For the second year running, Spear’s recognises the best relocation and shipping specialists for high-net-worth individuals. The luxury relocation companies on our index provide premium services tailored to affluent clients, offering security, efficiency and attention to detail.
These experts offer ‘white glove’ packing and handling, and are entrusted with transporting and delivering priceless heirlooms, artwork and furniture for HNW clients relocating.
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A single relocation might involve transporting priceless artwork under climate-controlled conditions, managing complex international customs processes or coordinating a yacht, supercar or prize racehorse transfer. Jose Paulo Silva Viera’s company, Prestige Vehicle Transport, for example, specialises solely in moving cars that are too valuable or rare to risk a long journey on the open road. Alongside UK-based specialists on our index, are those with bases in Amsterdam, France and the US.
The quality of service is reflected in the calibre of their client lists – Cadogan Tate, for example, is trusted with removals for major museums and even the White House. They are trusted by the world’s most powerful and so the company’s bespoke moving boxes are constructed to transport delicate or unusually sized objects in the safest way possible.
For all the service providers on our index, every stage of the process is meticulously planned and executed: advisers work with highly trained staff, offer climate-controlled storage solutions and provide insurance cover for goods worth millions.
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Methodology
Each year, the Spear’s Research Unit reassesses and refreshes its rankings of the leading providers in each sector by gathering data from and about the advisers and firms themselves, assessing submission forms, collating nominations, carrying out peer reviews, reviewing data from third-party sources, gathering references and recommendations, canvassing experts and conducting hundreds of interviews.
Advisers are evaluated using a proprietary scoring system that assigns different weightings to certain attributes. These scores feed directly into each new set of rankings in the Spear’s Indices. Each of these indices are published first online (according to the research calendar) and then in print. Print publication takes the form of the annual Spear’s 500 directory, which includes the top advisers in every index.
[See also: A guide to The Spear’s 500: Everything you need to know]
Each featured adviser is profiled on spears500.com. The site allows users to search the Spear’s database of more than 4,000 entities to find one (or more) to meet their specific requirements by filtering for specific attributes such as an adviser’s location, their specialist expertise and information about their client base.
Relocation and shipping specialists: Some of the top names to know
Cadogan Tate
- Focus: Art transportation
- Ranking: Top Recommended
Cadogan Tate are one of the UK’s leading specialists in fine art logistics, removals and storage for some of the world’s most valuable households. Their hub offices in London, Europe and across the US are all highly secure as well as being climate controlled and available for private viewing of goods in storage.
In addition to private clients, Cadogan Tate is trusted with major removals by leading museums and the White House.
Read Cadogan Tate’s full profile on Spears500.com
Williams & Yates
- Focus: Moving homes, artwork and furnishing
- Ranking: Top Recommended
Williams & Yates is a leading company specialising in the relocation and shipping of valuable households. Known for its expertise in managing fine art, antiques and high-value items, the company serves primarily HNWs across London.
The company uses a ‘cradle to grave’ approach, assigning an individual manager to oversee every aspect of a move. This method ensures clients have a seamless experience, with a single point of contact coordinating specialists to manage even the most complex and delicate relocations.
Read Williams & Yates’ full profile on Spears500.com
Prestige Vehicle Transport
- Focus: Luxury car shipping
- Ranking: Top Recommended
Jose Paulo Silva Viera’s company, Prestige Vehicle Transport, specialises in one thing: moving cars that are too valuable or rare to risk a long journey on the open road.
The company is insured for cars worth up to £5 million as standard, and has no upper limit for the value they can carry by arrangement.
Read Prestige Vehicle Transport’s full profile on Spears500.com
DYT Yacht Transport
- Focus: Yacht transportation
- Ranking: Top Recommended
DYT Yacht Transport comes highly recommended by yacht brokers and designers; the company operates a shipping service that transports superyachts around the globe without exposing them to the risks and rigours of transoceanic voyages using semi-submersible transport vessels.
Read DYT Yacht Transport’s full profile on Spears500.com
Best relocation and shipping specialists: the complete list
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