British Printers Benefit From Energy Buying Power

The British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF) is working with energy specialists CMR Consultants to reduce members' energy costs.

The British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF) is working with energy specialists CMR Consultants to reduce members' energy costs.

The BPIF believes that the development will also help to ensure that member companies of all sizes are benefiting fully from a liberalised and competitive energy market.

Whilst very large energy users may have benefited through wielding their purchasing power and domestic consumers through government regulation and pressure, the remainder of the unprotected business market has seen fewer advantages, according to the BPIF.

Now, with the UK energy supply market tightening, the smaller business sector is falling further behind.

However, collective organisations (such as trade associations) can work together to bring the benefits of large company purchasing to the SME sector, said the BPIF.

The BPIF is setting up a print industry energy buying consortium, exclusively for its members to use collective buying power to get better energy deals, give access to energy markets for members of all sizes and proactive purchasing to exploit the opportunities of market pricing and timing.

That would mean that members would not be forced to buy energy when the price is high.

The consortium will also give access to a range of professional energy cost reduction services available from CMR such as Smart metering to identify energy reduction opportunities, as well as elimination of estimated bills and incorrect VAT and CCL assessments.

BPIF chief executive Michael Johnson urged members to join the consortium to derive maximum benefit: "The BPIF is always looking for opportunities to use its position to bring competitive advantage for its members and thereby improve the profitability of the sector.

Companies with relatively small buying power can use the opportunity that the BPIF provides to aggregate and drive even more value from their annual subscriptions.

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