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Home Hardware Southwest Ltd - more than just a supplier


Home Hardware is more than just a supplier. It’s owned by its Retailers and run entirely for their benefit. Their mission as a Dealer Owned Company is to supply members with quality products and services, to provide them with the programmes to operate efficient and profitable stores, and by assisting them in serving the consumer with competitive prices and superior service.


Firmly focused on the needs of the membership, they work on the basis that by driving consumer demand through effective optional marketing, members’ business increases, which in turn increases overall business with suppliers. In essence, Home Hardware is about “people helping people” – the staff helping members and


members helping their customers. A family of retailers working together to secure their future.


Significant purchasing power together with the use of efficient systems enables them to provide their customers with excellent service and value.


They have a trading policy of only dealing with bonafide


Home Hardware is Britain’s Best Wholesaler


On Monday 6th February Home Hardware won Britain’s Best Housewares Wholesaler Award at the Housewares Innovations Awards dinner in Birmingham.


“It was an honour for me to collect the award from the Hairy Bikers


on behalf of Home


Hardware. It’s a proud achievement and reflects all the commitment, effort and hard work of all our staff throughout the company together with the support and loyalty from our Retailers.”


Said Chief Executive. Martin Elliott, The Awards Programme


rewards the finest achievements in the UK Housewares industry.


Home Hardware Southwest Ltd Chairman, David Adams said “We are always delighted to pay our members rebates to further reward the loyalty, commitment and support we are receiving from our suppliers, which has helped make this possible.”


independent Retailers. This means they do not deal with Internet only traders without a physical retail store and they


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don’t deal with any end users or tradesmen. The reason for this is they don’t want to deal with their Retailer’s customers.


Owned by retailers like these.


Hardware pays more than £160K to Members


Home Hardware


Southwest Ltd last year paid £163,000 to its members in the form of dividends and rebates.


“The Home Reward” Rebate


programme, further recognises our retailer’s commitment to Home Hardware, their own company” added Home Hardware Southwest Chief Executive Martin Elliott. “The increased levels of support, for both


warehouse and direct


shipment purchases, has enabled us to increase the rebate payments by almost 20%. The more our members order, the more efficient it becomes, enabling us to return savings to members”.


Industry leading Buyers Guide


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The Buyers Guide covers over 20,000 lines and gives detailed consumer related text for each product so it can also be used as a selling-aid. It’s in full colour, discounts are coded and all the relevant barcodes are included. There’s a full product to brand index and it’s re-printed every six months.


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