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industry, such as furniture, and print-
ing. In fact, further to their new cus-
tomer acquisition, those product lines
are the fastest growing product cat-
egory and accelerate their growth.
Hamster’s guiding philosophy is al-
ways to bring added value to its cus-
tomers, from cost savings to improved
productivity. Customers have been
able to continuously improve their
buying processes through Hamster’s
insights on best practices and cost
savings.
This Canadian success story remains
at the forefront of the distribution
sector through an open mind and will-
ingness to do things differently for its
customer. One of their largest custom-
ers from the financial sector asked the
team to become a one-stop-shop for
all of their own specific products in-
cluding marketing material, forms to
promotional items. This undertaking
allowed the customer to reduce the
number of suppliers and more impor-
tantly to get economy of scale and
significantly reduce their administra-
