b"INDUSTRY NEWS FALL 2022In Brief Purchase ofMackie Moving SystemsWeichert Workforce Mobility promotedMackie Moving Systems Corporation was acquired by Direct Alexandra Dehne to client services manager inLimited Partnership (Canada Cartage), marking a major change for Toronto. Dehne will leverage her 17 years ofthe family-run company.experience as a real estate specialist for Royal LePage, which later became Brookfield Relocation Services.For five generations and over 94 years our family has proudly offered quality, diverse service offerings to our clients across TransferEASE gained several new accounts sinceCanada and the United States, stated Scott Mackie, CEO of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The companyMackie Moving Systems. Over the course of 10 decades, we've has also successfully completed a group move tobeen extremely fortunate to have formed longstanding partnerships British Columbia and increased its internationalwith our customers, employees and driversall instrumental to the business presence.growth of our business.Homebuyers Preferred, a subsidiary ofCanada Cartage, founded in 1914, offers customers a range of Radonova, has relocated from its Westmont, Illinoistransportation and logistics services. With a stellar reputation for address to Lombard, Illinois as part of a long-termdelivering excellent customer service, we feel very confident our growth plan. The new facility more than doubles thecustomers will continue to receive the same type of service for companys capacity to service the radon gas serviceyears to come, noted Norm Mackie, chairman of Mackie. agreements customized solely for the relocation industry in Canada and the U.S. Norm and Scott Mackie will continue to be actively engaged in the operation of the business, along with their employees, drivers and contractors. The company will carry on operating under the Mackie Moving Systems brand and will remain part of the Atlas Cooptalis embarks on Canada agency network. It will continue to represent Atlas Van Lines in Calgary, Edmonton, Mississauga, Halifax, Moncton, new phase of development, Middleton and Fredericton through its head office in Oshawa, Ontario, providing household moving (residential and corporate) name change and storage (long-term and short-term) services.International recruitment and job mobility operator Cooptalis raised $108 million in a new funding round, its biggest to date, partneringAtlas Canada wins 4th with Naxicap Partners and previous investor Eurazeo. To support this change in strategic orientation, the company has also undergoneReaders Choice Awarda name change and is now known as the Anywr Group. Canadian HR Reporter magazine awarded Atlas Canada its 2022 The recent fundraising push is part of Anywrs reorganization thatCanadian HR Reporter Readers Choice Award in the Relocation will allow it to continue its global expansion strategy. It aims to turnServices Category. This is the fourth consecutive year that the over $135 million in 2022, employ 1,000 staff worldwide by Januarymoving company has earned this prestigious award.2023, and turn over $540 million in 2024. We are thrilled to be recognized by the Canadian HR Reporter Following double-digit growth since it launched in France in 2013,as the top service company in the relocation services category the Anywr group is now present in 16 countries including Canada,for the fourth year in a row, said Fred Haladay, president and with offices in Montreal, Toronto and Western Canada. It relies onCEO of Atlas Canada. COVID-19 has put our organization to a national presence of nearly 300 local experts and a worldwidethe test in many ways, but with the support and expertise of our network of over 500 partners. agency network we have persevered through these challenges After multiple transactions in 2019, including the acquisition ofand continue to provide our customers with the highest level of Quebec-based Fleur de Lys Relocation, the group continued itsquality service. growth in 2021 and 2022, expanding its recruitment and mobilityCanadian HR Reporter, a print and online magazine, has served operations across Spain, Switzerland, India and China.as Canada's guide to human resources management since 1987. The company has also intensified its deployment of digital servicesAs part of its Readers Choice Award program, more than with three specialist recruitment platforms (Izyfreelance, anywr.io30,000 readers vote for their preferred HR suppliers in different and anywr.life), an outsourcing platform (Izyportage) and, since thiscategories, including leadership, diversity, health and wellness, past May, its first ethical CV-posting platform. and relocation services. The publications awards program is currently in its seventh year.12PERSPECTIVES Fall 2022"