The Crown Worldwide Group has officially begun its operation in Saudi Arabia. The company's first office in the kingdom is located in Riyadh and will provide global mobility and moving services. It will be led by country manager Alexis Saporta.

Mr Saporta, who previously worked with Crown in several European locations, including Italy and Russia, has spent the last 18 months organising the Riyadh office. He and his staff will concentrate on servicing the area's oil, bank and para-petroleum organisations.

Crown, Saudi Arabia, will serve all of the major cities in the kingdom, but mainly Riyadh, Jeddah, Khobar, Dammam, Jubail and Yanbu.

BTR International, which offers a range of international and domestic removal services, has won FIDI-FAIMISO accreditation, achieving a 99% company programme score.

"We are extremely proud of this achievement," says Jonathan Pinchin, the company’s managing director and founder. "Currently, we are one of only two organisations within the UK relocation and removals industry to have successfully achieved FIDI-FAIMISO accreditation as well as both ISO9001 and ISO1400."

To obtain the FIDI-FAIMISO quality standard, a company must achieve a certain mark in 16 key areas, including business competence, quality and environment, resources and service. BTR International outperformed the industry benchmark in almost all categories.

Says Jonathan Pinchin, "Everyone in our team deserves this accolade of holding the top three industry accreditations, and we will work hard to maintain this achievement."

Visit www.btrinternational.com for more information.

Interdean, the international relocation services company has sponsored Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ successful climb to the summit of the Eiger’s treacherous north face.

The climb was made in support of Marie Curie Cancer Care and Sir Ranulph hopes to raise £1.5 million for the Marie Curie Delivering Choice Programme, which he was moved to support after losing his wife, sister and mother to cancer all within an 18-month period.

Vitamins and Paracetamol can lead to prison, warn experts

Brits moving to the sunnier climes and economic rewards of Dubai risk prison if they fail to pack carefully, warns specialist international moving company Cadogan Tate.

A husband and wife team is heading up Move Plus, a new Irish company in the domestic and international relocation and moving business. Although Move Plus is a new name in the very competitive domestic and international relocating business, both Robert Gilbert, who is the Managing Director, and Rhona Doris, a Director, are veterans of the business, and between them have over 30 years experience. The current downturn in the Irish economy has seen a contraction in the level of domestic relocation activity, but Robert Gilbert says that corporate relocations, both domestic and international, are still very strong. "Irish companies are always looking for the best buildings, rentals and locations, and there is still a very strong flow of personnel from international companies either being moved to Ireland, or relocating abroad after a period working here.