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gained by working for a number of unilog announces new ecommerce to place online orders for these items and
companies, including Taiga Building offering for orgill dealers conveniently pick them up at their local
Products and Tembec,” says John store.
Morrissey, TIMBER MART’s vice- “In addition to having an affordable
president of distribution and trading. online presence, Orgill dealers can also
“He brings an abundance of knowledge benefit from access to a catalog of items
to our experienced lumber-trading that have been significantly enriched,” said
team and will be Unilog CEO Suchit Bachalli. “The master
a great asset to catalog is robust with improved product
our membership. descriptions, images, complete specs and
We’re committed attributes, and more, enabling dealers to
to providing our display more useful product information
members with an for their online shoppers. Quality product
effective, national Orgill dealers who have yet to establish a information is a leading factor in attracting
lumber-trading strong eCommerce presence can now easily potential customers to your site.”
service – and get in the game, thanks to a new offering This new offering is in addition to the
Barry’s hiring is that Unilog announced in February at the Integrated eCommerce program that Unilog
a testament to Orgill Dealer Market in Orlando. launched in conjunction with Orgill at last
that.” Orgill, the world’s largest independent year’s Dealer Market in Las Vegas (August).
With Mr. hardlines distributor, and Unilog, which
McCartney’s appointment, TIMBER delivers powerful, affordable eCommerce About Orgill
MART’s lumber-trading team consists solutions and product data enrichment Orgill, Inc., the world’s largest independent
of six commodity traders located across services, are pleased to collaborate on a hardlines distributor, was founded in 1847
the country (i.e. British Columbia, the new Promotional eCommerce program, and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.
Prairies, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic which enables Orgill dealers to establish an Orgill serves more than 10,000 retail hardware
Canada). As Senior Commodity Trader, eCommerce presence quickly, and at a very stores, home centers, pro lumber dealers and
Mr. McCartney will report directly to low monthly investment. farm stores throughout the United States and
TIMBER MART’s Vice-President of This new offering builds on a partnership Canada, and in over 50 countries around the
Distribution the companies announced in August world. For more information, visit www.orgill.
where Unilog was named the preferred com
eCommerce partner for Orgill.
About TIMBER MART
Founded in 1967, TIMBER MART is “We’re very pleased to offer our About Unilog
the largest national member-owned dealer partners this new way to increase Unilog is a global technology company
buying group in Canada for the true eCommerce revenue and drive more foot that delivers powerful, affordable eCommerce
independent entrepreneur. With hundreds traffic back to their physical stores,” said solutions for the B2B marketplace. Our
of independent building-material and Orgill President Boyden Moore. “Our dealers cloud-based eCommerce platform and
hardware retailers, commercial dealers have told us how important it is to them product data enrichment services help
and manufacturers located in every to be able to compete with a meaningful distributors, manufacturers, and wholesalers
province across the country, TIMBER eCommerce solution that supports their increase online sales, reduce cost to serve,
MART provides its extensive dealer local business. We’re glad that our work with and enhance their digital channel. Unilog is
network with a menu of competitive Unilog provides another solution for our an ISO 9001:2008- and ISO 8000-certified
buying programs, comprehensive dealers to consider.” company with North American headquarters
marketing services and personalized Each month, Orgill will feature items outside of Philadelphia, PA and international
support to drive independent-business which its dealers can choose to promote on headquarters in Bangalore, India. For more
success. For more information, their eCommerce site, allowing customers information, visit www.unilogcorp.com.
visit www.timbermart.ca and www.
timbermartmember.ca.

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