Leading C-Store Operator Holiday Stationstores Chooses Category One to Provide Online Sourcing Services
Pilot Leads to Expanded Application of Technology and Services
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 1, 2007 -- Category One (C1), a California Based provider of reverse auction and eRFX services and technology, announced that Holiday Stationstores has chosen the C1 reverse auction platform to support Holiday’s cost reduction efforts. The announcement comes on the heels of a successful pilot period, during which Holiday successfully sourced items ranging from Foodservice ingredients and packaging to store supplies. Holiday took advantage of Category One’s supplier database, reverse auction website, and category sourcing strategies to achieve double-digit savings on most items.
“The Category One e-sourcing process and technology delivers great results, from suppliers we can trust,” says Martha Glende, Merchandising Director for Holiday Stationstores. “Category One knows the key suppliers, the current market conditions, and how to best describe what we buy. The result was far more competition than we have witnessed in the past, and significant savings to the bottom line."
“Holiday Stationstores delivers a great experience to the convenience store customer. It is critical that their suppliers deliver high quality goods and services to protect that image. We are very excited to have helped Holiday identify competitive suppliers with great products,” says Mark Shanley, Vice President with Category One. “Supporting and preparing vendors to bid competitively is what we do best, and the technology delivers market leading pricing.”
About Holiday Stationstores
Headquartered in Bloomington, MN, Holiday Stationstores is a leading convenience store and gas retailer in the markets it serves, with over 420 corporate and franchise locations in 12 states throughout the upper tier of the United States, including Alaska. Holiday is recognized for the quality of its Holiday Pantry food products program, and as the sole distributor of Blue Planet gasoline, the industry's clean air choice Leader.
About Category One
Based near Los Angeles, Category One (www.cat-one.com) was formed in 2003 by Supply Chain and Technology Leaders to focus on delivering e-sourcing expertise to several verticals, including Grocery, Convenience, Logistics, and Food. Category One maintains thousands of vendor contacts in the verticals they support. The Category One technology is provided on a SaaS (Software as a Service) basis, on either a full or self-service basis. Virtually all of Category One’s clients report a return on investment exceeding 2 or 3 times the cost of the service. Category One partners with Portum AG, a leading European provider of eProcurement Technology. Contact Category One at mshanley@cat-one.com or 1-877-526-1183.
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