Office Movers Express Expands Regional Footprint With the Acquisition of Two Baltimore Firms

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 26, 2026--

Office Movers Express (OMX), the Washington metro region’s only mover exclusively serving commercial clients, has announced the acquisition of two prominent Baltimore companies: Hoffberger Moving Services (HMS), Baltimore’s largest commercial mover specializing in healthcare and laboratory relocation services, and Re-form, the mid-Atlantic’s only used office furniture reseller, refurbisher and inventory manager.

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The acquisitions more than double the size of OMX and significantly expand the company’s service capabilities, fleet size and warehousing/storage locations across the Baltimore Washington corridor. It provides HMS, founded in 2007, and the 37-year-old Re-form the benefit of OMX’s resources and four decades’ experience as they enter the Washington market.

“The need for an office mover is by nature an intermittent one,” said OMX President Mike Miller. “Acquiring two firms who also only serve commercial customers and who provide complementary services to ours gives us additional resources to fulfill more diversified customer needs more often, while also broadening our customer base.”

HMS and Re-form will continue to serve their Baltimore customers with commercial moving, refurbished furniture sales and inventory management while maintaining current staffing levels in Baltimore. Corporate management will be administered by OMX from their headquarters in Beltsville, MD.

Re-form CEO Clayton Fisk said: “With OMX’s resources they can now provide a more complete portfolio of services – including decommissioning and disposal. And their customers can now rely on one trusted partner to handle the full lifecycle of office furniture from repurposing and refurbishing, to resale and recycling in the Baltimore Washington area.”

Together, the three companies provide moving and storage services for some of the most well-known names in commercial, government and health-related industries: Johns Hopkins, NIH, The Smithsonian, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, American University, The Library of Congress, CareFirst, the Pentagon, IMF and many of the top 100 law firms in Washington.

OMX is the only moving company in the region exclusively dedicated to commercial clients in DC, Maryland and northern Virginia since 1981. The firm also provides complete office decommissioning services as well as short and long-term storage in its 100,000 square feet of climate-controlled and video-monitored warehouses.

Office Movers Express (OMX), the Washington DC region's only mover exclusively serving commercial clients has announced the acquisition of two prominent Baltimore firms, Hoffberger Moving Services (HMS) and Re-form, the mid-Atlantic's only used office furniture reseller, refurbisher and inventory manager. Together, the three companies provide moving and storage services for some of the most well-known names in commercial, government and health-related industries: Johns Hopkins, NIH, The Smithsonian, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, American University, The Library of Congress, CareFirst, The Pentagon, IMF and many of the top 100 law firms in Washington.

SEATTLE (AP) — Press “two” for Spanish ... accent?

For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent. The agency has since apologized and says it's trying to fix the problem.

Washington resident Maya Edwards learned of the AI-accented voice last summer after her Mexican husband tried using the Spanish-language option while seeking information about his driver’s license. He is bilingual but saw that the wait time for speaking to a customer service representative in English was long, so he hit “two” for Spanish.

For Edwards, it was a like a scene out of “ Parks and Recreation,” a mocumentary-style comedy show that satires local government.

“It was hilarious to us in the moment because it was so absurd,” she said Thursday. “But at the same time, it has real accessibility issues for people who call in every day and need to speak in a different language other than English.”

Earlier this month, Edwards called the number again and found the error persisted. She posted a video of the call to TikTok, racking up around 2 million views.

The Washington Department of Licensing said in a statement that it was trying to fix the Spanish option and figure out how it happened in the first place. It noted that the self-service option includes 10 languages and runs on a newer, AI-driven technology. It was not immediately clear if the issue had affected other languages; efforts by The Associated Press to use the phone service in some of the other languages Thursday did not prompt additional accented voices.

“DOL apologizes for the error and to its customers for any inconvenience,” the statement said. “An unfortunate byproduct of expanding services is that DOL found problems with the self-service option.”

The agency declined to share the name of the AI vendor providing the translation service, referring the question to WaTech, the state's interagency IT service. A spokesperson for the agency did not immediately provide the name of the vendor following AP voice and email messages requesting it.

Thursday morning, the call line still put on the voice after a message, in English, acknowledging that the some translation services are no functioning properly.

When an AP reporter followed prompts for Spanish-language options, he was met with an accented English voice accent that would only say numbers in Spanish.

“Your estimated wait time is less than ‘tres’ minutes,” the voice said.

Washington resident Maya Edwards is interviewed via Zoom on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo)