Partner profile: Plumbing World

Your Team in Black

Real service, better support, good stock levels, NZ owned and our profits stay in NZ and in the industry. Just five of the reasons to shop with Plumbing World. Check out this page to find all the reasons: www.plumbingworld.co.nz/30reasons

PLATINUM PARTNERSHIP

Although 2020 hasn’t gone as anyone would have planned, Plumbing World is pleased to be moving forward on a number of our initiatives:

pwGO: In 2019 we launched our pwGO App for on-the-go ordering. Then during lockdown we pushed our pwGO website LIVE. Both allow for a safer, more efficient way to order your products from Plumbing World. It lets your tradies be more effective during their working day by staying onsite to get the job done, with their product requirements getting delivered to them. For more info visit: www.pwgo.co.nz New Kingsland branch: Our Grey Lynn branch in Auckland has relocated to bigger and better premises in Kingsland. June 2020 was the opening of our new Kingsland branch, a strategically located site that NZPM purchased last year. If you’ve had the opportunity to visit both sites, we are sure you’re pleased with the vastly improved layout, presentation and parking that Kingsland offers, and we expect this more modern, efficient style of branch will be progressively rolled out during future branch upgrades. Young Plumber of the Year: It was disappointing to have to postpone our successful YPOTY competition until 2021. However, with Alert Levels how they were during what would have been the branch events, this was inevitable and beyond our control. This has allowed for valuable

planning time, and we are all set for 2021. Follow up on Facebook and Instagram for updates: • www.facebook.com/ youngplumbersclubnz/ • www.instagram.com/

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Our Young Plumbers Club is well supported and each branch will be hosting events throughout the remainder of 2020 to keep our young plumbers educated, feeling well supported and having some fun.

Supporting the future of the industry: We were pleased to support a mini version of the Trade Tour at selected schools throughout Auckland, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty during August and September. This message is all about getting a trade and to help future proof our industry by encouraging more school leavers to get excited about entering a trade and signing up for an apprenticeship.

Charity and community support: Plumbing World is proud to support Eat Up New Zealand—a registered charity that provides lunches to disadvantaged Kiwi school kids, so they can grow, learn and succeed and maybe one day enjoy the benefits of joining a great industry like ours. Our Support staff in Palmerston North recently spent an hour of their time making 1,600 sandwiches, which will provide 16 schools with 3 weeks’ worth of sandwiches for their school freezer (then toasted) for needy children. We are also pleased to once again be supporting three cancer charities: Bowel Cancer NZ, Gynaecological Cancer Foundation and Prostate Cancer Foundation of NZ. During July we had a good number of PW support staff doing Dry July and raising over $2,000. Plus, we will be supporting Blue September at all our sites and raising valuable funds for Prostate Cancer NZ.

Proudly supporting Eat Up New Zealand.

Introduction of a new brand: TIVA is a new and exclusive ‘own brand’ from Plumbing World, delivering reliable and quality everyday trade items to get the job done. Keep a look out for the growing range of TIVA products at your local branch.

We truly understand this year is not what any of us expected and there is still lots of uncertainty in the world and around NZ. However, what we are certain of is our dedication to all our customers to ensure you can be successful in your business. We will do this by delivering to you exceptional customer service, fully stocked branches, competitive prices—and we aim to make it super easy for you to do business with us.

VANTAGE

The newVantage range from Greens is suitable for all pressures and features the patented FloBOOST® and RainBoost® shower technologies to ensure a shower as perfect as a good nights sleep down to 10kPa. A donation from every sale of Greens Vantage products goes towards plumbing apprenticeship scholarships.

Greens Tapware - designed and engineered in NZ since 1935 – fostering the plumbing industry today for a bright future tomorrow.

www.greenstapware.com