Mouldshop.com - potentially the most innovative service or product to be offered to the plastics industry since Bakelite. Imagine a well-stocked, internet-based virtual supermarket, offering a huge diversity of high-quality, branded commodity goods at highly competitive prices. The latest, cutting-edge products, provided by commerce\'s most dynamic medium, backed with a traditional approach to customer service.

Our unique service is launched as most of us are thinking about the Christmas period, and the laborious shopping associated therewith. Consider this. Last Christmas, the average shopper in the UK and Ireland travelled to their local town centre five times intent on completing this annual chore. After arriving, in excess of 15 hours was spent in the vain search for presents we hoped would be gratefully received. During this jostled fifteen hours, 20 miles was walked, and we spent two hours queuing for the privilege of paying for our gifts.

Sounds inefficient doesn\'t it? Well, think about the way we procure consumable items in our sector - the plastics industry. We meet sales people. Receive brochures and manuals. After finding the desired item, we telephone for price and availability. Sometimes, we then call for a competitive price. Is a Purchase Requisition then written? Quite often. This gets passed to accounts, or our superior for sanctioning. Does this result in incorrect parts being ordered, by specification or quantity? Is there a delay? How many suppliers do we have? Have we a credit accounts? Are we making the best of our purchasing power by centralising buying?

So, what can we provide as an alternative? Pretty much every consumable product required by the plastics processor available through the common, familiar interface of our web browser. Heaterbands, hosing, screw tips, mould sprays, hand tools, cleanroom clothing - the list is endless. The one common theme is quality of product - great prices don\'t have to equate to cheap quality. That\'s why we work with such suppliers as Kimberley-Clark, Loctite, Rocol, Bollé, 3M, Klüber/Lusin, Kemet, Dunlop and over 140 more world leading suppliers. The Internet gives the user convenience, and \'24-7\' accessibility; their proven name gives you the confidence to buy assured of satisfaction.

Many of the items you procure on a daily basis are difficult to find in those bulky, quickly out-of-date manuals, weighing down every engineers\' shelves - water fittings for example. Enter a few key features of the specification you require, use our fast search facility, and you\'re straight there. Add the items to your basket, then search again, or check out. You can even save your basket to add to later, or invite a colleague to add to the basket. Other individuals can check out with their colleagues\' baskets - no purchase requisitions to raise, no chance of information being lost, or misinterpreted. Less time meeting with pushy sales personnel, equates to better productivity for all - from engineers, to buyers to corporate management.

Everyone knows the benefits of buying on-line, that\'s why one-in-three British shoppers buy on-line more than twice per week. Moreover, in excess of 40% of us are already buying from the Internet from our workplaces. Buying trends are not changing - they have already changed! Mouldshop.com gives the plastics sector the procurement vehicle it demands today, and into a profitable future.

How about going home or visiting a customer or supplier, then remembering you\'ve forgotten to order an important item? No problem. You\'re not alone. Statistics show that the British are Europe\'s most forgetful internet shoppers - one in five British go on-line in order to make a purchase before it slips their mind. Simply log on from any PC, enter the details relating to your mouldshop.com account, and continue to order in the same, familiar fashion.

Interesting national Internet traits? The Irish are the most prevalent users of the Internet for procurement - one in ten go on-line more than 20 times per month. That\'s twice the European average. Another somewhat predictable nationalistic trait is that Germans are the most efficient shoppers. Half our German friends go online knowing exactly what they want and buy just that.

Another example of the mouldshop.com advantage? OK. Another scenario, let\'s examine budget control. You are away on a business trip, but wish for those in your department to show purchasing restraint in your absence. Simply request they identify items they need into a saved basket; then this can be reviewed off-site, before check-out takes place. Check-Out can then be completed by yourself off-site, or another authorised individual within your organisation - in the Accounts Department for example.

So, who\'s going to use this service? We\'ve already learnt that over 40% of us buy on-line in the workplace today, so will our market be the young, university graduate? Well, yes, and no. Statistics prove that the \'silver surfer\' - the mature Internet user - outnumber the young generation when it comes to internet-based purchases. Internet purchases from the over 50\'s account for 13% of the market, whereas the under 24\'s generation 11% of the market.

As well as technical data sheets, price and availability being shown on-line, the mouldshop.com user also has the option of having our database search for associated products. Hence, when purchasing a water fitting, how about requesting the database select the appropriate hosing and jubilee clip? The advantages are two fold. Number one; those inexpensive minor items, so often the cause of embarrassing, costly delays should not get overlooked. Number two; our extensive database ensures only compatible items are shown - no more incompatible parts arriving, necessitating goods return notes, credit notes and even more lost time.

We can take orders, and baskets can be created 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year. Our delivery policy is then to provide 90% of the thousands of products we sell within 3 days. Your order confirmation is issued immediately, via E-mail or fax. On-line order tracking from your unique issued consignment number is an option available to all Privilege Card holders.

Upon delivery at your premises, delivery confirmation can then be sent to a designated person via E-mail or even SMS message. Any questions ? Call our help lines, open until midnight, 7-days per week, on our national rate number of 07004 700 700.

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