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How can we sell our casters and components so
inexpensively? Here
are a few reasons:
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Volume: We go through a lot of casters every month. This gives
us leveraging power with our suppliers so that we can get the best
prices available on the highest quality casters. Volume
also helps us with our shipping rates- the more we ship, the cheaper
it gets. We pass the value on to you, our customer, because
that cycles back and helps our volume.
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Location, Location, Location: We are located in northern Indiana
outside of Fort Wayne. It puts us in a centrally located place
that makes our shipping rates low since many suppliers and
manufacturers are right here in the Midwest with us.
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Low
Overhead. Some companies are ashamed to brag that they are a
family run business. We are proud of that fact because it makes our
business model much more cost effective and efficient. Furthermore,
our owner is a CPA and knows how to watch costs. We only
outsource when we have to and most everything from housekeeping to
website design and management is done in-house!
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Inventory Management: When your CEO is a CPA., you can bet
that inventory is managed pretty carefully. One of the biggest
costs of the industrial supply houses is that they have too much of
everything. You end up paying for that carrying cost and,
often, you end up buying what they have instead of what you need.
One of our company metrics is to turn inventory no less
than 20 times per year. Last year, it was over 25.
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It's
What We're All About! Being a family owned business, we are not
out just to get rich. We are working together as a family,
having some flexibility for family events, and enjoying being
self-employed. Having worked for major companies in public
accounting and private industry (controller, CFO, etc), our owner
was looking for more than just a paycheck. This is our life.
And its about having fun, being successful and making a reasonable
income.
Thank you for visiting. We guarantee that if you
try Apollo Caster once, you will be very happy with the prices and the
responsiveness.
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