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The Retail Bakers of America has partnered with
the following companies to offer its members cost-saving programs:
• Energy Buyers
• Freight and Freight Administration
• Kinkos
• Rental Car
• Satellite Radio
• Message On-Hold
• Retail Bakers Industry
Search
• Business Insurance
• Health Insurance
• Merchant Card Processing
• Payroll Processing Service
• Travel Insurance
• E-Mail Marketing
This program is designed to save money in deregulated states.
The program joins bakery retailers with other energy users
to form a buying group to purchase gas and electricity at
competitive, unregulated prices. APPI’s engineers manage
the pool and perform the shopping process creating a no-hassle
way to make energy purchases. By combining the purchasing
power and usage of all members in a large pool, APPI can negotiate
reduced rates on your utilities.
APPI
Contact: Melissa Lewis
224 Phillip Morris Drive, Suite 402
Salisbury, MD 21804
Phone: (410) 749-5507
Toll Free:
(800) 520-6685
Fax: (410) 749-8769
E-mail: mlewis@appienergy.com
Website: www.appienergy.com
RBA is aware of the difficulties caused by higher fuel costs making it more expensive for you to ship your products. Therefore we have taken some steps to help. Our new Freight Services Member Benefit program uses bulk buying power to get you very low rates – and still uses only the top-rated motor carriers in the country.
Your freight costs could be cut from 10-30% using LMI's group freight rates.
- Rates are frozen to protect delivered pricing programs and prevent profit loss from unforeseen rate increases
- Fuel surcharges 65% lower than industry average (see attached data sheet)
- Carrier contracts are used to prevent future under-charge claims
- Most carrier service charges are waived or reduced (see attached data sheet)
- Only major, service-oriented carriers are used with Canadian and Mexico Coverage
- No contracts to sign
Contact us for a free no-obligation analysis and start saving on your shipping.
Logistics Management Group
Contact: Paton Sellers
3519 Pelham Road, Suite 105
Greenville, SC 29615
Phone: (864) 458-7867
Fax: (864) 458-8103
E-mail: psellers@lmiservices.com
Website: www.lmiservices.com
Kinko’s offers RBA members a special 10% discount on
printing costs. In addition to the discount on printing, RBA
members receive a 30% discount on all copying.
Kinkos
Contact: Retail Bakers of America
8400 Westpark Drive, 2nd Floor
McLean, VA 22102
Phone: (703) 610-9035
Toll Free:
(800) 638-0924
Fax: (703) 610-0239
E-mail: info@rbanet.com
Website: www.kinkos.com
RBA Members! Log in to the Members-Only area to get your Discount Code!
Special member savings are yours with Hertz. Use your Hertz
discount code whenever you rent a car to save up to 25%
depending on where and when you travel. Hertz operates in
over 150 countries with almost 1800 locations in the U.S.
alone.
Hertz
Call your local travel agent or Hertz
Contact: Rosa Benjamin
3800 Jefferson Davis Highway
Alexandria, VA 22305
Toll Free: (888) 318-8806
Fax: (877) 820-5093
E-mail: rbenjamin@hertz.com
Website: www.hertz.com
RBA Members! Log in to the Members-Only area to get your Discount Code!
Businesses have long recognized that the right music can positively
impact the customer experience. SIRIUSBusiness is the ultimate
“right music”. Broadcasting coast-to-coast, 24-hours
a day from state-of-the-art studios in the heart of NYC, SIRIUS
uses a fleet of high-power satellites to deliver 67 commercial-free
music channels, from just $24.95 per month. From a collection
of over 500,000 songs, the channels span a huge array of categories,
from pop to hip-hop; from blues to classical. Whatever genre
suits your business and pleases your customers, we’ve
got it. We invite you to sample the unique SIRIUS listening
experience. Visit www.sirius.com to hear streaming audio samples
of any of the SIRIUS music channels.
RBA members receive a $30 rebate on the equipment package
(making it just $209) and the standard $15 activation fee
is waived. For members currently paying Muzak for their radio
needs, SIRIUS presents the opportunity to save thousands of
dollars in a matter of just a few years. For members that
have never been able to justify the cost of business music,
now you can. For members in need of PA amplifiers, speakers,
etc., we stock anything you might need. Our sound equipment
prices are already the best in the market, but we'll take
an additional 10% off for RBA members. The savings on sound
equipment could add thousands more to your savings.
