Our Story
We move people with care, because we care about people
For over eighty years, Victory Worldwide Transportation has provided premier moving and storage services. From a complex research lab move for Bayer or organizing the George W. Bush library move, helping a young family into their first new home, relocating corporate employees worldwide, or moving retiring couples to their dream home near the ocean, Victory has always succeeded with caring attention and putting the customer first.
Our value proposition is simple: to develop and maintain lasting relationships with our customers by providing superior quality, cost-effective moving and storage services. We are a people company that strives to be the finest customer satisfaction company in the industry.
Our Story
In 1938, a Swiss immigrant named Christian Beetcham opened an antique furniture shop in New York City naming it “Victory Furniture and Antiques
Unable to afford a delivery van, Christian utilized a local moving company to make the furniture deliveries. One of Christian’s problems was that furniture damage occurred during delivery, thereby eroding much of the profit and generating customer dissatisfaction. To remedy this, Christian began making the deliveries personally and eventually acquired the drayage truck by bartering furniture inventory.
Soon Christian realized that delivering antiques was more enjoyable than selling them and he sold the antiques business for another truck and changed the name of the company to “Victory Van Lines.”
In 1958, Christian became partners with Robert O’Donnell, a former Captain of the United States Air Force who had a transportation and logistics background. The firm was incorporated in New York and became the first east coast agent of Global Van Lines. In the 1960s and 1970s, Victory specialized in local moving and storage and the name became synonymous with quality, reliability and consistency.
The Second Generation of Leadership
In 1975, Jim Simpson, a college freshman, drove to Victory’s store front office on a motorcycle, looking for a job in order to help pay his tuition and was hired. Jim worked full time while attending St. John’s University.
In his Junior year, Jim moved up to be the dispatcher then a Certified Moving Consultant selling moving services to consumers. After graduating Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree and preparing Jim for law school the owner Bob O’Donnell developed serious health problems and could no longer endure running the company. There were no experienced managers as it was a small firm, so it was either Jim manage the company or close the doors. Jim decided to delay law school a year and within that time decided running a company was more rewarding than being a lawyer.
In time Jim became Bob’s partner and subsequently became the sole stockholder. In less than a decade, Victory grew to become the largest international agent of United Van Lines and its largest single stockholder, as well as one of the top corporate household and office moving companies in the country.
The Hey-Day of relocation & the Mobile Society
In the 1980s and 1990s, with its focus on high quality domestic and international moving services for corporate household and office moving, Victory saw rapid growth. During this time, the company began hiring numerous personnel including many retired or part-time New York City police officers and firefighters for both managerial and craft positions. Victory also recruited veterans and have had numerous former military personnel as Victory employees, including a Two-Star Admiral who was the Commander of the John F. Kennedy Carrier Battle Group as well as a former fighter pilot as the Chief Operating Officer.
In addition, Victory hired former clients who were relocation and transportation professionals including the former heads of Relocation and Transportation at Fortune 20 companies including a former National Employee Relocation Council President. Victory served many of the nation’s top Fortune 100 companies including: AT&T, IBM, American Express, Mobil Oil, General Foods, General Electric, Chase Manhattan Bank, Coca Cola, Merck, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Fidelity Investments and Citibank to name a few.
Victory has been among the top firms for high quality Executive Relocation, both domestically and internationally. The company also serviced the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies as well as individuals paying for their own move. During the 1980’s and 1990’s, America was truly a mobile society with over twenty percent of the population moving annually.
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