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“We needed an all-in-one solution in our lighting
                                      department and GRIP ON made it easy for us to fine-
                                      tune our campaign without having to dedicate a full-
                                      time marketing staff to it.”
                                                          LED Lighting Buyer, Princess Auto













                                                            They’re  a  single  source  vendor  with  new  and
                                                            innovative  LED  work  lights  and  flashlights,
                                                            patented  products,  fair  prices,  better  margins,
                                                            great  display  racks,  superior  marketing  and
      Finding a Great Vendor
                                                            customer support as well as a staff that cares.
       & Great Partner                                      We’ve had increased traffic in our stores, which we
                                                            can  directly  relate  to  a  line  of  GRIP  flashlights.

      Unfortunately it’s not always easy to find a vendor   One of the most cost-effective results of working
      with such a stellar grab-bag of traits. So, when we   with  GRIP  has  been  a  reduction  in  other  vendor
      found GRIP ON TOOLS, we soon realized that we         costs we had previously incurred.  The number at
      had found a vendor that would be our partner to       the bottom line of the invoice is only the beginning
      help us accomplish our sales and marketing goals      of the cost of dealing with certain suppliers. With
      and build a successful business. Prior to that we     GRIP,  many  problems  have  all  but  disappeared
      had  issues  with  too  many  vendors  that  sold  us   because they solved many of our cost issues and
      products  that  weren’t  in  demand,  that  weren’t   saved  us  a  tremendous  amount  of  money  in  the
      priced  right,  or  had  low  margins  -  and  most  of   process of doing business with them.
      these vendors didn’t offer POP                        GRIP  is  a  great  company  to  work  with  and  we
      displays or any marketing support.                    consider ourselves very lucky to have found them
      With GRIP,  we’ve  had actual,                        servicing our market.  GRIP offers us a wide variety
      measureable results. Before we                        of desirable items and ultimately, they’ve given us
      developed a relationship with them,                   the most convenience,
      for example, our LED products                         customer service, cost
      weren’t very good sellers. After                      savings and education
      6 months with GRIP, we                                we’ve had from any of
      increased our sales in this category                  our product vendors.
      by  over  300%  with  overall  profit  margins
      significantly higher.  With GRIP, we solved many of
      our  biggest  challenges  because  they  brought  us
      workable solutions.
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