Qualification and Benefits of Membership
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Qualifications for membership (all of the following):  

• Any retail or multi unit bakery that has sales in excess of 1 million dollars.
• People who want to become more profitable and productive operators.
• People who want to save money on purchases.
• People who want to learn new ideas and share their ideas with others.

Benefits of joining:

 
1. Buying Power

• Strength in numbers
• The mid to large retailers are vendors and manufacturers most profitable customer. For years we have been unaware of this and have not demanded the service or pricing we deserve.
• Buy Better
• Save Money
• Control Quality
• Develop special and custom products
• Participate in special rebate and incentive programs.
• Identify strategic partners and vendors to help us buy more profitably.
• Free up purchase dollars for capital investment.

 2. Business Development

 3. Sharing experiences

• Many of us have opened new stores, remodeled existing ones or added more units.
• Share with each other the nuts and bolts of these endeavors. Every thing from location, construction, marketing and opening. It is all important and there is much to be learned from each other.
• Road trips to members bakeries with annual workshops for those who want to attend

4. Tax Planning

• To identify partners, products and strategies to help reduce, eliminate and/or reinvest dollars that would be paid as taxes.
• Find strategic partners and firms that specialize in this and familiarize them with our type business and our unique needs.

5. Lease and Purchase Models

• Identify banks, leasing companies and other sources of capital to help fund business capital improvements and expansion.
• Try to not just find money but find money at competitive rates and terms.

6. Hot Products

• We are some of the top innovators in our industry. We create or find products that are “HOT” fast movers, profit centers etc.
• Create a vehicle to share that quickly so we can all profit.
• Members only web site.

7. Arrange reciprocal visits to each others bakeries.

8. Learn the good the bad, what works for each baker and what doesn't

9. Training for staff and management

• Send staff to each others shops. To receive hands on training and ideas from new perspectives.

10. Sales Forecasting Models

• Stop operating in a vacuum.
• See what each of our group values in data information that is “must have” and what information is extraneous.