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Racking up the savings

Purchasing packaging materials online saves time, space and headaches for manufacturer of racks and storage systems.

The brothers Groves: Savvy surfers Hank (left) and John save time ordering packaging online.
The brothers Groves: Savvy surfers Hank (left) and John save time ordering packaging online.

In the world of small business, time and inventory space occupied by packaging materials mean big money—something to which John Groves, vice president and national sales manager of McHenry, IL-based Groves Inc., can attest. So when Groves encountered PackagingPrice.com (www.packagingprice.com), a Web-based packaging distributor specializing in low-priced stock packaging, Groves decided to check it out.

In addition to the corrugated boxes that his company—a manufacturer of storage systems for the fire and safety industry—needed, Groves also found stretch wrap and tape on the site. “For the most part, prices are comparable to what I can find in a catalog somewhere else, sometimes a little less,” he says.

Low minimums

But Groves found that low prices weren’t the only benefit of using an online sourcing site. “I can order smaller quantities more often and not have to wait long periods of time to get my materials,” he says.

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