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believe it’s really important to have a strong relationship with our Suppliers, and it’s critical to growing our members’ sales. However, our Partners then ask that we commit to supporting our Suppliers, we need a strong culture of winning and high level deal support. “We want to have
competitive deals, we want to make sure our deals beat those of the nationals and the other buying groups, and we’re aiming for the NBG deal to be the best. Not just a standard buying group deal but one that really challenges all of us to be successful. If we value our democracy, then we believe that we have to work really hard to create a dynamic and friendly culture, with open communication and a shared knowledge base.”
Another of the main core values is: ‘Informed’: “We aim to provide industry-leading information systems and we believe it’s important to have innovative management systems, so in the age of IT second best isn’t a choice, which is why we’re working so hard on the new hub. “Another is ‘ Efficient’: we believe it’s really important to work as an efficient, professional, progressive buying group which is always looking to be better, and that includes driving costs out
Supplier Summit
Internal pushfit couplings
We represent 304 branches with a nationwide coverage meaning NBG has both significant presence and scale.” Nick Oates,
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of the whole supply chain, a whole area we have not focussed on previously, and are now looking to improve the efficiencies all down the chain.
“A third focus is on ‘Build’: by this we mean we want to grow NBG by attracting high quality independent merchants, and to grow our branch network further from existing partners. In 2017 we added three new partners, TBL, Norden Plumbing and Heating, and DW Burns. “We believe what we are doing distinguishes us as the premier buying group, with better buying terms which makes us better in the market, which results in better growth for all our Partners and suppliers together. Together, we can grow, bigger bolder and better. ”
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Another way Flexseal adds value.
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