Our approach
McBride is growing both organically and through acquisitions, and our suppliers are critical to help us achieve this growth. Furthermore, because purchasing costs and payment terms are so critical to our business, we could not succeed without the strong support and collaboration from our suppliers. In turn, we aim at working on a long-term basis with our suppliers to help them develop their business in a rewarding way.
Given our leading market position in household and personal care private label, we are one of the largest European buyers for several of the raw and packaging materials that we source, including surfactants, salts, polymers, enzymes, HDPE, triggers, paper packaging, etc… We also buy a broad range of Indirect services and goods across our business. Our overall spend is over £550m per annum. Our Group Purchasing organisation buys centrally out of two major locations (Belgium and UK), with Buyers having Group Purchasing responsibility for their materials. This is an opportunity for our suppliers to quickly gain access to our close to 20 plants. We aim at being a best-in-class world-wide FMCG Purchasing organisation.
We are very open to new ideas, concepts, or ways to do things better, and indeed, continuous improvement is one of our key values. Furthermore, McBride has a strong innovation capability, and we welcome any proposals from our suppliers to further strengthen this capability.
If you do not supply us yet and you are interested, we hope to welcome you in the future as a supplier to McBride.
