With over 125 members this group has a long history of providing members excellent and timely credit intelligence needed to manage their accounts receivable portfolios risk. In addition to the basic services of reports and daily flash information, the group has 3 general membership meetings that include educational and current topic programs. Generally the group will also have a customer present to the group at its meetings. The primary focus is on the retail and wholesale grocery, drug, warehouse and mass merchandiser markets. The manufacturers in this group are the industry leaders in their category and are all top credit professionals.

This group consists of 50 of the nation’s leading suppliers of the Food Service industry. The group provides complete coverage of the food service business on distributors, restaurants as well as those retailers and clubs that sell food service pack items. With the majority of the food service distributors being private, it is very important to have other manufacturers’ experiences and credit insights for references. Meetings are very informative with an educational topic of interest and a full and participative account discussion.

As with all of our industry trade groups, networking is a very important element of the group activities. The National Poultry Processors Credit Group represents a very large market share of this industry and share their experience as it relates to customer issues.

Members in this group share information not only on the payment practices of their common customers but benchmark of key performance measures, best practices for invoicing & collection, organizational structure, dealing with outsourcing, scan base trading, hiring & training practices as well as many other operational issues key to the DSD business.

To be a member of this group your company must hold a membership in one of NGMC’s other industry trade credit groups. The members of the Koopman group meet monthly in the local Chicago area. The format of the meeting is strictly an accounts and methods discussion. The cost is a nominal annual fee and a small luncheon charge. This is a great fill-in meeting in between the general membership meetings.