purchasing cooperative

purchasing cooperative,

n a group of dental professionals pooling their financial resources to purchase large quantities of supplies and equipment for the purpose of obtaining a discount.

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The transfer tractor and transfer trailer, like the truck bodies, were purchased through the Texas Local Government Purchasing Cooperative.

Sherman, TX spends $800,000 to replace solid waste department vehicles

There are significant opportunities for a franchise system that invests in a purchasing cooperative.

Purchasing cooperatives: opportunities and challenges: purchasing cooperatives present significant benefits to their owners and to the franchise systems that are fortunate to benefit from the expertise and quality goods and services they can provide

Though collective buying of goods and services is at the core of every purchasing cooperative, today's member-owners want--and need--more to succeed.

Consider purchasing Co-Ops to gain an edge

Auburn is one of about two dozen school systems in Central Massachusetts that uses the Oxford-based French River Education Center purchasing cooperative to buy oil to heat its buildings.

Oil price drop saving money for schools

Vance Publishing (Lincolnshire, IL) has joined the Integrated Media Cooperative (IMC; Chicago, IL), a purchasing cooperative for small and medium size publishers, becoming the group's 11th member.

Vance Publishing (Lincolnshire, IL) has joined the Integrated Media Cooperative (IMC; Chicago, IL), a purchasing cooperative for small and medium size publishers, becoming the group's 11th member

The Environmental Paper Summit's steering committee included Conservatree, the Center for a New American Dream, Co-op America, Dogwood Alliance, Environmental Defense, Forest Ethics, the Green Press Initiative, Markets Initiative, Natural Resources Defense Council and the Recycled Products Purchasing Cooperative.

The paper chase: the paperless office is still a distant dream. In the interim, we should be recycling more and developing alternatives to wood-based paper

Frosty Acres), the national independent foodservice marketing and purchasing cooperative.

Watson takes helm at Frosty Acres. (People)

The San Diego-based Recycled Products Purchasing Cooperative (RPPC) is slowly expanding the recycled paper market through group purchases that pass volume discounts on to RPPC members.

Choose to Re-Use

and Tricon's KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell franchisees will form a unified purchasing cooperative for restaurant products and equipment in the United States.

Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc

Step One: South Dakota would enact a statute similar to an existing Iowa statute that would invite the establishment of both accountable health plan projects and health purchasing cooperative projects.

"The Community-Based Health Care Model: a potential silver lining for South Dakota."

The Cooperative Purchasing Network (TCPN) is a national governmental purchasing cooperative that competitively bids and awards contracts to national vendors for commonly purchased products and services allowing such entities to make compliant purchases at a valued rate.

The Cooperative Purchasing Network is Now in New York

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