Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Leading Edge Group

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

Leading Edge Group is an Australian-owned consumer electronics buying group with retail shopfronts. It began in 1986 as Electronic Enterprises and has continued to evolve and adapt over the four successive decades with a few enduring, underlying principles at the core of all decisioning.

Quick Facts Company type, Industry ...

The Leading Edge Group empowers and supports small businesses to thrive and survive.

Supplier relationships are built on foundation and mutual respect. Suppliers receive the benefits of a single point of contact and a single payment point for consolidated invoicing. They access a broad base of regional and remote small business without incurring the hard costs in time and money associated with physical visits and a rep force.

Retail relationships that matter are built on understanding and engineering commercial advantage. The power of the collective allows the historic underdogs to compete, to access products they wouldn't ordinarily be able to. And to flourish. The team of dedicated category leaders inspire and delight across a range of diverse industries such as Technolgy (encompassing Computers, Appliances and Electronics), Entertainment, Books and Jewellery. They see the future that others miss. And they prepare retailers for it.

Leading Edge Business Solutions is a logical extension of the core proposition behind the Leading Edge Group. It is a B2B proposition built to support business accessing goods and services to support their operations and to add to efficiencies and ultimately bottom-line profitability. An in-house procurement team is no longer necessary when businesses can access their needs for Audio Visual and IT Products via the vast Leading Edge network of suppliers. Supporting this endeavour is a suite of Services and Solutions that continue to evolve and become increasingly important in the fast-moving digital environment. Hardware is increasingly linked to software and the mechanisms to support the installation and ongoing management and maintenance of networks of connected devices. Building adaptability and resilience is essential. But so is connectivity and connection. Leading Edge Group understands the problems and collaborate with clients to offer solutions to them that best suit their needs and budgets.

Remove ads

History

In 1997, a range of buying groups consolidated under the brand name of the Leading Edge Group, making it one of the largest retail entities in Australia.[citation needed] Leading Edge Group is a global organisation operating in two major sectors; buying group management and sales channel management across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.[citation needed]

In December 2023, Leading Edge Retail promoted Charlie Davey to CEO of its Australian operation following the resignation of Lee Scott.[1]

Remove ads

Leading Edge Group New Zealand

Leading Edge Group New Zealand was a sales and marketing channel management company. They had previously partnered with large corporates such as Genesis, The Yellow Group and Spark, offering sales and marketing services to SME's across an array of productised services. Leading Edge Group entered the New Zealand market by acquiring 15 retail and business outlets and became the largest independent channel partner for Spark New Zealand. As part of the Global Leading Edge Group, they provided mobility, landline, broadband and ICT related products and services. Leading Edge Group also worked on the sales and support channel role for n3.[citation needed]

Remove ads

Leading Edge Group Electronics

Leading Edge Group Electronics is a buying group of around 48 former Dick Smith Electronics (DSE) stores. These privately owned resellers changed suppliers in a major move against Australian electronics giant DSE in October 2004 after the resellers were informed that their contracts would not be renewed and in many instances that a DSE company owned store would be opening in the town in competition with them.[2][3][4]

Leading Edge Group UK

In the UK, Leading Edge Group operates as an outsourced sales team for BT, providing sales management and execution in the B2B marketplace across 9% of the UK.[citation needed]

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads