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Building Supplies Co-op Triples Member Numbers Since Launching 7 Days Ago

Tuesday 1 May 2018, 2:14PM

By RedPR

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CBS Co-op Chair, Carl Taylor with Housing Minister Hon Phil Twyford at the launch a week ago
CBS Co-op Chair, Carl Taylor with Housing Minister Hon Phil Twyford at the launch a week ago Credit: Matthew Percival Photography
Hon Phil Twyford speaks with CBS Co-op director Michael Blackburn
Hon Phil Twyford speaks with CBS Co-op director Michael Blackburn Credit: Matthew Percival Photography

CANTERBURY

“A phenomenal response”.

That from Combined Building Supplies Co-operative Chair, Carl Taylor who says following the co-op’s launch last Tuesday (April 24th), the number of signed up co-op members has more than tripled to 76 (co-op members numbered 25 last Tuesday), there have been more than 100 downloads of the member application form and negotiations have started with new suppliers.

“We have been inundated by calls and emails from people all over the country,” he says. “There’s an excitement everywhere about the level playing field, purchase power-wise, we have created with the co-operative.”

CBS Co-operative, for the first time, enables all members (anyone in the construction industry) access to the same low rates that up ‘til now, only high-volume group builders have had access to.

“This response has put a significant pressure on the timing of a national rollout,” says Taylor. “We had intended to be in Auckland by the end of this year but the inquiry level from the top of the North Island may bring that forward.

Taylor says the co-operative won’t be rolling out beyond Canterbury until “all ducks are in a row” with regards to suppliers in other regions, as well as “on the ground co-operative support”.

Check out the website https://www.cbscoop.co.nz/     https://www.cbscoop.co.nz/become-a-member

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