The professionals at AFR Furniture Rental and Stamford Office Furniture recently teamed to provide swing space facilities for G.E. Asset Management. GEAM is the professional money management arm of General Electric Company. They manage the retirement funds and pensions for GE employees and outside companies as well. The firm planned to move from its 3001 Summer St. facilities to a new building just down the street at 1600 Summer St.
Brian Sheridan, account manager at Stamford Office Furniture, made the original request for rental products prior to the move. After submitting working drawings and budget proposals with project time lines, a decision was reached to remove the existing furnishings, including office cubicles. Greg Durkin, SOF president, approved the rental agreements and on July 7th the process moved forward..
When the removal of the existing furnishings from the current facility was completed and moved to the new location, the rental furnishings were moved in and installed in phases over a period of three consecutive weekends beginning in July. The secret? A well orchestrated move by both companies. Stamford Office Furniture supervised the breakdown of the existing furnishings, including the cubicle systems and the move to the new building. AFR Furniture Rental teams immediately delivered and installed the new temporary rental furnishings. Pure teamwork! The physical move was handled by W. B. Meyers, whose teams delivered computers and other personal items back to each of the offices on Sunday afternoon. The information technology crews set up the computers and reconnected the phones, so that GE Asset Management personnel were all back at their desks on Monday morning. That's team action service!
Ron Lanzo, the commercial account executive with AFR Furniture Rental, again supervised the AFR team effort which included Dan Falvo, director of operations, as well as Keith Price of Price Installation Services.
The weekend effort spelled client satisfaction. G.E.'s Richard Kopchak, facility manager, and Mark Weiss, director of facilities for GEAM, were pleased. Using professionals gets the job done right.