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The NZ Bar App is powered by CSC Buying Group. The Bar Association have been working with CSC for several years now. You might still remember the NZ Bar discount card. We thought it would be the perfect time for some background about CSC, where it all started and how the business has evolved over the years.

CSC Buying Group started in Craig Johnson's garage in Cambridge back in 2002. Craig was talking with some of his chef colleagues and couldn’t understand why one of the group was buying coffee for $18 a tin and the same coffee was being purchased by another for $28? He thought there must be a better way to share ideas, even the playing field with suppliers and somehow create a business. One of the chefs said, “Well I don’t want to do it,“ but Craig said, “Well I think I do!” and this was the genesis of CSC Buying Group now 20 years ago!

The first supply contracts were exclusively for food suppliers such as Bidfood, Anchor Milk and Quality Bakers bread. There were 16 kitchens in the group to start with and the buying group, although small, always had good cash flow.

After a number of years, the chefs in the group started asking if there would be other non-food contracts added, and Craig went about adding suppliers such as Bunnings, Noel Leeming, and Beaurepaires.

A website was set up - www.csc.org.nz with free membership as it still is today.

Our CSC members asked for more; businesses wanted to offer their staff and members with exclusive discounts from leading kiwi retailers. In 2010 the humble discount card was born. Our graphic designer Sara Cameron started creating customised discount cards with a selection of discounts from the likes of Noel Leeming, Guthrie Bowron, Repco, Bunnings, OfficeMax, Dulux, and Beaurepaires with their branding and our discounts. The first one was Master Painters.

Today we have over 30 discounts to choose from! In 2016 we noticed a shift from discount cards to a demand for a digital discount card. This sparked another idea in Craig's mind. CSC teamed up with an app developer and began developing our own CSC Member App and customised branded apps for a range of organisations.

2019 the brand Perk was launched, and we began offering Perk to our customers with over 25 discounts from our suppliers in the Apps.

In 2021 a significant rebranding exercise was undertaken and as a result what we knew as Perk was rebranded as 1Team.

1Team was created to focus on member and employee benefit programs to increase wellbeing in the workplace, improve culture and is now a communication tool for many businesses throughout New Zealand.

1Team is now New Zealand’s leading employee and member benefits program provider, creating apps with your brand and our perks.

Fast forward to 2022 and the CSC Buying Group's philosophy is still the same: to be the buyer’s friend, with the bulk of the benefit going to the members that they serve.

We are proud of our long association with New Zealand Bar Association | Ngā Ahorangi Motuhake o te Ture, and we look forward to continuing to provide value for its members now and into the future.

Does $1000 off at Noel Leeming sound good? In October over 60 people saved more than $1,000 on appliances & technology purchases using 1Team's benefits apps.

Benefit partners include:

LexisNexis

Marsh

MAS

The Private Office

Office Max

ANZ

Noel Leeming

E-Discovery

Equip

Legal Accounting Bureau

Moore Markhams

Nuance

OP Creative

Rocketspark

Team Network IT

VLex

Bill Simple

Base 2 Managed IT

Teleflora

Warehouse Stationery

Active Adventures

Allianz Travel Insurance

Avis

Away to Go

Budget

Ezi car rentals

Hertz

Heritage Hotels

Koru Club

Millennium Hotels

Urbantics

Armstrong Security

Big Save Furniture

Bunnings

Carters

Coffee Club

Dulux

Elite Energy

Fred Coffee

Give Plants

Guthrie Bowron

Habit Health

Hirepool

Ideal Electrical

Lorna Jane

Euro Vintage

Mico Plumbing

Pita Pit

Placemakers

Planet Wine

Torpedo7

Tower

Turfrey

Technological

Vivo

Beaurepaires

BMW

Gruzo Tyres

Kiwi Fuelcards

Mercedes

Pit Stop

Repco

As a member of The Bar Association you get so many amazing benefits.

Download the NZ Bar member app to start saving.

Login to the Bar Association website and look under personal details for your member number or email nzbar@nzbar.org.nz for assistance.