2018 Sanitary Maintenance Distributor Choice Award Winners
Jan/san distributors voted for the best innovations in the industry. We will feature all 40 product winners. These products were chosen for many reasons: best-selling, most preferred, most recommended, most innovative, etc.
Buying Groups
Buying group leaders say that one of the biggest challenges facing their members is the market competition from big-box stores and e-tailers like Amazon Business. In this article, we'll interview these leaders and ask how their groups are helping distributors combat this threat.
Batteries
Lithium ion battery technology has entered the jan/san industry, primarily for backpack and upright vacuums. We'll discuss the advantages of these batteries, how to choose the right type, and proper disposal. We'll also look ahead to the future and address when lithium ion batteries are expected to be more common in larger equipment, such as autoscrubbers, sweepers and burnishers.
Private Label Products
When most people think of private label products, they think of chemicals. But often, there are a lot of other product categories in a distributors' private label line. This article will focus on some of these other categories, including paper, soap, mops and floor pads; and cover how to grow the private brand and why these categories can be just as profitable as chemicals.
Strategic Sell Sales Column
Product Information Management, or PIM, is managing all the data distributors need to market and sell their products. This information can be used to improve web sites, product catalogs, software programs and more. Tina Serio will discuss some of the advantages of using PIM systems.
Also in April Sanitary Maintenance:
- Face of the Industry
- Products
- Case Study
- Vendor Support
- Freetime Column