Buying Groups
Nationwide Buys Into Digital Services Provider RWS
The Nationwide Marketing Group has made a capital investment in its long-time digital marketing vendor Retailer Web Services (RWS).
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Nationwide Buys Its Digital Services Provider
Site on Time joins the buying group’s bandwagon.
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Queen City To Open Second New Store This Year
While national chains are closing stores, Queen City Audio Video & Appliances is busy opening them. The Charlotte, N.C.-based independent, now in its 65th...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Sets Its Agenda
While the rare solar eclipse was locally obscured by overcast skies and random drizzle, there was no shadow last week on the Nationwide Marketing...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Enhances MemberNet TV Platform
The Nationwide Marketing Group has added new features to its MemberNet TV service, which provides dealers with movie trailers, demo clips, digital signage and...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Bringing Smart Home To PrimeTime Show Floor
In its push to get its members up and running in home automation, the Nationwide Marketing Group will present a mock connected home on...
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Nationwide Kicks Off Its Largest Summer Event In History
Nationwide Marketing Group kicked of a new promotional event to help its members grab additional market share during the summer. The buying group for...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Siphoning Sears, hhgregg Shoppers With New Marketing Campaign
The Nationwide Marketing Group is stepping up its share-grab efforts with a new marketing campaign designed to snatch up stray Sears and hhgregg customers....
Buying Groups
Karl’s Mike Manthey Joins Nationwide Marketing Group
Industry veteran Mike Manthey has joined the Nationwide Marketing’s Group’s member support team. Manthey comes to the $15 billion merchandising and marketing organization for...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Concludes Spring Meeting
Nationwide Marketing Group, the buying group for independent CE, appliance, furniture and bedding dealers, capped off its biannual spring regional meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C.,...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Sees Opportunity In Wake Of Sears, hhgregg
The slow, waning drip of survival of both Sears and hhgregg was a primary topic of conversation at Nationwide Marketing Group’s Primetime convention and...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Nabs Nest Labs
The Nationwide Marketing Group is getting a major boost to its connected-home initiatives. The $15 billion marketing, merchandising and services organization has added Nest...
Blogs
A Letter From A Customer
Cohen’s Electronics & Appliance is an independent, single-showroom dealer in Montgomery, Ala. The company’s buying organization, the Nationwide East division of the Nationwide Marketing...
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Nationwide Launching New Financial Training Series
The Nationwide Marketing Group has developed a new financial training program to bring member dealers up to speed on retail payment. Dubbed “Dollars &...
Buying Groups
Nationwide East Boosting Social-Media Engagement For Dealers
Nationwide East, the 22-state chapter of the Nationwide Marketing Group, is reporting early success with its just-launched social-media program. The initiative, introduced at the buying...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Raises The Bar On Dealer Support
The $15 billion Nationwide Marketing Group unveiled a series of innovative merchandising and marketing solutions last week at its biannual PrimeTime meeting and buy...
Buying Groups
HTSN Adds Paradigm/Anthem and iPort/Sonarrary To Vendor Roster
Home Technology Specialists Nationwide (HTSN), the A/V specialty and custom integration division of the $15 billion Nationwide Marketing Group, has added two more manufacturers...
Buying Groups
Nationwide East Adds Digital Marketing Division
Nationwide East, the regional arm of Nationwide Marketing Group, announced a new digital marketing division to further support its members. The new division gives...
Buying Groups
Whirlpool To Sponsor Nationwide NeXtGen Event
The Nationwide Marketing Group’s next NeXtGen millennial gathering, to be held at the upcoming PrimeTime show in Nashville, will be sponsored by Whirlpool. NeXtGen,...
Buying Groups
Google, Facebook To Present At Nationwide PrimeTime Show
The Nationwide Marketing Group’s revamped seminar series, Nationwide Learning Academy, will feature speakers from Google and Facebook when the program returns to the semi-annual PrimeTime...
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Wynonna Judd To Play Nationwide’s PrimeTime Show
Taking full advantage of its Nashville venue, the Nationwide Marketing Group has snagged a major country star to kick off its PrimeTime meeting and...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Opens Registration For PrimeTime Summer Show
Registration has begun for the Nationwide Marketing Group’s PrimeTime gathering this summer. The $15 billion buying and marketing organization for independent dealers will return...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Caps Off Successful Regional Meeting In N.C.
