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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                                     Wednesday, December 23, 2009

31 New Warehouses Strengthen The Hurst Group’s Distribution                                                                           

Lexington, Kentucky — The Hurst Group announced today they have successfully moved three (3) of their warehouses to thirty-one (31) new warehouses spread across the USA. As shareholders of Independent Stationers, a national buying cooperative, Hurst’s product will now ship from strategically placed warehouses through a new relationship with United Stationers, a five (5) billion dollar office products logistics provider.

“Our relationship with United Stationers has strengthened our supply chain efficiencies to buy and ship products at a better cost. These savings allow our local sales teams to compete more effectively in today’s price competitive marketplace”, stated Tom Gormley; Vice President of The Hurst Group.

Customers will see another big change as Hurst now will adjust their private brand of products. The popular Legacy Brand (LOP) will be phased out and replaced with a stronger more competitive brand called Universal. Hurst will continue to market Legacy (LOP) for our copy paper and Laser and Ink Jet compatible products.

Gormley continued, “The Universal product line is more extensive and competitive than our current Legacy line. The United partnership now allows us to take advantage of a stronger direct relationship with the manufacturers without middlemen markups increasing the cost.”

Although new Universal products will replace the current “LOP” as inventories are depleted, Hurst will be adopting the new Universal part numbers as of January 1, 2010. This will allow customer invoices, usage reports and pricing to maintain consistency throughout the transition. The process will be seamless for our customers, all LOP items will automatically sub to the new Universal numbers.

New enhanced Hurst Group website to be unveiled in 2010

 

Lexington, Kentucky — Beginning in early 2010 The Hurst Group will begin migrating all of our online customers to our new enhanced web platform. The new features of the platform include: A friendlier shopping experience built on the basis of state-of-the-art technology, extensive market research and substantial feedback from customers.  More intuitive search tools and faster results.  More informed purchasing decisions using improved product details, warranty information, alternate product choices, and side-by-side comparisons. Favorites is enhanced to let you create multiple lists for different rooms or events, sort into categories, specify quantities to keep on hand, add comments, and instantly add selected items or an entire list to your cart. Your invoices are online for viewing, printing, and paying conveniently via credit card. . Shopping for multiple departments or locations has been enhanced so that shoppers can add and manage multiple credit cards to streamline Checkout, and each line item can be delivered to a separate department, location or attention.

 

 

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