From the Fort
Team Spacesaver, Supply chain disruptions are real and continue to disrupt our business, which ultimately disrupts your business. Recently, our focus has been on unprecedented rising costs of commodities that account for most of our cost of goods sold (COGS). However, the disruptions are much more than rising costs. Like all manufacturing businesses across the […]
Team Spacesaver, I am happy to report that business remains strong through the first four months of the year; orders are at 109 percent of plan and sales are at 122 percent. Our focus on pipeline generation the last two years is clearly paying off as the economy continues to open up and recover. We […]
Team Spacesaver, Today’s message is from the heart, focused on giving thanks both personally and professionally to all of you, our Area Contractors and the industry’s best sales professionals. I not only thank you for the business you share with us every month, but just as important and most noticeable is the way we are […]
Despite the new challenges 2021 has presented, the Spacesaver Group is off to a strong start. We are coming in just at plan two months in and expect our first quarter shipments to be at plan or slightly above. As you know, we were proactive in announcing our price increase at the end of January. […]
Happy New Year – the new season has begun! Again, congratulations on a great 2020, and now it’s time to FOCUS 100 percent on 2021. We have received a lot of positive feedback on our 2021 Virtual Principals Meeting, which was held on January 22nd. It was not ideal to meet virtually versus in person, […]
It’s hard to believe that 2020 is basically in the books. We, as the Spacesaver Group, had to adapt to many challenges and change the way we worked and interfaced with our customers. As a team, we accomplished what other competitors, companies and industries could only have hoped for; we will exceed our 2020 top […]
As promised last month, I am sharing our high-level strategic initiatives for 2021. A lot of work and planning went into these over the last several months and they are very important for not only 2021, but foundationally for our future. Innovation: Innovation continues to be our priority and focus. Not only do we plan […]
It’s hard to believe we are already in the fourth quarter of 2020, the home stretch. I know many of us would like to forget 2020 for many obvious reasons, but the Spacesaver Group has again shown its resiliency and fight. We are blessed to be having a very solid year due to all your […]
I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend and you were able to recharge for the year end push. After much thought and reflection this past weekend, I am going to dedicate my opening to some of the great pioneers, leaders and friends of The Spacesaver Group lost this past year. Their contributions to […]
One of our strategic initiatives entering 2020 was to increase our engagement with our exclusive distribution network of Area Contractors. I am confident you are seeing this on a monthly basis from all areas of our business. Our engagement strategy centers around innovation, which is so much more than new products. It also includes the […]
It is hard to believe that half of 2020 is in the books. I know many of us wish 2020 was all the way behind us, but we still have six months to go. Even with all the challenges and changes that have taken place and continue, as an Area Contractor group, we are producing […]
This monthly newsletter gives me a great opportunity to provide you with business updates on a regular basis and a chance for us to stay connected. As you know, our theme this year is FOCUS, and I’m proud to see all of us staying focused and productive. The Spacesaver Group has rallied during these challenging […]