P3: PURCHASING POWER
PARITY INDEX
Pricing parity is a significant challenge in the global foodservice industry. The Big Mac Index, developed by The Economist in 1986, provides a practical solution for comparing prices across different markets. By using this index, foodservice organizations can standardize their pricing strategy, ensuring consistency, fairness, and improved profitability.
VIVREAU
Vivreau has been at the forefront of innovation in water sustainability for more than 30 years. Replacing single-serve bottled water with Vivreau on-site bottling systems, reusable glass bottles, and self-serve dispensers have helped hundreds of clients become more environmentally responsible.
Stylish mains-fed dispensers provide great-tasting, filtered drinking water to keep employees and customers hydrated and healthy. Vivreau is ideal for offices, healthcare, and hospitality environments.
Vivreau - changing the way you drink water, sustainably.
OPTIMBUY
OPTIMBUY is an industry leading procurement firm offering consulting services that review your current business spend, analyze opportunities, and support your business to realize savings - often without the change of supply chain partners or products.
Specializing in supply chain management initiatives in Food Service and Hospitality procurement: food, beverage, paper & disposables, cleaning products, small wares, and equipment. OPTIMBUY clients typically purchase between $15 to $200 million annually, and realize savings of between 3% and 9%+.
"Optimize your company purchasing power, today."
MONEYPENNY
Moneypenny’s reputation for high-quality call and chat handling provision makes them the leading provider to businesses and organizations across all industries.
By truly reflecting how you want to speak to callers and website visitors, your dedicated Moneypenny Receptionists will quickly become a seamless extension of your business. On hand 24/7, their can-do attitude and attention to detail deliver outstanding service to your customers and staff and can represent significant cost savings.
"Seamless support for your calls and live chat from the leading virtual receptionist provider"
SOCIAL SALES LINK
LinkedIn is probably one of the most powerful business tools available to us today. Social Sales Links CEO Brynne Tillman and her team help organizations and individuals navigate their way through the features, functionality, and opportunity that LinkedIn represents.
Listen to an array of podcasts and engagements to the team and one-on-one support including building your profile, your contacts, to ways to engage better with your audience.
"Converting Connections to Conversations through the Power of LinkedIn."
FARM FROM A BOX
This cleantech-powered infrastructure for community-based local food production is pretty cool. As an off-grid, decentralized modular farm system, Farm from a Box helps strengthen local and regional food systems by providing the technology, increasing production sustainably, efficiently, and regeneratively. Instead of mass production, the goal is to empower production by the masses.
Each unit is independently powered with renewable energy and combines cold storage, solar pumping, and irrigation with an IoT data management platform in one deliverable system. These modular units support anywhere between 2-10 acres of high-value outdoor irrigated crop production.
“Clean technology for Local, Climate-Resilient Agriculture”
ANTOS ENVIRONMENTAL
Antos Environmental has been at the forefront of corporate environmentalism for over 30 years and is dedicated to helping organizations worldwide elevate their sustainability and resource management performance.
Working across a range of sectors, with clients large and small, from hospitals, universities, to businesses, and to municipalities, Antos helps clients take a smarter approach to waste management.
Through assessing your current performance, identifying opportunities, implementing change, education, and monitoring and measurement, Antos not only reduces your impact on the environment but in most cases saves you money too.
WHITE FLAMINGO
White Flamingo is a very cool collection of art curators, who work with organizations to find and bring art into their workplaces to activate space. Using theories from environmental psychology, color psychology, and archetypal brand theory to choose art that is right for your space, brand, and company. White Flamingo offer a variety of different installations to fit your budget and office, including art packages, workplace murals, 3D work, and gallery walls. White Flamingo curate art from emerging artists who would benefit from a platform to expose their work, and work with organizations who are trying to offer an inspiring environment to their employees.
CURATE | ACTIVATE | INSPIRE