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Adams earns movers’ lifetime award
Gainesville’s Robert E. "Bob" Adams was awarded the Lifetime Achievement recognition at the Georgia/South Carolina Movers Associations Annual Meeting held recently in Amelia Island, Fla.
Adams is a founding member of the Georgia Movers Association, which was formed in 1946.
Adams began working in the moving business when he was a boy in the early 1930s. He drove horse-drawn transfer wagons for his grandfather, who was blind. Following his military service in Italy during World War II, Adams completed his bachelor’s degree in business administration at the University of Georgia and opened Adams Transfer Company in Gainesville in 1949. The company affiliated with Allied Van Lines in 1952.
Adams purchased his father’s company in Athens in 1957 and opened the Atlanta office in 1964. He retired from the day-to-day business operations in 1981, but has remained active in the company.
Adams Transfer and Storage was founded in 1903 and maintains operations in Gainesville and Atlanta. The company was awarded the 2003 Georgia Family Business of the Year by the Cox Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University . In 2008, it was honored as the Jeffrey Butland Family-Owned Business of the Year in Georgia by the U.S. Small Business Administration.