Creative Emporium Blog

Creative Emporium has just rolled out 400 ‘spring clean kits’ for Orange, in the first example of our extended buying service for unbranded, non-merchandise items.

As the provider of all Orange’s uniforms and name badges, we were asked to extend our remit to include supplies normally sourced by the Orange buying team. It soon became clear that outsourcing this service to Creative Emporium would significantly reduce their costs, due to our established supplier base, our buying power and our creative sourcing specialists.

The kits consisted of many typical cleaning products, but also contained additional products that were a new take or twist on the theme, including: fun polka-dot marigold gloves, feather duster, a cleaning instruction manual and a selection of retro sweets! The whole project was turned around in a very short time – receiving the brief on the 15th of December and getting the goods delivered on the 22nd. This was to approx 400 stores nationwide!

The project followed our first successful supply of non-branded office products, when we sourced and distributed paper-shredders for Orange, again saving them time and money. In this instance, we found a suitable product at half the price of their original quote! Jemma Graham, Orange Retail Governance Manager, says “the service we received from Creative was fantastic. The quality of the products and service was outstanding, even within the tight timescales!”

We think these examples have again proven how cost-effective our buying can be. It also demonstrates that many companies out there may be paying over the odds and don’t have the time or man-power to search out new or better deals. Because of this, for 2009 we will now be offering all our clients access to our buying service for any goods –branded or unbranded, commercial or utilitarian.“

If you want to see how much we can save on any products, please contact your account manager to get a quote, or email darren@creativeemporium.co.uk with your enquiry.