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Cost Containment Specialists Joins Business Growth Alliance, LLC (BGA)

Sewickley, PA, and Dayton, OH. Business Growth Alliance, LLC (BGA) is pleased to announce that Cost Containment Specialists (CCS), an affiliate of Alliance Cost Containment, a leading expense reduction services firm, has joined BGA’s growing network of Affiliates.

CCS, founded in 1998 in Dayton, OH, specializes in cost reduction, group purchasing and vendor management for middle market companies. CCS’s purchasing aggregation and vendor management processes have generated cost reduction and process efficiencies for more than 1000 businesses in the $10 million-to-$500 million revenue range...Read More>

Quicker, Better, Wiser - Improve Your Purchasing Process-Now
By Gene Marks, Reprinted from May 20, 2008

Small-business owners overpay for lots of stuff. Healthy economies mask those mistakes; recessions aggravate them like old wounds.

Why do we overpay? The real reason (though most of us won’t admit it): “Many business owners are resistant to changing the purchasing process,” says Gary Friedman, president of Cost Containment Specialists, based in Dayton, Ohio. “People say, ‘I’m too busy right now.’ It’s really up to the business owner to determine how committed he or she is to maximizing profits.”...Read More>