At the 2009 Telstra National Dealer Conference at the Royal Pines, We are pleased to announce that Leading Edge Telecoms won the Business Systems Channel Partner of the Year award.

We were also recognised as one of Telstra’s premier sales channels and leading partner. Leading Edge Telecoms were the most nominated of all Telstra’s dealers at their Gala Awards night on Tuesday 25 August 2009 with recognition in the Retailer of the Year, Business Partner of the Year, Business Systems Partner of the Year and the Pinnacle Partner (the new name for National Dealer) of the Year categories. This is an excellent achievement for our brand considering that 3 years ago we were not active at all in this category and 2 years ago we had launched albeit fledglingly our sales activities in this space. Today we are a major player in the sale of PABX phone systems and our growth in this category should continue to be high for a number of years to come as more LET members take up the category and our own B2B team here at Gordon provide these great products to customers.

Leading Edge Digital, a division of Leading Edge Group with over 1,300 independent retailers throughout Australasia has opened its first wholly owned Kodak Express Digital store on Sydney’s Northern Beaches in a Stockland centre.

Michael Carr, General Manager of Leading Edge Digital, comments that the reason for opening a wholly owned store was so that Leading Edge Digital and its support team could absorb itself in the photographic business and gain “hands on” experience in the day to day operation of such a store and the consumer interface. Thus leading to an intimate knowledge of the market to better service customers. This store provides a full range of photographic services unsurpassed by any other local photographic outlet and hence of major benefit to local customers.

This store becomes part of over 120 Kodak Express Digital stores for whom, in partnership with Kodak, Leading Edge Digital provides Marketing services with ongoing promotion, inclusive of regular consumer catalogues, in store promotions and point of sale.

More specifically, over 50 Kodak Express Digital stores have elected to become full members of Leading Edge Digital which entitles them to a wide range of retail support services which would otherwise not be available to them as small independent retailers.

For a very modest monthly investment, members obtain significant benefits by becoming part of a ‘family’ of like minded retailers with the strength and ability to combat the majors in an ever increasingly competitive Australian market, supported by a knowledgeable and enthusiastic team.

Major benefits are the facility to buy at bulk rates, the ability to deal with just one creditor in terms of payment for merchandise and attendance at an annual Conference to view the latest product, talk to suppliers and benefit from others’ experience.

Plus there is a fully maintained website, exclusively for members, to catch up on the latest industry news, upcoming offers and to share the experience of others.

Other benefits include discounts on EFPTOS rates, business insurance, fixtures and fittings, vehicle fleet discounts and many more.

For further information about the exciting possibilities available to members of Leading Edge Digital, please contact Michael Carr on 02 9497 4057 or carrm@leadingedgegroup.com.au

After the overwhelming success of the Leading Edge Concept stores across the country, Leading Edge Group Ltd have opened a second company store in Balgowlah, Sydney NSW.

We are so proud of our latest concept store as it incorporates the best our industry has to offer in modern jewellery retailing.  The new model allows for full flexibility with displaying branded jewellery in an attractive manner that ties in perfectly with a traditional jewellery store layout allowing us to capture the best of jewellery retail.

This design allows numerous areas of quickly customizable displays that are attractive for the customer to look at as well as being easy to retail from for our staff.

Leading Edge Group Ltd has injected a huge amount of resources into staying at the forefront of our industry and is developing a true replicable model that only strengthens all members in our buying group.   This is achieved by offering assistance to the membership in all or parts of our model to help them with what is truly important on a day to day basis.  Some examples include, a new staff training regime, a new operational support package, store sales budget templates and much more.

We are experiencing great momentum at present with interest in joining our buying group and we offer some key factors not found elsewhere in the industry, with no associated costs.  Our point of difference in the industry is that we are focusing on best practice retailing principles at an individual store level and passing this onto our members in full.  We have a dynamic management team with a true retail background and we have the support of the Leading Edge Group Ltd buying group as a whole which has over 1500 stores in its entirety. 

We have just cracked the surface of our true buying group offer and we look forward to a very bright future for all concerned.