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Opportunities for Irish food and drink suppliers

Access Hospitality currently has over 2,000 customers on the island of
Ireland covering Hotels, Restaurants, Bars, Garden Centres and Nursing
Homes including:

Dalata, MHL Collection, Winward Purchasing, Mercantile Group and Cliste
Hospitality. The system also works well for smaller groups and independent
establishments. There are currently 1,900 full system suppliers.

Purchasing policy and supplier requirements

For Procure Wizard, a full system supplier manages their own data on
the system for their specific customers, this include pricing and invoice
reconciliation. Producers must firstly establish a relationship with the
foodservice operators or distributors they wish to supply. Foodservice
operators and distributors then contact Access Hospitality to let them
know that they wish to purchase from a specific producer.

Access will in turn contact the relevant producer and upload them to the
system. Once producers have their products and prices set up on system,
they can have visibility of all existing customers using Access Procure
Wizard. Access Hospitality software are all Cloud based systems.
There is a small admin charge for suppliers to be put up on the system, this
ranges from €75 to €150.

Distribution providers

Key Distribution Suppliers include Musgrave MarketPlace, Sysco Ireland,
Lynas Foodservice, BWG Foodservice and Henderson’s. Refer to the website
for a full list of suppliers. www.theaccessgroup.com

Advice to new suppliers

Be aware that a growing number of foodservice operators are placing
orders electronically as they move away from more traditional ordering
methods.

Other information

Payments are still made directly from the foodservice operator to the
distributor or producer. Procure Wizard is just the portal to manage the
relationship between customer / supplier, it is not a Purchasing Group.

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