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April 22, 2008 / ecorazzi.com
Celebrity Moving Company Unpacks A Greener Future

While the rest of us dangle free beer and pizza in an effort to gather friends for “big moves”, the wealthy amongst us simply write a check and go to a resort & spa for a few days. Of course, we all know they’re missing out on the joys of self-moving - the backaches, stresses, and UHaul gripes — but us little people have to have some secrets too...[read more]

April 21, 2008 / Los Angeles Business Journal
Real Moving Experience

NorthStar Moving, a local moving company, has three new packages for its high-end clients: The Paris, which offers pet pampering during a move; the Angelina, which offers babysitting for kids; and the Britney, which offers the help of professional organizers to make moving easier...[read more]

April 8, 2008 / BBC America

NorthStar Moving was featured in a segment about small businesses coping with the recession on BBC World News America

March-April, 2008 /Focus Magazine
How to Make Your Residents’ Moves a Success

Moving residents in an out of a condominium is a constant challenge for a community manager. Communicating some basic tips regarding selection of a moving company to your residents can help to ensure that their move is stress-free. Below is a simple guide for your residents to use...[read more]

March, 2008 /Fortune Small Business Magazine
Moving on Up

Flat is the new up, especially in any business that touches on real estate. That's why Ram Katalan is proud that his company's revenues are holding steady - a feat he has worked hard to achieve, while many of his colleagues in the moving and storage industry are suffering 20% declines.
As president of NorthStar Moving in Los Angeles, Katalan began to see a sickening slide in his bookings about a year ago. When he realized his business was weakening most among middle-income clients, he refocused on the high-end market, which is less susceptible to economic fluctuations...[read more]

March 4, 2008 /CNNMoney.com
Defying the downturn

As president of NorthStar Moving in Los Angeles, Ram Katalan began to see a sickening slide in his bookings about a year ago. When he realized his business was weakening most among middle-income clients, he refocused on the high-end market, which is less susceptible to economic fluctuations.

To attract luxury customers, Katalan, 43, expanded his premium services and launched new ones, including Photo Perfect Packing, in which every object is photographed and inventoried before being loaded onto a truck. Movers then arrange everything in the new home to correspond as closely as possible to the previous layout...[read more]

January 1 2008 /Valley Magazine
Wide Open Spaces

Professional organizers and design experts offer sleek, sensible suggestions on how to prevent the things you own from owning you.
Clutter is as much an environmental problem as it is a personal one. “I really see [decluttering’ as an outgrowth of the green trend, and people are giving serious thought to whether or not they really need all of this stuff,” McHolm asserts. “I also think people need to seriously look at how they really live, as opposed to the fantasy life they may have imagined when they purchased something....[read more]

2008 /How to cheat at Organizing by Jeff Bredenberg, The Taunton Press
Chapter Five: Storage Spaces

Full-service container storage. Ram Katalan president of NorthStar Moving Company in Chatsworth, California, is pioneering a unique menu of moving services. His company will send professional movers to pick up belongings from your home, inventory them...[read more]

2007 / My First Home from the Learning Channel

NorthStar Moving is proud to be the mover of choice for first time home buyer Rob, a visual effects designer, as seen on this episode (season 1, episode 3) of My First Home on The Learning Channel.

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November 13, 2007 / MSNBC.com
Hey OPEC, My Dog is Freezing

It’s getting less worth it for me to drive to business meetings in New York from my home in Wilmington, Delaware. Amtrak has been seeing a lot of me lately. And it’s been freezing in my home office because I refuse to turn up the heat. I don’t care if the dog is shivering. I don’t know about you guys but I’ve been trying to change my habits to deal with rising energy prices. Not that it’s making much of a difference...[read more]

November 12, 2007/ San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Quick Learners

This year's crop of fast-growing companies mixes inventiveness, vitality, experience and keen attention to their markets...[read more]

2007 / L.A. Splash Magazine
NorthStar Moving Review - The Best In Their Business!

It can be such a hassle to move your belongings from Northern California to Southern California or vise versa. Nobody wants to stress over how to get all his or her furniture, clothes, and precious items to a new location safe and sound. I know if my family and I tried to figure out how to move our belongings to our new location without any help, our valuables wouldn’t make it to our new place in the same condition it left our old. So we did what most people in California moving do, we turned to NorthStar Moving Corporation— Citysearch’s Best Mover 2007! ...[read more]

August 23, 2007 / Greetings from Huntington Beach
People Move to Popular Huntington Beach

NorthStar Moving Corporation, one of the leading residential and commercial moving companies in California, has determined Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Costa Mesa were three of the most popular cities out of five to move to in Orange County...[read more]

August 15, 2007 / Huntington Beach Independent
Many move to Huntington

NorthStar Moving Corporation has determined Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Costa Mesa were three of the most popular cities out of five to move to in Orange County...[read more]

August 14, 2007 / Daily Pilot
Newport, Costa Mesa, Huntington top city list

NorthStar Moving Corporation one of the leading residential and commercial moving companies in California, has determined that Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach were three of the five most popular cities to move to in Orange County so far this year...[read more]