ACCENT MOVING & STORAGE

One of Oklahoma’s oldest moving and storage companies was started in Tulsa and is now under same family ownership in its 83rd year of business.

Accent Moving & Storage & Logistics was established in 1939 at 9 North Detroit as Tulsa Terminal Warehouse as an agent for Mayflower Transit. Lelia and Seth Davis opened the business to provide local, intra-state and inter-state moving services for household goods.

Today, the diversified company is owned by Joann “Jody” Davis, the granddaughter of the founders. Her parents, Joan and Jack Davis, followed the founders in ownership of the growing company in 1976. They changed the name to Accent Moving & Storage, Inc., and significantly diversified the company’s offerings to include moving high value electronics, plus tradeshow and commercial goods.

Since 1999, Jody Davis, as the third generation owner, has lead further expansion and diversification to the company’s offerings. “We expanded into the home delivery and other logistics lines of business,” she noted. “Accent also offers the local, intra-state, inter-state and international moving of household and commercial goods for relocation, storage of goods and records, warehouse distribution, home delivery, interior designers’ storage, delivery and set-up, and hospitality FFE.