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Gentle Giant celebrates 30 years in business!
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Original $17 ad in the Boston Phoenix
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Owner and Founder, Larry O'Toole, works on the trucks in the early days of the business.
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Owner and Founder, Larry O'Toole, works with long time Giant and partner, John Pacocha, to move historic stone lions from Boston's Chinatown.
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Conducting a move in Boston's Chinatown in the early days of the company.
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Tug-o-War has been a summer party tradition for years... THEN...
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Gentle Giant has a long standing tradition of hiring rowers. In 2002, a grant from the company helped launch the Gentle Giant Rowing Club.
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Our uniform shorts have gotten a *little* longer!
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Giants then...
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Gentle Giant's trucks were not always the famous purple color with the big yellow feet!
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Training has always been an important part of Gentle Giant's culture. Here, Steven "Rooty" Leonard leads a furniture prep class in the warehouse.
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Jackie O'Toole became one of the company's first sales people in the early '80s! She is with the company today.
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Two "Hall of Fame" Giants, Steve Hart and Robert Swift relax at one of the company's first summer outings.
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"Hall of Fame" Giant, Bruce West hangs out at one of the company's first summer parties.
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"Hall of Fame" Giant, Robert Swift shows off his stuff!
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The uniform t-shirts haven't changed a bit!
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Loading one of the old grey and black Gentle Giant trucks.
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Loading one of the old grey and black Gentle Giant trucks.
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Gentle Giant started as a local company, moving Boston residents, but we've grown to more than 15 locations nationwide!
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Though we've grown, Gentle Giant will never forget its roots and how loyal the residents of Boston have been to our company.
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In 1989, Gentle Giant is named to the Inc. 500 list as one of the fastest growing companies in the country.
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In 1996, Gentle Giant won the first of nine Best of Boston awards by Boston Magazine.
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Featured on the cover of Bay State Realtor in 1997
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In 1998, Gentle Giant performed the moving logistics for the annual Boston Marathon for the first time, a duty that we maintain each year.
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In 2002, Gentle Giant was honored to be named the Small Business of the Year by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
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Gentle Giant goes Hollywood! In 2005, we were selected to be featured in our own reality TV series, Make Your Move.
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In 2006, Gentle Giant was honored to win the International Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics by the Better Business Bureau.
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In 2007, Gentle Giant was named a winner of the Top Small Workplaces Award by the Wall Street Journal and Winning Workplaces.
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In 2008, Gentle Giant was honored to be named to the Globe 100 list as a Top Place to Work by the Boston Globe.