Grand Union Co. uses its extensive commodity broking and management consultancy skills to reduce costs for commercial & industrial companies and charities. Operated in a regulated fashion it is typically paid out of the savings or cost avoidance it brings to its customers.
Water company customer service has been reduced poor billing and barely trained call centre staff reluctant to answer the phone.
- Grand Union provides water supply at a discount to default rate but with one-to-one service and a 16/5 help desk.
- In England and Scotland, Grand Union is paid out of savings it generates for clients
- Our transparent water commission ranges from 0.5% to 1.5% of annual water spend (depending on service required and volume).
Certain Savings Price Promise
If your water retailer is still the water company that took over your sites(s) in April 2017, we will arrange the same water supply at a better price and provide a 16 hour a day, 5 days a week support, straight through to a trained account manager you will come to know as a valued partner. We promise no call centre, no recorded message, no pressing 9 to hear the options again…
- Grand Union Co. provides electricity & gas supply at the proven best price available on any given day and with one-to-one service.
- We are active in all liberalised energy markets of Europe and the USA from our offices in London, Zug and Virginia.
- Our transparent energy commission is (£0.0005 to £0.0025 per KWh) depending on service level and consumption volume.
- Patriot Tendering: if your company prefers to procure from “home-country” suppliers, we run British Owned Only, French Owned Only, US Owned Only etc. tenders on client instruction.
Certain Savings Price Promise
In 80% of cases WE WILL HALVE the commission fee of your existing energy advisor for procurement services. As regards supply of electricity and gas, we will supply the same electrons and gas molecules at the proven best price available and provide 16 hour a day, 5 days a week support straight through to a trained account manager you will come to know as a valued partner. We promise no call centre, no recorded message, no pressing 9 to hear the options again…
Grand Union expanded into Lease Car portfolio management in 2020, bringing the Meltebeke Motor brand into the company.
With some strategic hiring and training, our utilities back office was expanded to include Lease Cars and this economy of scale means our company now manages Lease Car portfolios, vehicle acquisition and disposal, and does so at a fraction of the cost of the supposed specialists in the market.
Certain Savings Price Promise
If we cannot beat the fee you pay to your current third-party lease car portfolio management company – for the same service level – we do not expect your business. We provide premium Lease Car Portfolio Management services with 16 hour a day, 5 days a week support straight thru to a trained account manager you will come to know as a valued partner. We promise no call centre, no recorded message, no pressing 9 to hear the options again…
Too many banks have become merely providers of portals and call centre service with staff who have no idea of their customer’s business. Grand Union’s partnership with Western Union Business Solutions aims to build relationships with businesses in order to support their Foreign Exchange and Payment Solutions requirements.
Where Grand Union Co. understands commodities, procurement and the business of manufacturing and merchant trading companies, Western Union understands Foreign Exchange and Payment Solutions.
The combination of the flows and the expertise of both companies makes for consistently competitive exchange rates, more cost-effective payment of invoices and better day to day service which can be via “old-school”, person to person service or indeed via state-of-the-art API (Automated Programmable Interface) to SAP and other systems.
- At Grand Union & Western Union Business Solutions there are no upfront financial obligations and costs are transparent meaning you know how much you much money you will be transferring and receiving
- Western Union Business Solutions operate a significant global footprint across 200 countries and territories with 60+ counterparty bank relationships providing access to 130+ payable currencies. This means companies spend less time managing their international financial transactions and more time growing their businesses.
- With Grand Union & Western Union Business Solutions there is no cost or obligation to have a conversation or open an account. As a currency provider they want to get to know your business thoroughly before supporting with a strategy. This will help them to assess what kind of products will work well for you.
- During discussions, Western Union Business Solutions can help analyse your business which gives comparative pricing and highlight potential cost savings. Additionally, with their wide range of Foreign Exchange services, currency analysis and decision support tools like a Daily Market Update and Monthly Currency Outlook, they can give businesses more transparency and control over their foreign exchange and international payments
- Thus, Western Union Business Solutions and their highly qualified team of currency experts can provide a service tailored specifically to the needs of international businesses in order to help protect the profits from currency fluctuations, with a range of hedging tools and strategies.*
- Depending on your company’s scale, there may be a significant amount of savings that you could achieve with the help of a mitigation and/or hedging strategy that supports your business’s forex and international payments needs, even during times of high volatility.
*With any hedging tool, there are associated risks. Your foreign exchange provider should explain what these are, so your decision-making is informed, and you are confident and comfortable with the choices you make. It may be that your business is not suitable for hedging products offered by Western Union Business Solutions.
Grand Union Co. Certain Savings Price Promise
It is likely our partnership with Western Union Business Solutions can benefit you as you work with them to develop an FX mitigation and/or hedging strategy that suits your business goals. In return, you can feel confident as you manage currency fluctuations, thus, helping you to manage your risks and grow your bottom-line.
Corporation Tax in the European Union is prohibitively expensive; by way of example France and Germany currently at circa 32%. Given the political landscape and the level of debt, the average Corporation Tax rate of the 27-country bloc is likely to hold or even rise further.
Grand Union Co. has presence in two low tax countries within Europe but outside the EU – UK and Switzerland – both of which have trade agreements in place providing a way to trade with the EU and avoid its bloated tax regime. To that end we provide both relocation services and expert tax consultancy.
We know the business landscape in UK and Canton Zug Switzerland at first hand, having client relocations and representative office set ups under our belt. Our services in these respects are legal, confidential, and handled personally by our founder, Peter Sceats (petersceats.net).
London is already known as the financial centre of Europe and is made even more competitive by Brexit and the following FTA. Zug Switzerland is less well known but its appeal is commercially compelling; Johnson & Johnson, Anhauser Busch, Coca-Cola, Roche, Novatis, Mylan, General Dynamics, Alphabet/Google, PepsiCo, Siemens, ABB, BP, Kazatomprom all have a base in Canton Zug, the list of companies that use Switzerland, and in particular Canton Zug, goes on and on…
Certain Savings Price Promise
While the corporation tax differential between the UK and Zug Switzerland versus Germany and France, for example, remain circa 12% and 20% respectively, the potential for tax efficiency savings is clear.
As regards representative office provision, a base in the heart of London or in Zug Switzerland, our fees are supplied on a transparent and competitive “cost plus” basis. We promise to beat all competition in this space on a like for like basis.