Mintec was founded in 1982  is the principal independent source of pricing information for commodities and raw materials. Mintec has a suite of unique procurement tools and training courses all designed to assist supply chain professionals in their daily  tasks of reporting, analysing and interpreting market information. Mintec helps sales and purchasing professionals to support their commodity decisions, by improving efficiency, minimising  commodity  risk and ultimately gaining a commercial advantage.

 

Lead generation

As part of its growth strategy, Mintec wished to identify new data sources in the food sector by finding traders, producers and industry experts who would be willing to contribute a range of price series, in order tosupport existing indices and to create new and unique Mintec benchmarking indices.

Nick Peksa, Business Development Director said “We collate and provide price information across an extremely diverse set of markets, ranging from packaging to peanuts. As a customer focused business our clients drive demand and assess what is seen as high value to their organisation. It was important for us to work with a partner who recognised these factors and could effectively and professionally communicate the value of Mintec and our requirements, to a number of potential information partners, through a targeted programme. We chose Axiall because we had worked with them in the past and were satisfied they met our criteria. The programme has been highly successful, exceeding all initial targets we had established. We certainly intend to continue our work with Axiall and can recommend their services wholeheartedly”

Training

As a rapidly growing company Mintec has many new employees who all have an increasing requirement to regularly communicate with clients and business partners. They had identified a need to improve the communication skills of a number of team members and asked Axiall to provide a training course to address this requirement.

Nick Peksa, Business Development Director said “We had already developed a successful relationship with Axiall and asked them to design and deliver an ‘Effective Communications’ course for a number of our staff. Axiall worked closely with us to ensure that the course content was appropriate and would achieve our aims. The resulting course has proved succesful and received extremely positive feedback from the participants. They also delivered participation evaluation feedback that enabled us to see how our people rated the course and what they said about it. We will certainly consider Axiall when looking at further courses”