Central Warehouse

Private Label

Financial Services

Assortments

Cooperations

Networking

Marketing Services

Sales Concepts

Benefits & Service

EDE International offers a wide range of service modules together with its mother company in Wuppertal. The clear aim is to increase the performance and competitiveness of our international members in their core business and in the effective marketing of their goods and services. As an owner-managed family business, we invest specifically and sustainably in services that help to make our members fit for the future.

The service modules are available to all our members in our home market Germany and to members in most European countries (and beyond). We offer support to safeguard and further develop their businesses. From the entire range of services, we also offer sector-specific solutions that meet the needs and requirements of the respective markets for industry and trade.

For members and suppliers planning to internationalise their business, this results in a real competitive advantage: EDE International provides direct access to Europe’s most important B2B markets.

Financial Services

Cooperations

Central Warehouse

Networking

Sales Concepts

Marketing Services

Assortments

Private Label

Your Benefits

  • Market proximity through EDE representatives in the most important markets

  • Cooperation with the most important and largest European marketing and buying groups

  • Country-specific growth concepts

  • Successful international sales concepts and product ranges

  • Exclusive private label in different product ranges

  • End customer delivery within 24-72 hours throughout Europe from our eLc

  • Marketing support, including catalogues in nine languages

  • Financial services (with the support of our own sister company, ETRIS Bank) such as centralized payment, chain transactions, factoring and much more.

Sales concepts

The EDE sales concepts strengthen your regional and industry-specific performance

Every market and industry have its own laws. That is why EDE offers its members industry-leading sales concepts in which our sales and marketing specialists work closely with you to develop and implement solutions tailored to your industry or even new, specific services from all EDE service modules. In this way, our sales concepts help to secure and expand your industry-specific and regional marketing success.

Central Warehouse

Reduce warehousing costs and serve customers better: Our eLC central warehouse enables both

Our specialised medium-sized members not only want to buy at the best conditions and generate sales with brands and assortments, but also feel the pressure on the cost side. At the same time, customers demand that the goods they order be delivered as quickly as possible and to the most diverse locations all over Europe. As the clear number one in B2B, we are therefore constantly improving the supply chain for our members. Our goals are to reduce your warehousing and logistics costs and to provide the best possible service for your customers. At the heart of this is our electronic logistics center eLC in Wuppertal, with access to over 500,000 articles and over 330 million euros in warehouse turnover per year. With over 73,000 square meters of warehouse space, more than 110,000 articles are immediately available with 98 percent delivery readiness. Continuous expansion will further increase capacities here – to over 150,000 articles. We send up to 10,000 parcels a day from our eLC logistics center to more than 30 European countries, resulting in around 1.6 million parcels a year. We deliver to your warehouse within 24 hours or directly to the end customer (48-72 hours to Europe). Single-item picking, two-man delivery and last-minute ordering are examples of many other strong logistics services. Our second warehouse for sanitary and heating products offers access to 120,000 items, 5000 of which are directly in stock – we even ship ceramic goods by parcel delivery. The hazardous goods warehouse with 6000 pallet spaces and the automatic small parts warehouse, which processes up to 1500 order items per hour, round off the strong logistics offering. In this way, we make a significant contribution to reducing your process and storage costs and to the satisfaction of your customers. Reliability and availability guaranteed. Any questions or queries regarding products, time of delivery, availability, transport, orders or claims? Our competent multi-cultural colleagues in the European Service Centre know the answers. Quick and reliable and in many European languages.

Private lables

Make yourself unmistakable in the market – with our successful private labels

With over 30 years of experience, EDE offers exclusive and high-turnover private labels with which you can distinguish yourself in the market and retain your customers. Our private labels are an essential element of our sales concepts. They offer our members the possibility to offer competitive assortments at an attractive price-performance ratio and to generate direct brand advantages. The quality of our private labels is so convincing that customers like to come back – again and again!

Assortments

Inspire your customers with B2B assortments that are second to none

EDE covers all B2B-relevant product ranges: Tools, machine tools, factory equipment, welding technology, fittings, fastening technology, construction equipment, construction elements, PPE, technical trade, steel and building services. Complementary assortments from the areas of electrical and office supplies as well as electronics and packaging can also be handled by the EDE systems and made available to your customers for procurement. The fact that we have more than 1,750,000 products from around 3,200 contract suppliers available – more than any other B2B network – means that you can obtain all the leading manufacturer brands and product ranges that are in high demand from us. This strengthens your position in the market and with your customers.

Financial services

More entrepreneurial freedom with the custom-tailored financial services from our sister company ETRIS BANK
ETRIS BANK understands the requirements of medium-sized companies like no other. In addition to international central payment EDE has established in many European countries, ETRIS provides further financial services to safeguard your entrepreneurial room for maneuver. Thus factoring is the ideal way to hedge the liquidity and risk of companies. In Germany and abroad, ETRIS BANK offers factoring, balance sheet analyses, succession consulting or the financing of expansion measures. As an entrepreneurial bank with a full banking license and a wholly owned EDE subsidiary, ETRIS BANK offers maximum security. Our highly efficient, digital banking processes not only offer fast and convenient processing, but also provide a valuable information advantage: about your market, about opportunities it offers you – and thus and thus about the future of your business. ETRIS BANK is an accredited partner of the NRW.Bank.

Marketing services

Market your range of goods with our customised online and digital catalogues and brochures
With EDE’s customised and individualised catalogues, you can market your range in a clear and targeted way. Our catalogues are industry-leading and not one-size-fits-all. We produce over one million catalogues a year in the most important European. Via OXOMI, the online catalogue portal available around the clock, you can access all catalogues of your own and leading suppliers for information purposes or present them to your customers at any time and on the move in many different languages. Our own EDE data- and catalogue specialist team supports you with our experience and know-how for your successful marketing with your customers.

Cooperations

“Cooperation of cooperations” strengthens the market position of all members

EDE strengthens and promotes cooperation based on the firm conviction that we can be even more efficient together. Since many years, cooperation at EDE takes place on many levels. In all relevant B2B goods and assortment areas as well as on an international level. Each cooperation aims to offer existing services more cost-effectively, to expand service offerings and to offer additional services for the benefit of our members and their customers and our European suppliers.

Networking

Exchange ideas about the whole world of European B2B – at our unique industry events and networking platforms
Partnership, networking and exchange of experience have always been part of the EDE’s DNA. Our members and suppliers benefit from the continuous dialogue as well as the intensive cooperation between specialised trade, industry and the EDE’s industry professionals in professional sales groups and committees. This means that all relevant market and product range information is always available and up-to-date. All this takes place on platforms such as the Branchentreff total, the EDE inhouse fair, the EDE marketplaces in different counties, supplier fairs, and the EDE competence groups – all of which are the largest networking and communication platforms of their kind in the B2B sector.

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