From the Fort
Team, We are in the home stretch of 2021, one more quarter to go! Our Virtual Principals Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 13th. In addition to covering our strategic initiatives for 2022, we will be sharing the Spacesaver Group’s performance through nine months and our forecasted finish to 2021. I will also be sharing […]
Team, It’s hard to believe summer is almost over and we are heading into fall already. This transition means much more than the return of football and pumpkin spice lattes (sorry, I have never had one and probably never will), but a time to FOCUS on 2022. As mentioned last month, we are putting the […]
Team, This is a follow up to my “Spacesaver Recovery Efforts” update sent to all Area Contractor Principals and Sales Managers on July 27, 2021. We are making positive progress to our plan and are on track to recover on-time delivery to budget levels and lead time reduction to goals by mid-October. In fact, we […]
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 […]