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Tradavo Partners with BuyEfficient

Simplifying Hotel Pantry and Gift Shop Supply for 1200 Hotels


December 3, 2012 Lakewood, CO: The recent partnership of Tradavo and BuyEfficient (“B.E.”) has been made official – creating a more streamlined and consolidated ordering process for supplying the hotel pantry. For Tradavo, the partnership gains them access to more than 1,200 B.E. Member hotels. On the hotel side, supplying the hotel pantry with snacks, beverages, sundries, and frozen foods has been greatly simplified. Previously, most hotels did not have a preferred supplier program for retail items and were forced to shop at Costco or source pantry and retail product through other suppliers. B.E. Members now have the convenience of Tradavo’s online ordering platform combined with all the preferred pricing, rebates and purchasing efficiencies realized through BuyEfficient’s Complete Online Purchasing Solution.

The new partnership provides more than just an improved procurement program – it provides hotels access to Tradavo’s hotel retail expertise and services hoteliers’ need to optimize their hotel retail revenue. To date over 1,000 select service, extended stay, and full service pantries have undergone the Market Makeover retail optimization offered by Tradavo, experiencing average revenue and profitability increases of 25%.

“For B.E., this partnership goes beyond providing our Members with the opportunity to source the right products for their retail outlets at a competitive price point. Just as importantly, Tradavo is providing them a comprehensive plan for creatively marketing these retail products to their customers,” states Lisanne Bogle, B.E.’s VP of Strategic Contracting.  Optimizing revenue for front-of-house marketing will no longer be an issue with the addition of Tradavo’s turnkey planograms designed to help B.E. Member hotels maximize their pantry sales per occupied room. “Both Tradavo’s products and services give our Members access to a first class retail program for virtually everything they need,” says Bogle.

Tradavo’s VP Sales and Marketing Janine Roberts touches on the benefits to both parties – “This integration is an absolute win-win for both Tradavo and BuyEfficient customers. We’ll continue to deliver new ways to improve retail performance using technology to simplify every aspect of supplying and managing hotel pantries and gift shops, and BuyEfficient’s proven purchasing solution helps us to accomplish that goal.”

About Tradavo
Tradavo is a nationwide supplier of hotel pantries and gift shops. With over 12,000 products available online, Tradavo provides a one-stop online shopping experience that delivers snacks, beverages, quick meals, ice cream, sundries, and electronics to over 4,000 hotels. Their Retail Services offering assists brands, management companies, and individual properties in selecting the correct assortment, merchandising, and pricing to maximize profitability and increase guest satisfaction. Tradavo is the preferred supplier for Marriott International, La Quinta Inns & Suites, Best Western, Interstate Hotels and Resorts and over 100 hospitality owner/operator groups. In 2011, they were recognized as one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies in the US.

For more information on Tradavo and its affiliates, visit Tradavo.com.

About Buy Efficient
BuyEfficient is the hospitality industry’s leading Complete Online Purchasing Solution, servicing over 1,200 hotel properties representing more than 25 leading hotel brands and independent hotels throughout the United States and Canada.  B.E. enables users to control costs and improve operational efficiencies through an easy-to-use web-based purchasing system. B.E. has developed long-standing supplier partnerships with leading industry distributors and manufacturers to meet the diverse F&B and OS&E sourcing needs of their Members.

 
Contact:

Tradavo

Company Contact
Janine Roberts
[email protected]
 
Media Contact
Nate Sirotta
[email protected]
818-384-4812

BuyEfficient

Rich Warren
[email protected]
301-530-1881


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