central buying

Central buying is not new by any means for large retailers but the Limited officials believe they have carried it ahead further than most others.

The public and private health sectors must obtain all their requirements from the central buying agency.

Later, he was transferred as a financial expert in the central buying group of Belgian civilian administration.

The marketing services division is primarily involved in developing private labels and does some central buying for the company's store divisions.

A central buying office purchases the goods and all the shops draw their stock from this central store.

Central buying has changed all that.

Macy's central buying, merchandise planning, stores senior management and marketing functions will be located primarily in New York.

It also seems necessary to me to demand central buying offices for supermarkets, with the prices taking account of the real costs incurred by small-scale fishermen.

Speculation in London is that it will serve as the nucleus of a Saatchi & Saatchi central buying operation.

Seven chains have set up Today's Central Buying Company to give them similar bulk-buying muscle as Sainsbury and Tesco.

Global sourcing is often associated with a centralized procurement strategy for a multinational, wherein a central buying organization seeks economies of scale through corporate-wide standardization and benchmarking.

To compete with the central buying and advertising of Debenhams and other larger groups, the department stores owned by UDS were all gradually renamed Allders.

He has dramatically altered the way Federated selects and buys goods, vastly diluting the power of Federated's central buying teams that controlled all aspects of buying merchandise.

It is scandalous to leave these farmers at the mercy of processors and predators from the large central buying offices, which make profits at the expense of both producers and consumers.

A retailers' cooperative is essentially a group of independently owned businesses that pool their resources to purchase in bulk, usually by establishing a central buying organization, and engage in joint promotion efforts.

The John Lewis Partnership were the first department store group in the UK to adopt central buying, launching the 'Jonell(e)' name for own brand merchandise in 1937.

The Co-operative Travel Trading Group (or CTTG) was the central buying group for co-operative travel agents in the United Kingdom.

Under an integrated national pharmaceutical policy, the central buying agency channells all imports and production of pharmaceuticals, calling for worldwide bulk tenders which are limited to the approved drugs listed in the national formulary.

Increasingly, franchised convenience stores are invading their neighborhoods, faceless dealerships lacking physiognomy that stay open seven days a week and boast, thanks to their central buying power, prices well below those of their fragmented competitors.

It is one of the only real estate developers large enough to warrant a central buying and distribution office for key building materials like lumber and windows, and to manufacture its own roof trusses and wall panels.

It is home to the central buying service of international retail group Auchan, a R&D center of multinational agri-processor Tate & Lyle, and a data processing center of American company Xerox.

The MIServer 4/2 running Unix SVR4 will be installed at the company's Victoria offices in London running an in-house management information system used by the central buying office to analyse stock and sales information.

Decentralized purchasing and consolidated management techniques allowed individual store managers freedom to match their merchandise selection more closely with their own communities' needs, while the central buying office in Winnipeg handled such staples as HBC blankets, sheets, towels, dried fruit and so on.