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Moving company president carries on family tradition. (A-Rocket Pres./CEO DeAndre Sams)(Minority-Owned Businesses)

Houston Business Journal

| October 23, 1998 | Qaddumi, Thora | COPYRIGHT 1985 American City Business Journals, Inc. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A-Rocket Inc.

DeAndre Sams president/CEO

1998 emerging E-10 Award Winner

Although he heads a moving company, DeAndre Matthew Sams hasn't traveled far from his roots in Houston's African-American community.

A native Houstonian, DeAndre still maintains a residence in the Third Ward with his wife, Sonia, and their two-year-old son, DeAndre Jr.

Sams is president and CEO of A-Rocket Moving & Storage Inc., a company founded in 1959 by his parents, Herbert Sams, who is now retired, and Irlene Sams.

"I'm always teased by my folks that I've never had a job. But if this isn't a job, I don't know what one is," says Sams, who has worked in the …

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