Four Top Promotional Products Suppliers Form a One-Stop, Online Solution for Distributors and Their Clients

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Bridgeport, Conn.— Edwards Garments, Hartwell Industries Inc., Prime Line, and Toppers, LLC. have united to form a premier group of promotional products suppliers who will make their merchandise and other services available on a single Internet resource. The group, known as OneSourcePro, recently launched its “one-stop online shop” which is already enjoying heavy use by distributors.

The initial focus of the OneSourcePro group is to provide an ePSA compliant online company store product that helps distributors streamline and simplify the process of managing their sites. From its inception, the OneSourcePro group set out to establish a whole new standard in the industry for service excellence and opportunities for customers to enjoy bigger profits. Their strategy is to maximize the efficiencies and information-transfer advantages of the Internet to help companies streamline their purchasing process and fortify their marketing for corporate apparel and promotional products.

Distributors using OneSourcePro will have access to all of the following services and benefits in a single, secure environment:
(1) One-stop shopping: Distributors have access to the merchandise of top companies that cover the wide range of products that define today’s promotional products industry. With the founding four suppliers there are more than 35 product categories.
(2) Full-service solution: The complete set of services OneSourcePro offers to distributors in the promotion products industry includes technology, accounting, online buying, customer service support, fulfillment including inventory, and financing.
(3) Marketing support: This includes e-mail marketing, merchandising services and targeted advertising.

All four OneSourcePro companies have established a strong reputation in the industry by fulfilling a mission to “not just sell products, but to deliver solutions as well.” They share the single philosophy that their business is, in essence, helping their customers build business and realize greater profit. OneSourcePro was designed to uphold that philosophy by supporting customers’ sales teams and marketing efforts with more effective selling strategies and more efficient ways to manage purchasing.

The four OneSourcePro companies offer a comprehensive mix of merchandise that meets the various promotional products needs of businesses today: Edwards Garments, catering to the uniform apparel and pants market; Hartwell Industries Inc., offering sportswear, athletic wear, outerwear and corporate apparel; Prime Line, specializing in hard goods, writing instruments, electronics, clocks, and executive gifts; and Toppers, Inc., providing bags, headwear, aprons, towels, business accessories and umbrellas. Combined, the group has annual revenues of over $250 million.

More supplier members will be chosen in the near future to expand OneSourcePro’s existing product categories. Only the most respected suppliers from each product category will be included to ensure that distributors and their customers will receive the best available products and service.

The OneSourcePro online company stores will be powered by The Buttonwood Group. The Buttonwood Group Trading Group(tm) suite of products provide complete order processing, content management and configuration, demand forecasting and order tracking integration across several tiers of an organizations outsourced value network in order to provide excellent, seamless customer service, deep visibility into materials flow forecasting and real time cost control.

For more information, please visit the OneSourcePro Web site at www.OneSourcePro.com.