AMTC (SIRIUS/TelAdvantage)
Contact: Tom Hiatt
4091 AMTC Center Drive
Clearwater, FL 33764
Phone: (727) 531-3105
Toll Free:
(800) 741-2682 ext. 223
Fax: (727) 531-3965
E-mail: thiatt@amtc.com
Website: www.amtc.com
Businesses have begun to recognize a long-overlooked marketing
opportunity: in-store messaging. TelAdvantage lets you take
advantage of this captive audience. It's the world's most
recognized name in messaging products and services. You’ll
be relieved to know, however, that you don't have to pay a
premium to work with the best. As you may know, most messaging
vendors buy player equipment manufactured by other companies,
bundling it with message production services. Not only do
we produce the music and message content, we manufacture the
messaging equipment as well. This puts us in a unique position
to offer pricing our competitors can't touch. Frankly, our
competitors buy equipment for about the same prices we can
offer to your members!
For a one-time price of just $299.00* you will be provided
with a turnkey messaging solution: the iQueue III player,
along with a one year subscription to HoldDirect.com, the
message download site where you will log in to a private area
and have access to a huge variety of standard Retail Bakers
of America "brand" messages. Select the messages
you want to play, download them to a Secure Digital (SD) card,
and insert the card into your iQueue III player.
AMTC (SIRIUS/TelAdvantage)
Contact: Tom Hiatt
4091 AMTC Center Drive
Clearwater, FL 33764
Phone: (727) 531-3105
Toll Free: (800) 741-2682 ext. 223
Fax: (727) 531-3965
E-mail: thiatt@amtc.com
Website: www.amtc.com
The Retail Bakers Industry Search quickly cuts through
the clutter of all other search engines. With a Google™
style search, RBA members can easily find the products, services,
people, and endless information important to their bakeries.
Here’s how it works - the next time you are looking
for something specific within our industry, click on the Retail
Bakers Industry Search link on the home page of the RBA Web
site, www.rbanet.com. From there type what you are
looking for and let us find the answer. Our search tool will
search the Web sites of almost 3,500 sites just in our industry
and deliver the quality answers and solutions RBA members
have come to expect. Our Advanced Search feature lets you
search by member type in the event you would like to contact
only RBA member companies.
Multiview
Contact: Carol Frank
117 Oronoco Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (972) 402-7701
E-mail: cfrank@multiview.com
Website: www.multiview.com
Providing members with access to insurance programs designed specifically for retail bakeries, RBA's business insurance includes property, liability, business auto, and umbrella coverage as well as workers compensation. The program helps members find lower premiums through group purchasing power.
Trahin Miller Insurance Services (Member of the RBA)
Contact: Roger Trahin or Kasandra Rasnake
9449 Priority Way West Drive, Suite 110
Indianapolis, IN 46240-6420
Toll Free: (800) 925-1456
Fax: (317) 489-4401
E-mail: roger@trahinmiller.com
Website: www.trahinmiller.com
This program reduces the rising cost of health insurance for
RBA members. Benefits are offered nationwide and include
health insurance, life insurance, long-term care insurance,
cancer coverage, accident insurance, disability income, critical
illness, dental insurance, vision and more! These benefits
allow members to take advantage of better insurance coverage
at the lowest possible rates for individuals, families, groups
and businesses. Long-term care and life insurance are offered
with savings up to 40% for RBA members and associates.
Members who currently purchase their own insurance,
and who offer health insurance coverage for their
employees, need to take a moment to compare their existing
plan to a plan that utilizes the RBA/AHP buying power. All
national ‘A’ rated name brand insurance companies
are available to you. Members can receive enhanced benefits
for themselves, their families, and their employees-both full
and part-time! Programs are comprehensive and all-inclusive
and include co pays, choice of deductibles, routine care and
prescription drug coverage and the new availability of Health
Savings Accounts.
RBA members
between the ages of 45-75 should also inquire about the new comprehensive
long-term care insurance. All policies include home health
care, assisted living, and nursing home care. RBA/AHP offers
members access to every long-term care insurance company on
a national basis with savings that cannot be obtained on your
own. Medicare does not cover or pay for long-term care services!
Ask now! Don’t be left behind on this most valuable
retirement vehicle.