Nationwide Marketing Group, the electronics and appliance buying group with more than 3,500 members, recently capped off its twice-annual regional meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C.,...
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Buying Groups Double Down On Support For Independents
There was a time, not all that long ago, when Best Buy, Walmart and the home-improvement chains seemed unstoppable, and pundits were ready to...
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Furniture Is A Key Focus At Nationwide
Despite dissension in the ranks from its former Northeast chapter (the NECO Alliance), the Nationwide Marketing Group remains the country’s largest organization for independent...
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Nationwide Expands Newspaper Circular Service
The Nationwide Marketing Group has added Banner Marketing to its growing contingent of member service providers. The company, which made its Nationwide debut last...
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Nationwide Adds Electronic Price Tags
Independent dealers can now change pricing and other shelf-label information on the fly, thanks to a new addition to the Nationwide Marketing Group’s vendor...
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Nationwide Considering VR For Furniture Sales
The Nationwide Marketing Group is looking into virtual reality as a showroom selling tool for furniture. According to member services executive VP Frank Sandtner,...
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Fun In The Florida Sun At Nationwide PrimeTime Kickoff
Shrugging off the threat of showers, the Nationwide Marketing Group held a rousing kickoff to its four-day PrimeTime convention in Orlando yesterday. On the...
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Nationwide East May Top 1,000 Members
Nationwide East, the regional chapter of the Nationwide Marketing Group, reported “another year of tremendous growth in 2015,” and anticipates breaking the thousand-member threshold...
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Nationwide Stresses Localized Support On Eve Of PrimeTime Show
Ten days out from its spring PrimeTime show, the Nationwide Marketing Group is reminding independent dealers of the localized support it delivers despite its...
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Nationwide’s ‘Prepare For Share’ Prepares For Growth
The Nationwide Marketing Group is planning new things for its “Prepare for Share” (PFS) program, and the group said members can receive exclusive deals...
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LG To Sponsor Millennial Meet At Nationwide Show
The younger tech-set will be raising a glass to LG Electronics next month when the Nationwide Marketing Group’s PrimeTime show rolls into Orlando. That’s...
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ProSource Looks North As Nationwide Heads South
In the latest doings from the buying group front, ProSource has allied with a neighbor to the north while the Nationwide Marketing Group prepares...
Distributors
Satellite Distributor DSI Selling CE Division To O’Rourke Sales
O’Rourke Sales Company (OSC), a family-owned CE and mobile distributor, has agreed to acquire DSI Systems, a leading CE, appliance, furniture, and bedding distributor...
Buying Groups
NECO Splitting From Nationwide
The NECO Alliance, one of the country’s largest appliance buying co-ops, is leaving the Nationwide Marketing Group after almost two decades as its Northeast...
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Nationwide’s New Tech Group Forms Advisory Board
Home Technology Specialists Nationwide (HTSN), the CE/CI specialty group formed by the Nationwide Marketing Group and Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA), has formed...
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Members Only: Nationwide Holds How-To Summit For Dealers
It was back to school for members of the Nationwide Marketing Group who attended the buying organization’s recent Answers summit. The three-day event, held...
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Nationwide Takes Share As New Leadership Takes Control
Las Vegas – The Nationwide Marketing Group opened its summer PrimeTime event here yesterday by marking its leadership transition and reporting that its “Prepare...
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Nationwide Transitions Management Team
Winston-Salem, N.C. — The Nationwide Marketing Group’s first-generation management team has formally handed off the reins to its second-gen successors. Robert Weisner, who helped...
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Nationwide Urges Dealers To Get What’s Theirs
Winston-Salem, N.C. – The Nationwide Marketing Group is beating the market share drum. Again. Actually, the $15 billion support organization for independent dealers never...
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Nationwide Gathers Field Team; GE Sponsors PrimeTime Event
Atlanta – Even trainers need training, which is why the field representatives and support staff of the Nationwide Marketing Group gathered here for their...