patterns and textures. His latest piece: “Evolving Elements,” is made up of twenty panels and, as a whole, it is 8 feet tall and thirty feet wide. This installation has been on display at the Philadelphia International Airport and will now be loaned to the Portland International Airport in Oregon to be displayed there...

Navis Pack & Ship, a franchise company that packs and ships electronics equipment, artwork, machinery and other fragile, large, awkward or valuable (FLAV) items, has opened in the Philadelphia Metro area. /24-7PressRelease/ - Philadelphia, Pa, - Navis Pack & Ship, a franchise company that packs and ships electronics equipment, artwork, machinery and other fragile, large, awkward or valuable (FLAV) items, has opened in the Philadelphia Metro area.

The business, located at 780 Primos Avenue in Folcroft, PA (two miles from Philadelphia Intl. Airport), provides custom packaging, crating, pickup, shipping, storage and fulfillment to a wide range of both residential and commercial customers. Owners Peter and Rebecca Michaelson decided in 2008 to move back to the Philadelphia area...

Greenwood Village, CO (Jan. 21, 2008)— Navis Pack & Ship was ranked #294 on Entrepreneur magazine's annual list of top 500 franchises. Considered the best known and most comprehensive franchise ranking, the Entrepreneur Franchise 500 is compiled using a top-secret formula based on factors such as financial strength and stability, growth rate and size of the system.
"It's an honor to be included among the best franchises in the world," said Ben Blakeley, Navis President and CEO. "Navis is investing in support, infrastructure and marketing that is enabling our franchise operators to capitalize on the strong demand for their services."
Navis Pack & Ship has made the Franchise 500 in previous years as well, ranking #249 in 2005 and #470 in 2004...

January 18, 2008 // Franchising.com // Greenwood Village, CO — The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has Awarded an Ocean Transportation Intermediary (OTI) license to the parent company of Navis Pack & Ship. The license enables Navis franchise operators to offer international ocean shipping services. To be licensed as an OTI, a company must have an officer with at least three years experience working for an ocean freight forwarder, a non-vessel ocean common carrier (NVOCC) or an OTI. Knowing that few of its individual franchise locations could meet this standard, the Navis corporate office applied for the license and developed a published tariff and training program that enables its franchise locations to offer international ocean services in accordance with FMC regulations...

January 14, 2008 // Franchising.com // Greenwood Village, CO — Navis Pack & Ship has awarded the franchise territory for Aurora, IL, to George Tourville, an experienced management professional. His unit will be the fourth Navis Pack & Ship operating in the Chicago area and the 71st in North America.
For the past 12 years, Tourville has been chief administrator of a cardiology practice of 14 physicians in nearby Rockford, IL. With experience managing accounting, financial reporting, accounts receivable, marketing, information systems and human resources for 100 employees, he is well-qualified to step into business ownership.

Navis met everything that Tourville was seeking in his own business, he said, including the opportunity to stay in the Chicago area, a small number of employees to manage and a unique and interesting business that "isn't on every other corner...

Palmdale, Calif. (Nov. 30, 2007)— Navis Pack & Ship has opened its fourth location in Southern California this week, continuing an aggressive drive to complete a network of 260 locations across the United States and 30 in Canada in four years. Two other Navis units opened during November in Northern California and Florida, and another will open near Toronto in December.
Marvin and Tracy McClanahan are the new franchise operators in Palmdale. In addition to the Antelope Valley (Lancaster and Palmdale), their territory covers the Santa Clarita Valley (Valencia and Newhall) and the industrial northern San Fernando Valley (Chatsworth).
Marvin McClanahan had spent most of his working career in transportation and logistics and was attracted to Navis because of the great fit with his background...

November 19, 2007 // Franchising.com // Ft. Lauderdale — Navis Pack & Ship has opened its second location in Florida to serve the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood metro area south to the Miami-Dade County line. Three other new Navis Pack & Ship units will open by the end of the year in Northern California, Southern California and Toronto, as Navis continues its aggressive drive to complete a network of 260 locations across the United States and 30 in Canada in four years.

Leo and Lisa Denlea are the new franchise operators in Florida. Experienced business owners, the Denleas were drawn to Navis Pack & Ship for its business-to-business orientation. Previously they owned a steel rule die manufacturing company and a silver resale business...

Detroit (Nov. 9, 2007)— From the 15-foot-tall 1945 World Series banner to 11-foot long dugout benches, nothing auctioned from historic Tiger Stadium proved to be too big, awkward or valuable for Navis Pack & Ship.
Selected as the preferred shipping company for the October 16th auction of Tiger Stadium memorabilia, Navis Pack & Ship of Novi, Michigan, packed, shipped or delivered more than half of the 700+ lots sold. In addition to dozens of one-of-a-kind jerseys, signs and other stadium mementos, Navis handled the locker of legendary Tigers' outfielder Al Kaline and the clubhouse urinal.
Navis Franchise Operator Steve Flam landed the job from salvage auction specialist Schneider Industries of St. Louis. Schneider Industries had worked previously with the St...

