Sugro UK

Sugro is one of the UK’s largest food and beverage wholesale buying groups, with more than 90 members that span across the entire nation.

Sugro UK is a buying and marketing group with decades of experience. They’re run as a co-operative for more than 90 food and drink wholesalers across Britain. They specialise in confectionery, soft drinks, grocery, crisps and snacks, but have diversified in recent years to offer even more to the 16,000 retail stores which our members service.

As a buying group, their relationship with b2b.store means they’re committed to helping their members become more digitally savvy and take full advantage of the opportunities in the online space. They work closely with b2b.store to help them do that. Yu;lia Petitt says “b2b.store is the perfect partner because they are B2B specialists and are ingrained in the wholesale sector, so understand the nuances and challenges our members face.”

Sugro UK agreed to recommend b2b.store’s B2B eCommerce module as their preferred solution to their members and worked closely with the team to monitor performance and share best practice. Since then Sugro UK have taken on B2B WhatsApp, B2B Open Banking and offer split testing too.

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Sugro’s success with b2b.store

members using B2B eCommerce

best group-wide monthly revenue with B2B eCommerce

increase in year-on-year transactions at start of 2023

“b2b.store is the perfect partner because they are B2B specialists and are ingrained in the wholesale sector, so understand the nuances and challenges our members face”

YULIA PETITT
Head of Commercial Marketing, Sugro UK

Sugro UK and their relationship with B2B Store

Why is B2B eCommerce the best solution to offer your membership?

It’s tailored for online B2B ordering and offers all the functions you’d expect, such as a clear layout of categories and custom lists to help repeat ordering, but is also a realistic price for wholesalers working on tight margins to adopt. B2B eCommerce isn’t one size fits all and wholesalers can use it in whichever way they see fit, but the addition of digital advertising and split testing to refine different variables make it a powerful tool if used to its full potential.

What has member uptake been like?

Several of our members have introduced B2B eCommerce, with two real stand-out examples, The Soft Drinks Company and R&I Jones, with both wholesalers processing tens of thousands of orders since first launching in 2021 – and their year-on-year revenues are still increasing every month, which shows how the service continues to establish itself over time to become a significant share of a wholesaler’s business.

What is your role your role as a buying group in terms of digital?

As well as working with b2b.store and our members to explore new opportunities and analyse recent figures, we agree activity with suppliers that will benefit the entire membership. That includes providing group-wide digital advertising to appear on all Sugro members’ eCommerce platforms and running split tests on any number of different variables to discover which artwork, product description or call to action has the biggest impact on sales.