Bronko Box in the news and press
Bronko Box rents reusable plastic moving boxes in Austin, TX. This page collects coverage of the company since it opened in 2013, plus community work and early company announcements. Prices and claims in old coverage reflect the time it was written; for current prices see the pricing page and for the company story see About.
In the press
Coverage of Bronko Box by other publications, podcasts and blogs.
- Bloomberg Businessweek: Startup's rent-to-move plastic boxes target cardboard competition. Businessweek carried the Austin American-Statesman story on Bo and Brooke Cox renting stackable plastic boxes with locking lids, delivered and picked up after the move.
- Austin American-Statesman: Local newspaper feature. Coverage of Bronko Box in the Austin daily; the story is behind a subscription paywall.
- Austin Monthly: Innovation issue. Profile of founders Brooke and Bo Cox and how commercial-moving plastic boxes inspired a residential rental company.
- Tribeza: Moving day made easier. The Austin lifestyle magazine described Bronko Box as a new Austin company delivering sturdy plastic containers for efficient packing.
- Culture Map Austin: Moving made easy. Included in a roundup of three local companies that make packing, moving and storage easier in Austin.
- The Austinot: Bronko Box featured. A hyperlocal Austin blog looked at the pain of moving within the city and how box rental fits in.
- 365 Things Austin: Feature on a local startup. A first-person feature by someone who had moved around Austin roughly once a year, on how Bronko Box takes the work out of packing.
- The American Genius: 9 Austin startups. Listed among new businesses founded in Austin worth following.
- AGBeat (American Genius Beat): AGBeat picks our brain. Interview with the owners on starting Bronko Box in 2013 to replace cardboard and tape with stackable plastic boxes.
- SpareFoot: Rebuilding the packing experience. The Austin startup SpareFoot interviewed the team about a rental alternative to buying and taping cardboard.
- Mad Betty: Bronko Box review. A candid first-hand review of moving apartments with Bronko Box.
- Study Breaks: College moving, Bronko Box style. A student writer's account of a college move with Bronko Box.
- All You Magazine: Smooth Your Move and Save. National magazine feature that included renting plastic boxes among its moving advice.
- Huffington Post: 10 Tips for Single Moms Moving Out of the Family Home. Bronko Box was mentioned in a feature of tips for moving out of the family home.
- Kyle Life: Podcast interview. Bo and Brooke Cox talked about running Bronko Box on a weekly podcast about local small businesses.
- Urban Provision Realtors: Bronko Box on the realtor blog. A realtor blog explained who Bronko Box is: a business built around boxes, not a moving company.
Community
Partnerships and campaigns with local nonprofits.
- American Widow Project: Bronko Box teams up with American Widow Project. Bronko Box announced it would donate box rental services through the Austin nonprofit to military widows with moving needs.
- Capital Area Food Bank of Texas: Bronko Box gives back. A past campaign in which Bronko Box donated part of an order's total to the food bank when customers used a checkout code.
From the company
Early announcements, kept for the record.
- Bronko Box: Press release: eco-friendly moving solution comes to Central Texas. The 2013 launch announcement: reusable plastic containers delivered assembled to the door, with self-locking lids and no tape.
- Bronko Box: Come on, March!. Pre-opening note from 2013: Bronko Box was almost ready to open and invited calls from people planning a spring move.
- Bronko Box: Better Boxes. A company post on the steps cardboard adds to a move (finding, building, taping, breaking down) and how rented plastic boxes skip them.
- Bronko Box: Reuse, Reduce and Relocate. Short note on why reusable boxes outlast cardboard, using the founders' own estimates.
- Intuit: Small Business, Big Game (rounds 1 and 2). Bronko Box asked customers to vote in Intuit's Small Business Big Game promotion, which advanced it to round two.
- Bronko Box: Small Business Week. A note on why shopping at local small businesses helps a community grow.
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