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CORPORATE UNITED RECEIVES “2010 NEXT PRACTICE LEADERSHIP AWARD” FROM WEICHERT RELOCATION RESOURCES
CLEVELAND – June 22, 2010 – Corporate United, the nation’s largest group purchasing organization, has been honored with a “2010 Next Practice Leadership Award” from Weichert Relocation Resources Inc. (WRRI). WRRI, one of the world’s leading providers of relocation and assignment management solutions, named Corporate United an award-winner during its Client Strategy Summit in Boca Raton, Florida.
Next Practice Leadership Awards were established to honor select organizations and corporate relocation professionals for excellence in advancing mobile workforce management through innovation, leadership and strategic use of WRRI’s Next Practices. WRRI’s Next Practices represent the next generation of relocation and assignment solutions.
Corporate United was selected for its innovative approach to group purchasing and for working with WRRI to build synergy with procurement professionals and educate them about the unique nuances of purchasing workforce mobility services.
WRRI also honored Alcoa, Inc., BP, Fidelity Investments, GlaxoSmithKline, H.J. Heinz Company and U.S. Foodservice with 2010 Next Practice Leadership Awards.
“We are proud to be working with a number of clients, partners and colleagues who consistently look beyond the way things have always been done to improve and refine and rethink the workforce mobility practice,” said Aram Minnetian, President of WRRI. “For these innovators, we have created our Next Practice Leadership Awards, which recognize not only the breadth of their initiatives and the quantifiable results they’ve achieved, but also for their foresight in adopting Next Practices to drive performance within their organizations.”
“It is an extraordinary honor to be recognized by Weichert Relocation Resources as a ‘Next Practice Leadership’ company,” says Corporate United President Marc Rosen. “As an industry leader in relocation and assignment management services, we are proud to call WRRI our partner and accept this award with great pride.”
About Corporate United
Corporate United is a member-based organization whose mission is to advance the collective spend management efforts of its member companies; it achieves this by combining access to market-leading leveraged agreements and the application of category lifecycle management (CLM). Through its CLM process, Corporate United handles the ongoing management of the contracts and suppliers across its more than 25 pre-negotiated indirect agreements.
Corporate United is comprised of more than 160 member companies, spanning every industry sector, representing over $40 billion in aggregated spend. Founded in 1997, Corporate United is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. For more information, contact us at 440.895.0938 or visit www.corporateunited.com.
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