Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Bekins Company
Once a major company in moving household goods in the US. Pioneer: "Bekins was the first company to use covered moving vans on the West Coast and to specialize in moving household goods." per a company history at "International directory of company histories‎" - Page 48 (http://books.google.com/books?id=m-3XAAAAMAAJ&q=moving+bekins&dq=moving+bekins&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0 snippet view The quote comes up in the http://books.google.com/books?as_q=moving&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=bekins&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&lr=&as_vt=&as_auth=&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_isbn=&as_issn= Google Book Search which has lots of references: http://books.google.com/books?id=EjgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64&dq=moving+bekins&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=moving%20bekins&f=false, http://books.google.com/books?id=kOjdvXFwes8C&pg=PT70&dq=moving+bekins&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=moving%20bekins&f=false,  http://books.google.com/books?id=TBMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=moving+bekins&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0#v=onepage&q=moving%20bekins&f=false. http://books.google.com/books?id=iUs1AAAAMAAJ&q=moving+bekins&dq=moving+bekins&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0 Business Week in 1988 called Bekins the "acknowledged marketing leader" and said they introduced several innovations.  Back in 1982 it was a $300 million dollar a year company with 6700 employees, per http://books.google.com/books?id=D7ZVAAAAMAAJ&q=moving+bekins&dq=moving+bekins&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0 (info ion Google Book Search result, snippet view only). It was one of the 6 top U.S. moving firmshttp://books.google.com/books?id=srVPAAAAMAAJ&q=moving+bekins&dq=moving+bekins&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0 (snippet only, info from Google book search  summary). So sources can be found to improve the article and address the nominators concerns, and it appears to satisfy 
— User:Edison, 23:48, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)