Worktown, “Working 4 Schools and College’s”

Over 20,000 products!
A new approach to supplying Schools and college’s consumables

From pens and paper to computers and furniture, from erasers to electrical organisers, from plants to projectors, you'll find everything you need at Worktown.com

Imagine not only a catalogue with everything you require, but also a catalogue individually priced and built into your very own, unique, on-line purchasing system with the following  

Sounds too good to be true don’t it!

Working 4 Schools and College’s is a very exciting BRAND, and we know how very busy schools and colleges are, but can you afford not to spare 5 minutes of your time finding out what it is all about?  This could be the biggest time saving exercise you ever do!  We are expecting demand to be high, so requests and enquiries will be dealt with as quick as possible.

Let us concentrate on the delivering so you can concentrate on the teaching…

This family business started in a small retail unit in 1984 and expanded through a mix of organic growth and company acquisition Today Worktown generate an annual turnover of £9 million.  Worktown has moved away from managing it, it has taken up a position of managing the ordering process and we believe this is a far more efficient way of working. Worktown is able to service its customer base with a product range that runs to 20,000 lines. The vast majority of these are delivered via next day delivery if the order is placed before 5:30pm the afternoon before.

Worktown methods of keeping costs under control have been achieved by taking a long, hard look at the number of suppliers that are dealt with. At one time Worktown was sourcing from 150 separate companies with all the attendant problems. No one contract was large enough to justify Worktown being offered a discount that it could then pass on to its own customers. The answer was to rationalise the supply base so that today Worktown has a close relationship with just 17 suppliers. Even this does not reveal the true picture. One supplier, Spicers, gets over 90 per cent of Worktown’s business.

By offering that scale of business, Worktown has been able to negotiate very favourable terms. Spicers of course are relieved of the costs of dealing with a multitude of individual customers. By focusing on delivery and added value, Worktown has been able to compete on factors over and above price. Our customers understand the value of the service we offer, by being able to rely on us, they are able to reduce their own inventories of office equipment. They can track the progress of their orders online and we can provide them with accurate management information. This gives them an exact breakdown of their spending and therefore they can keep control. Overall, the client has to do much less work to keep their departments running efficiently. We have a highly successful business to business website which now brings in around 65 per cent of our repeat business.

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