Sourcing City Marketplace has opened the appointment diaries for all invited distributors and attending suppliers. Both Days at SCM feature appointments, together with set ‘Runaround Sessions’. Both days are focused on appointments with Distributor VIP’s and Guests scheduled meetings lasting twenty minutes. Only professional distributor companies with a turnover in excess of £250k are invited to SC Marketplace.

Malcolm Watson, of Trade Exclusive supplier I Love Promoting, was regrettably unable to attend the recent Purple Club summit, but having read the report that followed with great interest he has taken the time to provide some observations on some of the issues discussed at the event and how his business related to the findings.

At the recent Purple Club Industry Summit one topic raised was the need for a ‘Quotation Request Checklist’ for new people joining distributor companies. This was seen as useful for training purposes, and even as a useful checklist for more experienced people.

MacDonald Fyne Associates Ltd have changed their name to MacDonald Fyne Ltd and will be operating under new ownership of Mike & Jackie Hart effective from 1st August 2015. Effective from the same date, MacDonald Fyne will be trading as a ‘Trade Exclusive’ supplier.

Attached is an economic report written by Roger Martin-Fagg & distributed in association with Sourcing City. Roger explains his assessment of the recent budget, questions how UK productivity is measured, gives a forecast on Greece, the USA & China, explain why we have five good growth years ahead, and more…

It is not often that a new service is announced several months before its arrival, however, Sourcing City launched Dynamic Highway at the Purple Club Industry Summit on Wednesday. Dynamic Highway is being developed to elevate the distribution and collection of data across the industry to a completely new level.