Inc. Magazine ranked Luggage Forward the #34th fastest growing privately held Travel and Hospitality company in the United States. Named to the Inc. 500|5000 list for the third consecutive year, Luggage Forward ranks #3282 overall as the company continues to demonstrate a high growth trajectory.
Luggage Forward® Among ICIC and FORTUNE’s Inner City 100 Winners 2013
The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and FORTUNE announced that Luggage Forward (Rank #30) was selected for the 2013 Inner City 100, a list of the fastest-growing inner city companies in the U.S.
Ten bay state firms are named to the Inner City 100 Fastest Growing Companies list, a ranking compiled by the Boston nonprofit Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Fortune magazine, using five-year annual growth rates
Luggage Forward is the biggest baggage shipping game in town. It recently gobbled up Baggage Quest, Sports Express and Virtual Bellhop. They are all the same company now with slightly different websites, but they offer the same prices.
We’ve seen all the options for flying with gear, but what about shipping options? Showing up and having the gear already at the hotel is extremely convenient, but it is significantly more expensive and you obviously have to pack it all up at least a week in advance of your trip. Luggage Forward charges $79 for a pair of skis or a snowboard and $109 for two pairs of skis or two snowboards one way within the United States. There are weight restrictions as well (25 lbs. for one and 40 lbs. for two), and the prices above are only the basic shipping. Other add-ons, such as precise pickup times and priority shipping, will tack on even more.
Los Angeles Times Travel Editor, Catharine Hamm, finds that using Luggage Forward to ship toiletries abroad would cost less than even the cheapest rate offered at the Post Office and also notes that "You don't have to notify the hotel that something is arriving; Luggage Forward does it for you."
Golf Digest Travel Editor, Pete Finch, writes "I priced trips from New York to Bandon Dunes and Chicago to Myrtle Beach using Luggage Forward, FedEx and UPS. FedEx and UPS were generally more expensive and, honestly, their websites were far harder to navigate."