£500 worth of free power tools

[Ray Stafford]

How about aylesbury?
town population 56,000
urban population of 140,000
Man I have in mind is screwfix supervisor, but for £500 free tools, I can find someone!!

Aylesbury might be possible. The immediate population is at the low end, but the vale of Aylesbury is well over the 100k mark.

Nothing wrong with being a screwfix supervisor - one of our highest performing branch managers worked at Screwfix before coming to us. The only thing I would say is that if they aren't dedicated to customer service, then don't bother. Its the only thing that we can't either teach, or provide centrally.

So find me someone Jase, and we will be there by Easter 2015...

 

[Ray Stafford]

£500 retail or wholesale? either way it sounds a lot less than a recruitment agency would charge you ray

Actual sharp end price - you find a tool that you can buy for £500 and I'll foot the bill. And of course its less than a recruitment agency would charge - they typically charge 15% of annual salary. But a) they have overheads that you don't and b) I dont use them anyway!

 

[WaterTight]

you find a tool that you can buy for £500 and I'll foot the bill.

deal.

 

[Nostrum]

I could get you someone in Plymouth tomorrow.

Fairly central to the whole of the South west. You could have a micro site to start and a distribution hub to feed all of the webbed feet crowd?

But im guessing you've done your homework on delivery data from the Internet site and your key areas of business are more North than west?

 

[Ray Stafford]

I could get you someone in Plymouth tomorrow.

your key areas of business are more North than west?

Its just operationally easier to keep the branches relatively close together - they can give mutual support when staff are sick or on holiday, swap stock around, cover deliveries etc. Internal support staff (like HR, IT, Marketing) etc can get to any branch quickly, and on routine matters can cover 6 to 8 branches per day. If we spread them apart we lose those synergies and increase costs with no advantage.

 

[Chalked]

Why don't you come to Ripon , north yorks.

it has 16,000 population and I think it's short on suppliers
wolseley (plumb Center )head office.
plumb Center branch
large jewsons
large MKM.
large travis Perkins .
screwfix
ripon builders supplies
north yorkshire timber
ripon timber supplies
PTS

and a partridge in a pear tree. Set up there Ray, you could dilute the market even more.

 

[PlumbersMate]

Ray I'm telling ya mate St Albans is the place for you, I know of only 1 independent there and it's pony

 

[Ray Stafford]

Ray I'm telling ya mate St Albans is the place for you, I know of only 1 independent there and it's pony

Yep, St Albans would fit the profile perfectly. So if you can introduce me to a potential branch manager, £500 worth will be yours...

 

[PlumbersMate]

Me? Id l

 

[iain85]

Ray come to Canterbury! Crying out for a decent supplier and I know some one who would be ideal to run it and could bring a lot of business with him.

population 150,000 according to Wiki

 

[Ray Stafford]

Ray come to Canterbury! Crying out for a decent supplier and I know some one who would be ideal to run it and could bring a lot of business with him.

population 150,000 according to Wiki

Hi Iain.

Canterbury would be of interest to us. Talk to your contact...

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

Hi Iain.

Canterbury would be of interest to us. Talk to your contact...

you wont come to wales though Swansea is close to me theres not many people living there though only 239,000 or Cardiff 346,100