Toronto (Nov. 2, 2007)—A Toronto franchise location of Navis Pack & Ship was selected to provide fine art packaging and delivery services for the 14th Annual Art With Heart, one of Canada's highest grossing charity art auctions. The Oct. 16th event raised a record $406,250 for Casey House, a supportive care organization for people suffering from AIDS and HIV.
Navis Pack & Ship delivered more than half of this year's collection, which featured works by prominent Canadian contemporary artists such as Edward Burtynsky, Darren Cerkownyk, Douglas Coupland, Ken Danby, Greg Girard, Attila Richard Lukacs, Charles Pachter and Harold Town. Navis also handled a featured work by artist James Lahey, which sold for the evening's highest price tag, $27,000...

Riverside, CA (Sept. 28, 2007)—You just never know what Navis will pack next. Last week the city of Riverside, Calif. turned to its local Navis Pack & Ship to engineer and build a custom crate for a 600-pound fiberglass "orange." The city was shipping the sculpture to Sendai, Japan, in honor of their 50th Sister City anniversary.

The sculpture is similar in size and dimensions to other giant oranges that have decorated Riverside; but its porcelain, mosaic tiled surface, which portrays local landmarks and the area's citrus-growing heritage, is unique.

So, too, is the 5 x 5 x 6-foot crate that Navis franchise operators Winton and Leslie Mattison donated to the city. Inside, a custom bracing system immobilized and cushioned the sculpture for the 5,000-mile journey without marring its delicate surface...

Greenwood Village, CO September 13, 2007: Brothers Mike and Doug Evans of Omaha, Nebraska were recently awarded a Navis franchise representing the 63rd franchise awarded in the Navis Pack & Ship franchise history. The brothers have had successful business careers in a broad spectrum of industries. Mike Evans has a successful career in marketing, advertising, and business development while Doug Evans likewise has succeeded in sales, marketing, design, and construction. The Evan's territory includes the great Omaha metropolitan market.

"The opportunity to go into business with my brother is something we have talked about for years but never found the right fit. That is we started searching franchise opportunities and found Navis," said Mike Evans, newly awarded Navis Franchise Operator...

DENVER, CO (Sept. 6, 2007) — Navis Pack & Ship makes its move. With a goal to own the commercial specialty packaging and shipping category, Navis has sold its retail-based franchises to Postal Annex+. The company will focus exclusively on building out its successful warehouse-based franchise where royalty revenue is increasing by an average of 60 percent per year within its territories in North America, while same-store sales on average grew by 32 percent over the last year.
"With its retail orientation and strong history, we are pleased to pass the torch of our legacy business and franchise operators to such a capable organization as Postal Annex+," said Nathan Bell, Chairman of the Navis board of directors. "We are confident they will be in good hands...

Greenwood Village, CO August 31, 2007: Andy Warhol may have died 20 years ago but his signature Pop Art of the 60's lives on. In August our Navis Pack & Ship Franchise Operator in Jacksonville, Florida was awarded the packaging and shipping job to transport five signed lithographs created by renowned artist Andy Warhol. Each piece, worth thousands of dollars each was custom packaged and shipped to the home of an avid private art collector in New York City.
"This type of large, high value art that needs specialized packaging and expert shipping is our core business," noted Ben Blakeley, CEO for Navis. "Our Franchise Operators are professionals and leading experts in preparing goods that are fragile, large, awkward, and valuable for consumers or businesses to withstand harsh shipping environment and arrive anywhere in the world safe and sound...

August 22, 2007 // Franchising.com // Indianapolis, IN –– Navis Pack & Ship, a packing and shipping franchise that specializes in fragile and valuable art and antiques, has its hands, trucks and warehouse full this week packing items auctioned by the Sisters of Providence and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.

Navis Pack & Ship was the exclusive shipper on-site at the four-day auction, which attracted a large on-site audience to Terre Haute, Indiana, as well as a worldwide audience of online and telephone bidders. Buyers contracted with Navis to pack and ship some of the auction's biggest and most valuable items, including an 8 x 12 foot oil painting, a painting attributed to Reubens, a Lalique vase, 36" cloisonné vases valued at $19000, nun dolls valued from $100 to $5000, an 8 x 4-foot library table, other pieces of furniture; and several rare 200-year-old fore-edge painted books...

Greenwood Village, CO—Navis is North America's leading franchised logistics business providing commercial, industrial and residential customers with customized solutions for difficult-to-ship items. Founded as a single retail store in 1980, today Navis is a network of more than 140 warehouse and retail locations situated throughout the United States and Canada.

The company's diverse clientele ranges from businesses that handle fine art and antiques, such as art galleries, auction houses, estate settlement professionals and interior designers, to companies that need to move sensitive electronic equipment and machinery. Navis also serves residential consumers who are moving furniture, art or household goods, but have less than a mover's minimum load [of less than 2,000 pounds]...