A 40,000-square-foot lease recently signed in Irvine is the latest sign of growth for a niche delivery company.
Launched in 2017, Consider It’s Delivered has expanded from one delivery truck to eight, two employees to about 20, and monthly revenues from just $2,000 to nearly $200,000.
Founder Mark Anderson said this growth is due to finding a niche in the delivery industry: working directly with art showrooms and independent designers to deliver and install extremely valuable luxury pieces of furniture and other items to homes and businesses.
“We’ve done everything from small art deliveries to a 172-piece delivery and installation for a five-story beach house,” Anderson told the Business Journal.
Lake Forest Leap
The new office and warehouse facility at 15041 Bake Parkway, a block away from the headquarters of Karma Automotive, is a huge leap from its previous, 7,000-square-foot location in Lake Forest.
“We are actively hiring, especially for drivers,” said Anderson.
The firm primarily services Orange County and Los Angeles markets, and also facilitates delivery in other West Coast states for its larger clients by working with freight companies like Old Dominion Freight Line.
Laguna Design Center
Consider It’s Delivered got its start when an investor, Lynda Roese-Vaupel, approached Anderson with the idea of beginning a delivery company.
He wanted to make it more specific, and a visit to the Laguna Design Center—a design-centric shopping center—provided inspiration.
“I walked into each store and asked them what their pain points were with delivery companies, and they all said the same thing: There are plenty of companies, but the bar for service and reliability is low,” Anderson said. “We wanted to change that.”
After nabbing a few big clients—the Laguna Niguel shopping center and Costa Mesa-based Designer Resource Collection, for example—“the business blew up from there,” he said.
“Now we are in our largest space yet, and we have clients who aren’t sure how long it will be until we have to move to a larger facility.”
