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Delivering Peace of Mind

Our Brands

Our custom moving and logistics services provide peace of mind to people and businesses worldwide

Residential Moving

Whether our customers are headed across town or across the world, Planes has dedicated, experienced teams to make it happen. Planes guides our customers through every stage of a move, treating their needs, preferences, and belongings as our own.

Business Solutions

Whatever the business, whatever the size, Planes offers a comprehensive set of services to tackle any moving, warehousing, logistics, and sustainability challenge. Our breadth of services, assets, warehouse space, and supplier network allows Planes to serve our customers every at every step.

GWS orchestrates complex, critical projects for customers nationwide. GWS provides highly specialized services serving offices and commercial spaces, the hospitality industry, and healthcare and lab facilities. Headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, GWS has teams in more than 20 locations nationwide with dedicated teams on the sites of major corporate campuses across the country.

Our TEAM Leaders

Our organization is guided by individuals that embrace the core principles of TEAM (Trust, Empowerment, Accountability, and Mesh)

CEO

John Planes

"John Planes is a third-generation owner of Planes Companies. His grandfather founded the company in 1921, and John has been part of the relocation industry since the late 1960s, working alongside his father as a child.

In the late 1970s, John became the youngest person to serve on the Board of Directors for Global Van Lines at age 31. He did so until Planes became a United Van Lines agent/owner in 1981. For 20 years, Mr. Planes also served on the Board of Directors at UniGroup, a $1.7 billion transportation company.

John began serving as Planes President in 1988, and in 2003, he took over as CEO of Planes Companies. In 2011, John Planes received the United Excellence Gene Anderson Award, which recognizes individuals who have shown particular dedication to the principles of quality and integrity in the United Van Lines system.

Leading a company that is deeply-rooted in family values, John lives a family-centered life when he is not working. John enjoys spending time with his grandchildren, traveling with his wife, and attending sporting events."

President

John Sabatalo

John Sabatalo has served as the President of Planes Companies since 2003. Prior to becoming a leader at Planes, John enjoyed a very successful career in athletics. After playing at both the high school and collegiate level, John's love for the game never left him: his coaching career began at the University of Cincinnati, where he was recruited to be part of their graduate assistant program. He then spent six years as the offensive coordinator of local powerhouse St. Xavier High School before becoming the school's youngest-ever athletic director. Following this success, he spent five years coaching football at Lakota High School, where he earned the distinction of Division I Coach of the Year.

John's passion for athletics remains a fundamental part of his character, as he is affectionately still called ""coach"" by many to this day. John's competitive spirit and his uncanny ability to align business strategy to the x's and o's of the sports world also led to the creation of Planes' TEAM culture. His leadership and transformational skills were key in his two terms on the UniGroup Board of Directors: from 2010-2018, and from 2019-2021. He also served on the Lexicon Relocation Board of Directors.

Beyond athletics and business, John's passions include spending time by the ocean and making memories with family and friends."