Press Room
For Immediate Release
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 networks 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.
Like other BGA Member Firms, CCS’s team of highly
qualified professionals works closely with owners, CEOs,
CFOs and other senior level Executives of middle market
companies.
Gary Friedman, President of CCS said “CCS is
delighted to be part of BGA, which is a unique and powerful
group in the middle market. We look forward to having
the opportunity to provide cost containment
services to clients served by BGA’s Affiliates.”
ACC has appointed Mr. Friedman as the Internal Program
Manager.
BGA, founded in 2005, is an expanding national alliance
of growth advisory and investment banking firms dedicated
to providing services to controlling owners of family-owned
and middle market businesses. BGA has assembled a strategic
mix of market leading firms, which share back office
data platforms and research and business performance
analytical tools.
BGA is comprised of ten Affiliate Member Firms aggregating
a professional team, which by year end 2008 should number
roughly 200 professionals.
Manning J. O’Connor II, Executive Director of
Business Growth Alliance, LLC said, “BGA is very
fortunate to have another industry-leading Affiliate
Member, with a stellar reputation like Cost Containment
Specialists, join the network of BGA Affiliates.”
Mr. O’Connor added, “CCS’s professionals
bring valuable sourcing and procurement experience to
the clients of BGA member firms.”
“The addition of Cost Containment Specialists
continues to expand BGA’s national footprint.
ACC has coverage in many of the key cities throughout
the U.S., which are included in BGA’s plans to
be a national service provider to middle market companies.
BGA’s presence throughout the U.S. will help better
meet the needs of our national and international clients
and strategic marketing partners,” said Francois
M. de Visscher, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of BGA.
“The addition of Alliance Cost Containment as
a member of BGA, in conjunction with Tenzing Consulting
and US China Business Solutions, which were two of the
founding members of BGA, creates a powerful combination
and range of global sourcing and supply chain capabilities
that can benefit BGA clients,” said James C. Bly,
Jr., Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of BGA.
Mr. Bly added, “With the addition of CCS, BGA
can now offer a full range of global sourcing and procurement
services, unlike any other growth advisory and investment
banking firm which is today serving the middle market.
The impact of globalization and the related extensions
in supply chains requires many middle market companies
to re-think their procurement and supply chain positioning
and strategy.”
ABOUT BGA
Business Growth Alliance, LLC (BGA) (www.bgallc.net)
believes that family-owned and middle market businesses
are materially important contributors to the betterment
of regional economies and the social fabric within communities.
BGA has carefully selected and organized a National
Affiliate Network of seasoned, professional services
firms, which are dedicated to providing growth advisory
and investment banking services to middle market and
family-owned companies and their principals.
In addition to their core growth advisory and investment
banking services, BGA Member Firms collaborate to address
the Three Cornerstones that are needed by most successful
middle market companies: Growing Business Value, Managing
Capital and Liquidity, and Perfecting Governance and
Control. The ten current Affiliate Members of BGA include:
de Visscher & Co., Source Companies, LLC, FOCUS,
yet2.com, The Pursuit Group, Tenzing Consulting, Alliance
Cost Containment, Value Defined Middle Market, LLC,
Asher Training, and US China Business Solutions Inc.
ABOUT ACC & CCS
Alliance Cost Containment and Cost Containment Specialists
is a unique service firm based in Louisville, KY and
Dayton, OH that was formed in 1994 to help small and
mid-sized businesses reduce their procurement costs
on non-essential supplies and services. Since then,
ACC has reduced costs for over 1000 manufacturers,
service firms, and non-profits across the U.S. Today,
ACC has 48 elite professionals across the U.S and Mexico
reviewing and implementing cost savings for its valued
client base
For further information, please contact:
Gary Friedman President
Telephone 937-660-5368 ext. 10
Email: GFriedman@cost-containment.com
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