Business View Magazine | December 2018

238 239 ANNIVERSARY Merchants Delivery Moving & Storage Company DBA Merchants Moving & Storage Company WBENCNationalWBECertificationwasprocessedandvalidatedby >Women'sBusinessDevelopmentCenter -Midwest,aWBENCRegionalPartner Organization. AuthorizedbyEmiliaDiMenco,President&CEO Women'sBusinessDevelopmentCenter -Midwest Certification Granted: October 23, 2017 Expiration Date: October 31, 2019 WBENC National Certification Number: WBE1702110 NAICS:484110,484210 UNSPSC:78101804 MERCHANTS MOVING AND STORAGE Moving can be very labor intensive, and injuries happen. In 2013, Merchants Moving and Storage started a program called MoveWell that puts safety and work injuries together with wellness. world. They’re almost like two different jobs or careers.With moving, it’s much more physical, there’s more people contact, and you really have to like people and make a difference in their life.” Moving can be very labor intensive, and injuries happen. In 2013, Merchants Moving and Storage started a program called MoveWell that puts safety and work injuries together with well- ness. “We’ve been very success- ful with our program,” Eastman remarks, “helping our employees when they do get injured, helping in our community. That’s really been very import- ant to me and my family, but also to our employ- ees, as well.We really feel that we can give back. When there was a water crisis in Flint, Michigan, I got a call from my police chief, who had received a lot of donations of water.Would we be able to help to transport it up to Flint? It was a great day for me to know that I had the resources to help. When we can make a difference like that, those are great days, and an important part of who we are at Merchants.” Now boasting 75 employees, all trained through its own Merchants University Training Program, Merchants Moving and Storage would rather find a mover with the right personality and turn them into truckers, than to start with truck- ers and teach them about moving. “We will rarely hire somebody with a CDL (Commercial Driver’s License),” Eastman notes. “You’ll rarely see a CDL driver driving freight move over into the moving