Allied Pickfords Australia


Allied Pickfords Australia is a moving company in Australia. It maintains 40 branches across all states of Australia, and over 600 locations worldwide providing removal services across the entire country, and is a subsidiary of SIRVA.

History

Allied Pickfords Australia was established in 1926 as family-owned moving company named Downard Transport. In 1973 a joint venture was formed with Gascoyne Trading Company to enter the interstate freight forwarding market between Victoria and Western Australia. In 1982, British-based Pickfords, bought the company to form Downard Pickfords.
In 1991, as part of a global rebranding exercise, Downard Pickfords became Allied Pickfords. In 1996, Allied Pickfords was included in the sale of Pickfords by the National Freight Corporation to Allied Van Lines. In 1999 Allied Van Lines was purchased by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and merged with North American Van Lines to become SIRVA.

Business

Allied Pickfords Australia has 400 year-round employees, with an additional 50-100 seasonal workers during the removals busy season, November to February.