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We provide our customers with essential items that are necessary for their businesses to operate. We reliably source, consolidate and deliver these items through customised solutions, providing both efficiency and value-added benefits.
Bunzl offers tailored solutions that utilise varied resources and capabilities.
By providing our customers with a broad range of essential items, readily available from stock, alongside specialist knowledge and expertise, we provide the reassurance our customers need for important items, which allows them to focus on their core businesses. The value of our service to our customers goes far beyond the cost of the products sourced.
Bunzl provides a customised service that offers:
Our customised solutions add value to our customers' operations ensuring they receive their orders on-time and in-full whatever their requirements.
Within our c.24,500 employees globally we have more than 6,500 expert sales people and locally based customer service specialists use their deep and detailed knowledge to work with customers to ensure that they receive the best possible advice on all product and service related matters. Our dedicated warehouse teams ensure orders are picked to a high degree of accuracy and our drivers represent Bunzl on a daily basis as the main face-to-face contact with our customers.
With a decentralised operational structure, our enthusiastic, experienced and knowledgeable management teams, including many former business owners, are able to focus on our customers’ needs in their local markets and create an entrepreneurial environment, while retaining full responsibility for the financial performance of their businesses.
Our global scale and strength of relationships with multinational and local suppliers, together with the benefits of our Asia sourcing and auditing operation based in Shanghai, allow us to provide a broad range of responsibly sourced and competitively priced products, including an extensive range of own brand and sustainable items.
With operations in 33 countries, our extensive distribution networks mean we can deliver to customers on a local, regional, national and international basis, giving them complete flexibility.
Our e-commerce platforms increase the efficiency of our operations while enhancing the experience for our customers. These include options, such as budgetary controls, closed specific product lists and branded portals for our customers.
We have a strong track record of making and successfully integrating acquisitions, helping us to extend our geographic footprint while at the same time enabling our acquired businesses to continue to feel ‘local’. Since 2004 we have acquired more than 210 businesses.
Our businesses are highly cash generative and this, together with our disciplined approach to capital allocation, allows us to pay a growing dividend, reinvest to deliver organic growth and grow our business by acquisition.
We continue to reinvest in our operations, including in our IT systems and e-commerce applications, vehicle routing and warehouse management systems and by consolidating and upgrading our warehouse.
Applying our disciplined and controlled approach, we have been able to commit more than £5 billion of cash generated to self-funding 214 acquisitions since 2004 while maintaining a prudent approach to net debt.
Our dividend has grown every year for 31 years at a CAGR of c.10% per annum. We are committed to ensuring sustainable dividend growth in line with our progressive policy.