RBA life insurance programs include term life
insurance, universal life insurance, whole life insurance,
key person, and buy-sell insurance and more. People who smoke,
have diabetes, are overweight or have other high risk medical
conditions can be helped many times with preferred rates.
As a member benefit, we will compare your current rates and
95% of the time we guarantee better coverage and lower costs.
PLEASE NOTE: AHP is unable to offer coverage in
Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. Limited options are available for those in New Jersey and New York.
Association Health Programs
12721 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 100
Overland Park, KS 66213
Phone: (913) 341-2868
Toll Free: (888) 450-3040
Fax: (913) 341-2803
E-mail: help@associationpros.com
Website: www.associationpros.com
Members-Quote:
www.RBA.miquotes.com
The RBA Merchant Card Processing Program provides members
with access to a provider willing to design a program to meet
your specific needs. The program offers online statements
and reporting, affordable and functional hardware options,
wide-ranging processing solutions, high-speed processing and
knowledgeable sales and service staff to assist all members.
• Credit and Debit – Growing
numbers of consumers are choosing electronic payment methods
in place of cash or check. By accepting credit and debit cards,
you provide your customers with greater flexibility in paying
for their purchases.
• Check Conversion – Check conversion
reduces fraud risk, transaction costs and speeds access to
sales funds by converting paper checks to electronic images
and processing them like credit card transactions at the point
of sale.
• Gift and Loyalty Card Programs – Gift
cards are quickly becoming the number one gift-giving idea.
Gift card technology prevents fraud, allows better sales and
credit tracking with detailed reporting eliminating the burdensome
tasks of manual accounting. Selling gift cards directs customer’s
cash to your bottom line even before you deliver a product
or service. This popular payment option improves brand awareness
and acts as a constant advertisement in your customer’s
wallet.
Element Payment Services
Contact: Nicholas Fox
14415 S. 50th Street, Suite 200
Phoenix, AZ 85044
Phone: (480) 628-2419
Toll Free:
(866) 435-3636
Fax: (888) 349-8288
E-mail: nfox@elementps.com
Website: www.elementps.com
Paychex makes automated payroll efficient and cost-effective
for organizations nationwide. Its payroll services provide
a comprehensive business solution that is accurate, confidential
and affordable. RBA members can eliminate the time-consuming
chore of payroll administration to concentrate more on the
business. Call today for information. RBA members receive
15% off the payroll processing and select HR services setup
fees!
Paychex:
• Includes standard payroll checks, journals, earning
statements, department summaries and quarterly and year-end
reports.
• Taypay® consists of federal, state, and most local
payroll tax computation and filing, processing and deposits,
preparation of electronic filing, tax summary reports, state
and federal notifications, and quarterly unemployment notices.
• Employee pay options give members the benefits of
single debit payroll while offering payroll delivery options
that include signed checks and direct deposit.
• New hire reporting meets federal and state reporting
requirements about newly hired and rehired employees.
• Paycheck Human Resources Services help administer
everyday HR matters, including workers’ compensation
services and retirement plan administration.
Paychex
Contact: Jennifer Taylor
3060 Williams Drive, Suite 200
Fairfax, VA 22031
Phone: (703) 698-6910, ext. 27050 or (571) 245-7121
Fax: (877) 529-3514
E-mail: jvtaylor@paychex.com
Website: www.paychex.com
Travel Guard offers a number of travel insurance plans, including trip cancellation, trip interruption, trip and baggage delay, missed connection, baggage and person effects, emergency medical transportation, car rental collision, job loss coverage and more!
Coverage Information
Travel Guard
World Service Center: (800) 826-1300
Website: www.travelguard.com
Email Marketing by Constant Contact® is the easy, effective, and highly affordable way to get your message out to your customers—and build strong, successful, and lasting relationships with them. You'll create high-impact email newsletters and promotions in minutes, no technical expertise necessary. With more than 300 easily-customized templates, a simple point-and-click tool, and award-winning free customer support, you can create professional, compelling messages your audience will act on. And we make it easy for you to manage your contact lists, sign up website visitors, track your clicks and open rates, and send automated communications to new subscribers.
RBA Members receive a member discount when they sign up!
Constant Contact
Contact: Liane Harrington
Phone: (866) 424-5404 or (800) 221-2701
Fax: (877) 529-3514
E-mail: lharrington@constantcontact.com
Website: www.constantcontact.com
RBA Members! Log in to the Members-Only area to start your 60-day FREE trial account.
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